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Grog
@grogdev.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 Game Dev ☆ Pixel Artist ☆ Streamer
Developing Brew Breaker Agnes & Sprite Drop
「 discord.gg/hfQafXM / http://twitch.tv/grogdev 」
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A meme screenshot of Symphony of the Night with a textbox - Dracula: What is a struct? A miserable little pile of variables.
October 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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I don't care if I end up seeing this screenshot a million times, what great news
September 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
grogdev.bsky.social
And it keeps going 😂
August 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Already so relatable 😅
August 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Outside of regions, I've started using scripts to store this separately, named in the format of __object_name_<code block>.

This let's me know that these functions are only to be called in the context of the object it's prefixed with, and it looks nice when using ctrl+t to find the object
August 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
grogdev.bsky.social
So @pixelatedpope.bsky.social and I found out what happens when you accidentally pass a struct as an array index in GameMaker
August 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Ooh gimme that good stuff
August 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
grogdev.bsky.social
Very happy with my gamemaker twitch ext wrapper! Poll & Reward management, one function call eventsub setup, and now testing chat commands

My first attempt was a little over engineered, but this works and keeps it simple! 20 lines to make a simple but functional quote system!

#gamemaker #gamedev
screenshot of gamemaker code: global.quotes = [] gmttv_chat_command("!quote add", function(_quote, _data){ var _user_name = _data.chatter_user_name array_push(global.quotes, $"{_quote} - {_user_name}") }) gmttv_chat_command("!quote get", function(_string){ var _index = string_digits(_string) if _index == "" { gmttv_chat_send_message("Please enter a valid quote number.") exit } else { _index = real(_index) } if _index > array_length(global.quotes){ gmttv_chat_send_message("Quote doesn't exist.") exit } var _quote = global.quotes[_index] gmttv_chat_send_message(_quote) })
June 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
grogdev.bsky.social
So this is turning out pretty cool! Load in external nineslice sprites and build your own textbox style(s) that chatters can use. Chat is hooked up to Scribble by @jujuadams.com so folks can add inline effect tags to have fun effects show up on stream!

#gamemaker #gamedev #pixelart #twitch
May 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
grogdev.bsky.social
Working on my twitch chat text box overlay in gamemaker! Custom nineslices and animated emotes are now in (tested using @chlofie.bsky.social's emotes)

🌐 twitch.tv/grogdev
#gamemaker #gamedev
May 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Oh snap I forgot I hit 500 hundo here! Catching up to where I was on other place bit by bit and having a lot more fun doing so 💪
My profile header on bsky after reaching 500 follows
April 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Tomorrow! Here's another one of my projects I'll be playing through and yapping about!

twitch.tv/grogdev
#gamemaker #gamedev #pixelart
April 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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🌐 Streaming #gamemaker #gamedev w/ @pixelatedpope.bsky.social!

New gamemaker chat overlay is in a really good spot too, hopefully the raid feature won't crash the stream (again again)

🔴 twitch.tv/grogdev
April 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I'll be doing an [ EVENT STREAM ] this Saturday at 11:00 AM EST as part of reaching a stream goal

I'll be going through my old GameMaker projects, playing through old builds, diving into old code, and chatting about lessons learned along the way! Link in bio~

#gamemaker #gamedev #pixelart
April 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Is this like a god pack lite or something? I'll take it
April 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Live with a #gamemaker #gamedev stream joined by @pixelatedpope.bsky.social !

Will be trying to implement @yellowafterlife.bsky.social 's winwin in our project. The chat overlay that I've been working on will be live if folks want to help me test it out!

🌐 twitch.tv/grogdev
April 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Working on my GameMaker chat overlay over on Twitch! You can use Scribble inline text formatting to add fun effects to your on screen chat messages... surely this won't break?

🌐 twitch.tv/grogdev

#gamemaker #gamedev
April 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Was it a good idea to connect my stream chat boxes to Scribble? That remains to be seen 👀

Working on a #gamemaker chat overlay over on twitch!

twitch.tv/grogdev

#gamedev
April 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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String templates are super useful, and I'm realizing a lot of #gamemaker devs aren't using them!

If like me you find it annoying to build strings by adding stuff together and calling string() on numbers, try prefixing the string with $, which allows you to put code in between {}.

#gamedev
screenshot of a code editor, with a dialogue box showing "lvl 10 knight, 50/100 to level 11 the code shown is: /// @description String templates are cool class = "Knight" level = 10 xp = 50 xp_to_level = 100 // Old way, why are we doing math with words :( var _old = "Lvl. " + string(level) + class + ", " + string(xp) + "/" + string(xp_to_level) + " to level " + string(level + 1) + "." // New way with string templates. //If a string has a $, you can put variables, functions, math, etc inbetween {} var _new = $"Lvl. {level} {class}, {xp}/{xp_to_level} to level {level + 1}." show_message(_new)
March 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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If I wanted to be done with gamemaker's alarms... maybe I shouldn't have called this constructor "Alarm" 🤔

Jokes aside I'm really liking this and have found my code to be easier to manage than when I was using alarms.
March 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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What a time capsule this image is, it's making me feel nostalgic! Would any mutuals, especially streamer friends be interested in some throwback island tour streams?
March 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Breaking news, Damemon is now Lillymon
Blue and pink Digimon X virtual pet with Lillymon
March 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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My Damemon is a cool guy 😎👍
Blue and pink digimon x vpet with Damemon
March 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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I'm so used to having direct control or basic AI for my characters, so I'm really digging how this acting system turned out! Left is how it's looking now, and right was my initial pseudo code mock up

#gamemaker #gamedev
gamemaker code showing how I define the "goto food" behaviour pseudo code mock up for my behaviour system
February 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I'm ready to go
Screenshot of 848 pack hourglass in pokemon pocket
January 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM