damimp

Creating video tutorials is a first for me. But I have a three-part series on creating a dialogue system featuring typing out text, portraits, names, and branching dialogue!

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I wanted to create a system that takes advantage of some of the relatively newer useful features added to GameMaker, like structs and methods, and this was the result.

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I'm considering making a fourth extra part to cover some slightly less fundamental features to a dialogue system, like text effects, custom actions, callbacks when the textbox closes, and other things along those lines. I'm also interested in talking about different ways to format and store dialogue data, but I'm not certain i

So after some embarrassing unsuccessful attempts to beat the final boss with Acrid, I’ve noticed that Acrid’s poison doesn’t seem to make your items return during the final phase, meaning you get way less items back over time than other characters.

Trying to finish the whole phase with only fireworks ain’t fun.

Is this intentional, or a bug, or maybe I just did something wrong?