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When I first decided I was going to make a 2D platformer I knew how I wanted the main character to feel and the actions that she was going to be able to do. She needed to be fast, have a sword attack, a projectile attack, a slide move, wall climbing and (as I was about 30 hours in Spider-man PS4 at the time) a grapple hook style move. Having the protagonist be a ninja made perfect sense, and a lot of the overall design of the game (both in terms of gameplay and visuals) came from that initial decision. I went deep into researching the real life history behind Ninja's and their techniques, the culture of Japan during the 1600s and their folklore creatures, a.k.a Yokai. While Destroy the Shogun, like most Ninja/Samurai games, is far from being strictly historically accurate, their are many things that I did choose to pull from directly. While the character design of Yuri is probably one of the least accurate things about the game (characters like your Sensei or Keiko are much closer to

Hey all! Welcome to my new series of blogs where I talk about the making of and influences behind my recently released 2D Action Platformer, Destroy The Shogun. By far the most common question I get on it is some variation of just 'how' so I thought I'd start there. I programmed the game using a software called Game Maker Studio 2, which is tailored towards beginner programmers like myself, as it contains many built in ways to easily do many common elements such as animating sprites, moving objects, building tile sets etc. In order to actually learn how to program I followed Shaun Spaldings Platformer tutorial series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izNXbMdu348&list=PLPRT_JORnIupqWsjRpJZjG07N01Wsw_GJ) during the making of my first game, A Squirrel's Tale. By the time I had done that I had a pretty decent grasp of most of GMS2's main functions and was able to do some slightly more advanced elements with DtS such as the main movement and abilities, some basic enemy AI and a full series

Ok, so first things first, I'm afraid that the original release date for Miracle: A Tale of Lengselia Prequel, which was Halloween, isn't going to happen. Unfortunately I've been majorly delayed due to the fact that I had to move out of my flat after my then flat mate chose to leave after only 6 months of our 1 year lease. As most people know moving under any circumstances is pretty stressful but having to move relatively suddenly and on not particularly high income is extra stressful, and to add to that multiple things went wrong while searching for a new place and I came incredibly close to having to move back into my parents and leaving my