Heya!

Happy holidays everyone!

I hope everyone is staying safe and having an enjoyable holiday season! And while this is late, I hope those who celebrate Hanukkah had a good one this year <3

I’ve been keeping myself pretty busy with Angel’s as of late because…

I'm making my own engine within Gamemaker!* Up until now I've been using TML's engine but I want to use a system that I built so I know how it functions exactly and for my own coding to improve.

*(I do want to mention it's not purely from scratch. the movement/collisions is from PixelatedPope's script and the naming screen is modified from Gamemaker Rob)

I've been working on this for three weeks and I think I've made a good amount of progress!

Here’s what I’ve accomplished:

• working dialogue system with portraits, expressions, sounds and 4 choices.*

• room warping

• cut-scenes

• save system, with 3 save slots

(*While the the dialogue system is working, I'm still having some trouble with it.)

As mentioned with the title, I’m looking for additional code helpers. This means I'm looking for someone to make improvements to my code and to help direct me in the right direction of what to do.

First I want to give some context. I've only been coding seriously for roughly a year. I jumped into TML's engine with very little coding knowledge and since then, I've made an effort to really learn gamemaker. I'd say I'm decent at it, but I do rely heavily on tutorials. And while I can think outside the box, but I'm still overwhelmed with how to handle some of these more advanced concepts.

I've talked before with my plans for gameplay, and so for the engine it'll have:

• a lively open-world game full of NPCs, puzzles and adventures

• different party members following the player depending on story beats

• 3 main story-lines

• Undertale turn-based combat with both Deltarune improvements and new game mechanics specifically for Angel's.

I am confident with enough time I can build my game the way I want to. But I feel it will not be the most streamlined or easy to use engine.

I’m looking for someone who is patient to direct me/touch up my code for easier accessibility for myself. I still want to be the main coder, I know darn well how much work goes into coding and I'd hate to ask a lot of someone more than necessary.

To apply to become an coding assistant you can join my discord and message me either in the comment section here or in discord general channel. We'll then talk further in DMs for an interview.

Thank you in advance!

And for everyone else sticking around, here are a couple of character portraits to show some off some non-coding progress.