u/SpaghettiEngine

Hi all. Is there anywhere in London that I can go to try out different mechanical keyboards so I can get a feel for which ones I like?

If anyone is willing to take a look and offer any feedback or advice on how I could improve my page, I'd very much appreciate it. Thanks!

Hi everyone! Please check out the first trailer for my game, Spectrakin! I have been putting every second of free time into the game over the last 6+ months and I'm finally ready (although nervous) to start showing it publicly! Please let me know if you have any feedback. You can learn more about the game on my Kickstarter page:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chronicorbit/spectrakin-a-monster-taming-rpg

Please also consider following the game on Kickstarter by pressing the "Notify my on launch" button as it really helps me out. ☺️

When I change a variable definition on an instance in the room editor via the Variables panel (e.g. changing path_to_follow from path_a to path_b), sometimes GM appends the new entry to the .yy file rather than replacing the old one. The result is the instance ends up with two entries for the same variable in the raw JSON:

{ "propertyId": "path_to_follow", "value": "path_a" },

{ "propertyId": "path_to_follow", "value": "path_b" }.

The IDE's Variables panel only shows one value (path_b), so it looks correct, but at runtime the incorrect entry wins. In my case an instance had pa_woodland_loop in the Variables panel and this was listed as the last entry in the .yy, but there was also a stale pa_mon_town_chase as the first, so the monster was being teleported to the wrong path on room load. Looked like it was just vanishing.

I only caught it by opening the .yy directly. I then inspected a few other instances of various objects and noticed the same issue in some of them. Has anyone else run into this? Is there a workflow that causes it (e.g. changing overrides while the room is open in a certain state)? Is this a GM bug? I'm not on the latest version so, if so, it's possible it's been fixed already.

IDE v2024.14.2.213, Runtime v2024.14.2.256.

Here is a full dump of the instance's json from the .yy:

{"$GMRInstance":"v4","%Name":"inst_2400DAD2","colour":4294967295,"frozen":false,"hasCreationCode":false,"ignore":false,"imageIndex":2,"imageSpeed":0.0,"inheritCode":false,"inheritedItemId":null,"inheritItemSettings":false,"isDnd":false,"name":"inst_2400DAD2","objectId":{"name":"obj_monster","path":"objects/obj_monster/obj_monster.yy",},"properties":[ {"$GMOverriddenProperty":"v1","%Name":"","name":"","objectId":{"name":"par_npc","path":"objects/par_npc/par_npc.yy",},"propertyId":{"name":"path_to_follow","path":"objects/par_npc/par_npc.yy",},"resource":{"name":"pa_mon_town_chase","path":"paths/pa_mon_town_chase/pa_mon_town_chase.yy",},"resourceType":"GMOverriddenProperty","resourceVersion":"2.0","value":"pa_mon_town_chase",}, {"$GMOverriddenProperty":"v1","%Name":"","name":"","objectId":{"name":"par_npc","path":"objects/par_npc/par_npc.yy",},"propertyId":{"name":"path_stagger_tiles","path":"objects/par_npc/par_npc.yy",},"resourceType":"GMOverriddenProperty","resourceVersion":"2.0","value":"4",}, {"$GMOverriddenProperty":"v1","%Name":"","name":"","objectId":{"name":"par_npc","path":"objects/par_npc/par_npc.yy",},"propertyId":{"name":"path_to_follow","path":"objects/par_npc/par_npc.yy",},"resourceType":"GMOverriddenProperty","resourceVersion":"2.0","value":"pa_woodland_loop",}, ],"resourceType":"GMRInstance","resourceVersion":"2.0","rotation":0.0,"scaleX":1.0,"scaleY":1.0,"x":1456.0,"y":176.0,},

I launched my Steam page a couple days ago, don't even have a trailer yet. I was super nervous showing my game off for the first time, but getting these first 100 wishlists has made me so happy I did it.

Here's to the next 100!