GameMaker: Turn Based Battles - Part 7: Selecting Actions (Tutorial Series)

Part 7: Compiling our character's available actions into a menu that lets us select actions for each unit individually.

Full source code available! How to build a modular, JRPG-styled, turn based battle system in GameMaker, using all the latest tools afforded to us by recent updates and improvements to GameMaker. We'll look at how to structure your character and enemy data, define actions, control turn flow, menus, targetting and more.

I make all kinds of videos, livestreams and tutorials for GameMaker and game development in general. I'm a former Ubisoft, now indie, game designer and developer with over a decade of GameMaker experience.

[SaraSpalding]

I made a mistake! There's a potential infinite loop crash here because I included the iteration for adding your sub-menus back into the rest of the menu as part of the action list for loop. Fortunately this is a very easy fix. Move the section highlighted in this image, out of the for loop it is in. As per the arrow:

[うそ-qw]

Thank you for another part of the series! I'm loving how everything is coming together so far and it's just amazing watching everything fall into place as this series progresses. Your explanations are as usual quick, concise, and to the point which is something I really do enjoy working with. I hope to see more soon!

[GuerraPStudio]

Thanks Shaun, I'm waiting for the next part, I didn't find a person who has paypal for the complete code of this JRPG, when I have one I will buy it!

[Busterk]

I love your videos its helping me alot in my school project thank you very much, when is it going to come out the part 8 or the series is finished?

[nickgmr]

i couldnt get the magic submenu to show up, any ideas?

[Pablo_Martin_aa]

anyone else having problems with menus not apearing? the code seems to have no errors but suddlely nothing works and im not sure where to look for errors

[ajsneadii]

Thanks for the series, it is helping with getting back into developing. I cannot, however, get the menu to appear. I've followed your videos to the letter and I am not receiving any errors. Any suggestions?

[dagon]

every time i select an option on the menu that have a function, it select the first option with the MenuSelectAction, if i try to open the Magic submenu, it attacks instead, i have no idea where is the problem, it only happens in battle

[chaoticbonproductions]

I wanna know how to make a game sort of like the impossible quiz, but in gamemaker can you make a tutorial for that? Pls

[matheusmonteschio]

hi, who see this comment could tell me what the best series of it for me to watch after the action rpg?