Apparently Cox upgraded my speed without me realizing it. It's almost double what I originally had at this apartment complex. O.o

Job and Stuff

I'm currently employed for a Casino Games company. Can't talk about it much, but it's awesome! Took a year and a half to finally get a job in the industry after college.

Updating Old Projects

I'll be upgrading a bunch of my old projects to Studio in the next few weeks as requested by a few users via PM. Sorry I didn't check my 64D Mail until today. Hehe.

Lots to do. Anyone have a cloning machine? I need to clone like fifty of myself to get all my work done in relatively short time.

Hey guys,

I managed to port gmLua to Game Maker 8.1 using GMAPI 0.0.7. I'd like to share it with all of you: gmLua81!!

Please note: You should NOT use this DLL with Game Maker 8.0 or less. It is ONLY compatible with 8.1.

In other news...

Lua Framework Teaser

I'm still working on my lua framework project. It'll allow you to develop awesome User Interfaces for your game maker projects with minimal impact on performance as opposed to scripting it all in GM. The best part? You can embed your scripts in a DLL so that no one can touchie! I'm still working on it, but I plan to have a sample project ready in the next few weeks as well.

- DF81

Greetings guys.

I haven't blogged in a while, but I'd like everyone to know that I have solved the infamous (well, for me at least) Texture Flicker problem in Game Maker 8.0.

I've been writing a Lua framework for about 2 weeks after picking back up the project from a year ago after I abandoned it and successfully translated it into about 98% Lua. The game now just attaches to the DLL and loads the primary lua file that does all the work. It's pretty awesome.

I've had this flicker problem with anything I drew for the longest time - ever since I started calling draw functions from the GMAPI-enabled DLL. It would randomly happen every 5-10 seconds or so.

Drove me insane! Regardless, I discovered that turning off automatic drawing (set_automatic_draw) and then setting an alarm to draw every frame instead of the draw event and then calling screen_refresh() at then end of that event eliminates this rendering problem all together!

I wasn't relying on views since my lua engine handles all of the placement of "objects" (which are now 100% tables in lua, not objects at all in GML), so this method works well for me!



Just wanted to post because I've finally defeated it! :D


I'm now officially working on a Tactical RPG as well.

There you have it folks.

And now for a taste of things to come. (Youtube link - Song)

Oooh... What's this?


Do not fear, friends. The time for you all to get destroyed by monsters that live in your pockets will soon be upon us.

Minecraft - District of Limberry Update

This is the new layout of Gregg's Place. 'A' is Bethla Garrison (Upper Rune) and B is the shiny new Sky Castle. While not actually part of Rune, it's still relatively impressive. If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend that you take a good look around.

View from the top of the Sky Castle looking down at Bethla Garrison at Night.



-DF81