This video tutorial gives you a insight into some upcoming additional tools for Gamemaker Studio 2. This time I will show you the animation curves. This may sound like some fancy magic but is in essence a tool that represents values on a graph. These values can be used to make smooth effects like hovering, bouncing etc. . The beauti about this is that once setup you can easily change the graph to fine tune for the result you want to have. In this video tutorial you will understand what those graphs are, how you can setup them and finally use them in a practical way. ease function video https://youtu.be/pvb_xEZO1JI Ease scripts here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/3-ease-functions-29019361 Lengthdir video: https://youtu.be/pl7-sr6zeT8 ? My free game Clunky souls: https://1up-indie2.itch.io/clunky-souls ? My commercial game Office Orc: https://1up-indie2.itch.io/office-orc ? My assets: Get some assets at itch.io https://1up-indie2.itch.io/ ? Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: https://www.patreon.com/1upindie Follow me on: ? Instangram: https://www.instagram.com/1upindie ? Twitter: https://twitter.com/1upIndie ? Discord: https://discord.gg/gvr98nb ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMIzQGjmkFA

This video is an updated basics video about how to use sound in general for video games and in GameMaker. I wanted to do a comprehesive new video, to fill in the blanks and give you a solid start and minimal use case, as a basic a guide. Content: 1. What music and sound effects mean in video games (music/sfx theory), 2:17 2. How to setup sound files before using them in gamemaker or any other engine, best practise 6:14 3+.4 How to play sounds in GM, 7:54 + 12:58 1. The concept is fast and easily explained. Most of this know you instinctivly. Good music/sound can make or break a game. As an industry standard developers seperate music and sound effects each in one group each. There can be sub groups (ingame sfx, ui sfx etc.) but let's keep it simple. How are music files stored? Generally music files are being stored/saved in the .wave or .mp3 or .ogg format, which most programms can use. As a general rule it is best practise to use .wave for small sound effects that are many and .mp3 or .ogg for your larger music files. Imagine the how much of compression and quality loss you have to do to reduce it file size overall. What is music in video games? Music resembles the tone/feeling of the current level/environment and is being looped without the player having any direct effect on that. It gives context to the current place we as the player are in. What are sound effects (sfx) in video games? Sound effects on the other hand are short tunes or jingles that indicated something is happening and underline the video game experience. Their main function is give the player accustic information about the gameplay (feedback) Fancy not so useful trivia! If you want to be super fancy, you can use terms like diagetic and non diagetic. In a nutshell, diagetic means means what characters in movies/games can hear in their environment (footsteps, wind, others talking) and non diagetic, what the audience (yes you) can hear 2. Setup sound files and use tools like Audacity This is optional but, you can use the free software Audacity to export you sound files into other format + compression/quality levels and compare each sound in order to normalize them into one harmonious "mold". 3. How to use sound files in GameMaker You sound files are resources that you have to create and setup on the right side, where the asset panel is. If you want to play a sound file you can use the audio_play_sound function. ? Support me and get fresh game art and game maker projects every month: https://www.patreon.com/1upindie Follow me on: ? Instangram: https://www.instagram.com/1upindie ? Twitter: https://twitter.com/1upIndie ? Discord: https://discord.gg/gvr98nb ? Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/course/become-a-video-game-developer-with-gms-23/ (See youtube about page for discount) // game shown - Batbarian and Heros of Hammerwatch CHAPTERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 How sound is being used in video games and in GameMaker 0:20 Subscribe 0:34 Time stamps for each chapter 2:17 What music and sound effects mean in video games 2:45 How to setup sound files 7:54 How to play sounds in GameMaker 12:56 Additonal things you can do in GameMaker ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-sRh6KNJZg