Hi guys. If you're using game maker studio 2, hear this out. I've made a project template that helps with making a new project. Even if you're not making a new project, it has some beneficial features. THIS IS FOR FREE. I want to help anyone using game maker studio 2 to make better games and have a better time.

I am a video game developer and I have used game maker for more than 4 years. I make a lot of games and it always takes a long time just to get the basic systems of the game going. These systems include:

• Main Menu
• Pause Menu
• Saving
• GUI
• GUI Tools such as buttons
• Collisions
• etc

After spending a lot of time redoing the same thing for different projects, I decided to make a template that I could use for most of my projects. With this template, I can just start working on the mechanics of the game and have a better time. 

So here is the template project that could be used for many many new projects, or the ones that already exist.

Here's a link to download page: https://mysterystudio.itch.io/game-maker-studio-2-new-project-template

This Template includes:

Delta Timing variables

• If you are not using Delta Time in your game... what are you doing? Delta Time is a very important part of making the game fair. 
• Simple DT and DT_Fixed variables to use across the project
• You can even use this to make slow motion effects! :D

Global Input variables

• Keyboard inputs
• Xbox inputs

Macro and global variables:

• Aspect ratio and resolution of the game
• Global variables to refer to layers easier

GUI

• States: // You can add as many states as you'd like. Here are a few:
  • Main Menu
  • Normal level
  • Pause Menu: // Add to pause menu with only changing a few variables in its state script.
• Tools such as buttons:
  • Buttons that can be interacted with and modified

Saving

• Save and load objects of a level.
• This system uses JSON which means, it can be scaled to larger projects a lot easier. 

Collision

• Solid collision script
• Tile collision script: I personally use tile collision for collisions in my games.

Tiles

• Check, place and remove index of a tileset with scripts
• A wall tileset with auto tiling
• Collision tileset

Nine slice drawing:

• draw rectangles based on 9x9 sprites

oGame

• one persistent object that controls the game

oLevel

• one object to control the level
• Place solid tiles on wall tiles

Template Room

• A room with layers and common objects:
  • Background tile layer
  • Middleground tile layer
  • Foreground tile layer
  • GUI layer
  • Camera Layer

Camera Object

• One camera to be used anywhere in the game
• Modify this camera with simple variables provided

Here's a link to download page: https://mysterystudio.itch.io/game-maker-studio-2-new-project-template

I hope you'd find this helpful.

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