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GameMaker Cookbook

You're reading from   GameMaker Cookbook Over 50 hands-on recipes to help you build exhilarating games using the robust GameMaker system

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399849
Length 212 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Game Plan – Creating Basic Gameplay FREE CHAPTER 2. It's Under Control – Exploring Various Control Schemes 3. Let's Move It – Advanced Movement and Layout 4. Let's Get Physical – Using GameMaker's Physics System 5. Now Hear This! – Music and Sound Effects 6. It's All GUI! - Creating Graphical User Interface and Menus 7. Saving the Day – Saving Game Data 8. Light 'em up! – Enhancing Your Game with Lighting Techniques 9. Particle Man, Particle Man – Adding Polish to Your Game with Visual Effects and Particles 10. Hello, World – Creating New Dimensions of Play Through Networking Index

Using slow motion

John Woo had it right: slow motion makes things look way cooler. Well, as far as action goes, anyway. How many games since the late 90s have made use of slow motion in one way or another? It often comes in the form of some kind of power up or usage meter, but it's there and it's a lot of fun. Do you want to add slow motion to your game? Let's take a look at one way in which you can accomplish this using GameMaker.

Getting ready

To make things simpler, we'll continue to use the project file from the two previous recipes. In addition to this, who doesn't want to see explosions in slow motion? You won't need to create any new objects here, but we'll be working with obj_control.

How to do it...

  1. In the Create event of obj_control, add the following code:
    globalvar timeSpeed;
    globalvar slowMo;
    slowMo = false;
    timeSpeed = 1;
  2. In the Step event, add the following code before the first line of code:
    room_speed = round(60*timeSpeed);
  3. In the same code block...
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