My Bullet Hell Game I made in Game Maker 8 pro

[MrGigaflare]

How do you make bullet patterns? i'm new with GM and i don't have the smallest idea

[sirmastercombat]

@MrGigaflare There are several ways to make patterns, in my case, I made several orbs that shoot towards the boss and move in a orbit for a set amount of time before changing patterns and direction of orbit and distance from boss.

[MrGigaflare]

@sirmastercombat Any tutorials? i'm afraid i don't fully get it, i'm a sprite/pixel artist, so i just need to get the game mechanics going to complete my game, any help would be awesome, and i could credit you of course

[sirmastercombat]

@MrGigaflare Well, I'll try to make a tutorial then.

[sirmastercombat]

I'm going to audio replace this soon. Don't worry, it'll be a good song to replace with.

[MaxArceus]

your character is... text?

[sirmastercombat]

@MaxArceus Yellow dot.

[MaxArceus]

@sirmastercombat ahh, I didn't see it untill I switched to hd and full screen, ok

[sirmastercombat]

@MaxArceus Well, it is a small dot. :P

[MaxArceus]

@sirmastercombat But why is the player actually just a dot?

[sirmastercombat]

@MaxArceus Does it look like I have a Pixel artist at the time?

[MaxArceus]

@sirmastercombat No but I mean, you could have just used a picture from internet. Or make it yourself just use a small mask of course.

[sirmastercombat]

@MaxArceus Well, it was temporary. I do have a new (but not so good) player sprite.

[MaxArceus]

@sirmastercombat ok

[sirmastercombat]

@MaxArceus I drew myself.

[graymic]

What are the algorithm they use in bullet hells?

or is it just some vector say, x , y of the sprites position +1 to each new position and direction?

[sirmastercombat]

@graymic All depends on the game. in my case, I just used orbit calculation and jump to for main orb movemnt. Bullets just are creating using create moving (which shoot from a orb to the boss and passthrough, too lazy to actully make it come out of the boss).

[MadxGam3r]

Song fits in perfectly, This game - GOTY

[sirmastercombat]

@MadxGam3r Not really, it's just one boss, it's not that great.... Besides, some other games that fit into this (Bullet Hell) genre are better mine.

[Devzilla98]

This is very interesting... cool!

I was just wondering how to make multiple objects in orbit around another object.

Thanks!

[martiigr5]

this is great, I'm trying to find a tutorial how you make these but I can't find anyone.

can you maybe make one how you made this??

[sirmastercombat]

@martiigr5 Well, the way I did it here was that I made 8 orbs that orbit around the boss (just google for some orbit code), they shoot bullet objects that towards the boss and passing through the boss, going through the other side of the boss, creating the patterns. However, that method is not what you may not want, so instead, you might want to use a time-line to shoot each bullet at a specific angle and time to create more unique patterns.

[martiigr5]

@sirmastercombat

oohh I see, well than I will try it over and over and see if I can find a tutorial, thank you for explaning to me

[00kabecao00]

Source code? *.*

[sirmastercombat]

@00kabecao00 Which parts do you need?

[sirmastercombat]

@happytreefriendssuck Well I borrowed some lines from here gmc . yoyogames . com/index . php?showtopic=493348

Remove the spaces around the dots

[kakashisfriend]

Good job on your game, and may I ask what the name of the song is?

[sirmastercombat]

@kakashisfriend "My little world" by celldweller (the origional though, I can't remeber the name of the remix I used)

[sirmastercombat]

@4glados I took a boss sprite form there, the bullets are from some website I found on google. Also the patterns are coded unusually.