Recifuturo

Overview

Recifuturo was my first game. In my first semester of college in Brazil, we had to make an educational game with an open theme. We chose a puzzle adventure. I was in charge of game design, level design, programming and sound effects.

Challenges

• Screenshot system in Game Maker (it no longer works in newer versions, which dropped those functions).
• Inventory system that takes advantage of Game Maker variables not needing a fixed type: like a JSON object, all the data, whatever its type, goes into one matrix variable. That meant less effort and fewer lines of code.
• Inheritance, which Game Maker teaches well: every button in the game comes from one parent, with only its text and action changed.

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