Introducing the latest instalment in the Low Poly range of GameGuru MAX assets - the Swordmasters Arsenal Gift Kit. This asset pack sized gift kit is a FREE DLC for GameGuruMAX. Just add it to your library to access a host of new weapons!

The Swordmasters Arsenal Gift Kit expands the range of melee style weapons including the Pious Sword, the Infernal Blade and the Mystic Shortsword. Adventures anew await with awesome auspices of unrivalled sharpness to carve a new destiny in a world of your own creation.

Featured in this FREE gift kit are over 25 brand new new weapons of the sword-style variety - from long to short, mundane to exotic. Never before, and never again, will such a fine array of blades ever be seen.

Adapted for GameGuru MAX by the artist 'Kasseyus', all weapons and character parts are fully compatible with the existing character creator parts, increasing the customisable choices available to choose from!

Optimised exclusively for use in GameGuru MAX, explore like never before, with the LowPoly range of assets for GameGuru MAX!

You can check this great FREE gift kit, out on Steam here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3156140/GameGuru_MAX_Low_Poly_Asset_Pack__Swordmasters_Arsenal/

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Looking for some unusual weapons to add that extra madness to your games? Well, the Madman's Melee Pack from talented artist MonkeyFrog Studios could be just what you're looking for.

Designed with a Victorian, or Gothic Horror feel in mind, but suitable for many genres including Post Apocalyptic, Modern Day, Steampunk and more, these high quality, improvised weapons are perfect for your games.

Created with the idea that only a madman or the desperate would use them, you'll find a range of old and sometimes simply bizarre weapons for all occasions.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3287910/GameGuru_MAX_Horror_Asset_Pack__Madmans_Melee_Weapons/

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Welcome to the fourth quarterly update of the year!  Here is your round-up of all the fixes and improvements since September 2024. The issues board count remains tolerably in the 20 to 30 range and we have recently introduced two new tags for 'Officially Reproduced' and 'Investigating'.

This update includes numerous bug fixes, feature enhancements and system optimisations for GameGuru MAX. Key graphical improvements include correcting character reflectance values, fixing volumetric lighting decals and resolving video corruption issues for 1080x1920 portrait videos. Notably, the SketchFab feature was removed following its discontinuation, and various fixes addressed rendering, decal memory leaks, and custom animation issues. Additionally, tweaks to standalone exports ensure complete file transfers and improved visual asset management.

Gameplay mechanics saw significant adjustments, such as fixes for Lua scripting issues, entity movement without physics and improved object visibility in standalone games. Enhancements like adding loot drops for all characters, including from animals, enabling particles via "IFUSED" without spawning, and introducing SetEntityViewRange for custom control expand game customization possibilities. A new Area Damage Spell function has been reassigned to the right mouse button, enhancing RPG gameplay functionality.

Several backend improvements were implemented to streamline the development process. These include better logging for debugging weapon additions, new settings for gun specifications such as EmissiveStrength, and tools like PromptLocalDuration for timed events. Various community-driven updates, such as adding tutorials to the development hub and expanding scripting libraries, further support developer creativity. Overall, the update focuses on enhancing performance, fixing long-standing issues, and expanding development capabilities.

Remember, you have full access to the GameGuru MAX source code on our GitHub repository and you are more than welcome to clone a copy and even contribute fixes and features of your own to the product.

For those interested in the blow-by-blow changelog, here it is, fresh from the GitHub repository:

• Fixed issue causing all characters to use reflectance of 1.0, should be 0.04 unless GLASSES detected
  
• Small tweak to remove INCLUDEVRAM until global is revealed (could not find on 01/12/24 commit)
  
• Fix for player_peek script, so you can peek around corners and still shoot
  
• Fix to include .lst file in standalone, to be used for thread loading textures/objects
  
• VRAM usage to see if FPS drops are VRAM swapping related. Use #ifdef INCLUDEVRAM to enable
  
• Removed SketchFab - it does not exist anymore
  
• Support for GGC volumetric lighting decals (BLENDMODE_ADDITIVE)
  
• Fix for CineGuru Standalones - objects remain hidden and full files are copied over
  
• Pre-DEC update tweaks
  
• Bug Fix - Memory leak: new decal particles were not freed - TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5826
  
• Bug Fix - Changing hands with custom legacy animations could fail
  
• Bug Fix - Lua MoveForward() - Object that did not use physics did not move
  
• Bug Fix - Memory leak: Lua-loaded images - TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5826
  
• Added SetEntityViewRange for Necrym59
  
• Fixed particles were not registered in g_Entity before _main was called the first time
  
• Added loot drops for all characters so animals and mammals can drop loot
  
• Include Particlesbank USER folder for standalone exports
  
• Standalone game reload fix for haunting demo and similar issues
  
• Video corruption fix for when videos of 1080x1920 portrait size are used
  
• When using large animations like 20x20, values need to be between 0-1 and exactly align to Usize_f
  
• Updated HUB to add Community Tutorials Area
  
• Bug fix for - TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5738
  
• Bug fix for - TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5756
  
• Bug triggered if object fails to spawn at start
  
• TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5753, only for zones
  
• Bug Fix for TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5752
  
• Fixed issue with blood not being customizable in FPE
  
• Bug Fixed - TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5769
  
• Bug Fixed - TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5742
  
• Bug Fixed - TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5657
  
• Bug Fixed - TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5761
  
• Added PromptLocalDuration(e,"5 sec", 5000)
  
• Added EmissiveStrength setting to gunspec.txt and support for it
  
• GetEntityExplodable(e) for Necrym59
  
• Script fixes to misclib and generator
  
• Fix VR (TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5747 (comment))
  
• Added more logging info to find out why sometimes weapons are being added to an empty level
  
• Particles are now activatable via IFUSED when not spawned at the start
  
• Changed Area Damage Spell to use the right mouse button for a better RPG Template experience

Also, remember our monthly video update is a great resource for catching up on community happenings. We post these on the last Saturday of every month at 7PM GMT on our YouTube channel.

 

The Sounds of Terror is our first Horror inspired Audio Booster pack. The very talented Orpheus returns to bring you this custom made pack of sounds, all GameGuru MAX-ready and perfect for almost any genre where you want to scare or spook your players!

Included in this pack you'll find over 20 NPC Voices, 16 Loopable Ambient Sounds, 19 Creepy Sounds, Sounds for opening and closing doors and drawers, more than 20 sounds for Ghosts, Ghouls and Demons, 36 'Item" sounds, including rattling chains, splatters, creaking floorboards and more. Add to this, a selection of Tannoy announcements, ideal for hospitals, asylums and institutions, plus a collection of useful UI sounds, to add that final element of quality to your games.

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Grab yourself a copy of this awesome audio pack here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2996440/GameGuru_MAX_Horror_Booster_Pack__The_Sounds_of_Terror/

The Sounds of the Arcane audio booster pack, from talented audio artist 'YcarusRedCore', contains over 140 audio effects with a strong focus on music suited to fantasy and supernatural games. The pack contains numerous musical tracks and audio effects, perfect for creating tension, background effect and adding mood music.

Developed with GameGuru MAX in mind, this excellent audio pack will add that extra dimension to your games!

You can check this great audio booster pack out on Steam here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3054640/GameGuru_MAX_Fantasy_Audio_Booster_Pack__The_Sounds_of_the_Arcane/

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Welcome to the Old Mines! Coming from talented and well respected artist WizardOfiD, the Old Mines booster pack provides a wide range of tunnels, props, doors and a collection of other assets, ideal for buildings your own abandoned mine, or underground bunker.

Designed with the modern day in mind, the pack is equally useful for post apocalyptic, dystopian, cyberpunk and other genres. The pack also contains assets to link seamlessly to other WizardofID packs, available separately on Steam.

With over 350 individual models, including pipes, rocks, rooms, tunnels and signs, you're sure to find what you need to build your own mine.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3290700/GameGuru_MAX_Modern_Day_Booster_Pack__Old_Mines/
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Welcome to the Asylum! The Abandoned Asylum is the latest collection of GameGuru MAX assets from amazing artist MonkeyFrog Studio.

If you're planning your own horror game, creepy dystopian world, post apocalyptic nightmare or modern day adventure then this is THE pack for you.

Included in this massive pack of high quality assets you'll find all the parts you need to decorate your own asylum or Victorian hospital, with a comprehensive range of props.

The pack provides beds, curtains, mattresses, medical equipment, office furniture and a lot more. You'll find assets to make bathrooms, a chapel, a morgue, bedrooms, offices, waiting room and a load of signs and props to decorate with.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2873340/GameGuru_MAX_Horror_Booster_Pack__Asylum_Furnishings/

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If you're planning a Victorian or Steampunk based game, then the industrial assets pack from amazing artist Eyefly, are a great place to start. Focusing on the industrial era, the pack contains ornate platforms, walls, walkways, brass vats, wild machines and much more.

What's more, is that a number of the assets are animated, so you can fill your world full of pumps, pistons, switches and loads more!

You can easily build factory interiors, create complex walkways and link multiple levels. Build mighty pipe networks, and attach animated cogs, valves and other props to really bring your industrial dream to life.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2873400/GameGuru_MAX_Steampunk_Booster_Pack__Industry/

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Welcome to the third of four quarterly updates of the year!  Here is your round-up of all the fixes and improvements since June 2024. The issues board count has ebbed and flowed from less than 10 bugs to over 30 and, generally, we are finding that new issues are increasingly edge cases and we're seeing good stability in the latest builds.

Bugs aside, we have seen a pretty impressive haul of new features added to GameGuru MAX all thanks to the efforts of community member Preben, who has been very busy on his Patreon page helping users and adding new functionality.  To name the highlights, he created a special lite version of his excellent LOD Generator and this is now part of the Object Preview system to create LOD versions of stock and custom objects. He has added Depth Of Field, Water Caustics and other post-processing features and by no means least, you now get FSR support to give your games a massive performance boost.

The internal team has also been busy too, adding a new video playback gadget to your storyboard screen editor, migrating the old decal animation system to use particles for things like bullet impacts and blood splats and character reactions such as stun to improve general melee combat logic.  The biggest new feature is the Remote Project System that provides the ability to separate your game assets from the stock library and maintain a quite separate folder for all your game project files. This has been a big request for those working on larger game projects and has encouraged more ambitious projects to be created and developed. You can find this feature when you create a new project, with the option to move your project to a location of your choice, even local cloud folders such as DropBox Desktop folders, for instant syncing with the cloud for an excellent backup facility. The remote project system will keep a copy of any stock assets you use and keep your custom content separate in a common location, allowing you to zip up and share your entire project without having to worry about gathering files from different reference locations.

As we pledged a good few updates ago, and despite the impressive functionality additions above, our priority remains on making sure bugs are handled quickly to ensure we have a stable build for making games.  These fixes and improvements are numerous, though we can highlight a few top items such as further improvements to performance, both in terms of game speed and loading times.  Improvements to the new weapon system for more control via scripting and we've fixed the rate of fire issues.  The RPG features have been strengthened to cope with standalone game saves and reloading, ensuring player stats, inventory, and chest contents are perfectly restored, along with zone states, collision and all the other properties that might change as you progress through your levels.  As these bugs generally appear sporadically, and very much on a per-game basis, this work continues in earnest to ensure that the games you publish have great save/load capability, no matter the size of your game world.

Remember, you have full access to the GameGuru MAX source code on our GitHub repository and you are more than welcome to clone a copy and even contribute fixes and features of your own to the product.

For those interested in the blow-by-blow change lot, here it is, fresh from the GitHub repository:

* Script Improvements by Necrym59 and Guide Updates
* Sped up debug mode by deferring sound ferrment
* Fixed ability to add weapon from script only
* Fixed Rate Of Fire system to work inside Can Fire logic
* Fixed VSYNC coming back from game issue
* Fixed crash issue when adding 10th loot item to characters
* PromptDuration debug string survives game reload for better debugging
* Character heads no longer disappear when apparent size culling working
* Inventory contents survives move from one level to another
* Some small fixes reducing extant bug count to 20
* Added Video Gadget To Screens
* Updated door rotate script with new feature (push/pull)
* Script Fix in player zone behavior to remove debug prompt
* Trigger zones not restoring after a game save now fixed
* Tests of standalone save games
* Now deletes temp files from standalone game to game
* Fixed issue of SetPosition command not working after ResetPosition command
* ResetPosition command now no longer grounds objects to the terrain
* Script improvements to crosshair and toxiczone
* Fixed reloading game save issue with butterflies not animating
* Fixed issue of a crash if encrypted FPEs are loaded as though normal FPEs
* Now correctly restores cloned objects in more scenarios
* Fixed flicker that happens after standalone splash screen
* Inventory now refreshes correctly first time after using chests
* Fixed issue that caused game time to be reset on game save reloads
* All tested states in a level are restored after a game save reload
* Script improvements related to reloading level states
* NOTE: RESTOREMENOW flag for EntityExtra for script writers
* New command set the always active property of an object
* Fixed arrow script to always set the arrow as active
* Fixed TEXTINZONE to work with multiple zones
* Fixed issue of remote project media items not showing in library
* Included more media into remote project creation
* Now includes NEARLY ALL files from remote project folder into standalone creation
* Fix Lens flare do not work in standalone.
* PromptLocalOffset now with 3d coordinates option
* Added Depth of Field
* Added post processing snow/dust shader with many options
* Added underwater caustics. and waveing
* Tidied up standalone export to speed it up and catch more files
* Improved the game save feature to restore more of the in-level game states
* Added GetPlayerFOV LYA command
* Fixed issue with exploding stuff not injuring characters and objects
* Entering the Storyboard Area is now much faster
* Numerous script improvements related to game save restorations
* Fixed issue of some standalones not copying over all the files (related to remote project work)
* Fixed issue of combat music not starting for shooter characters, and now allows to modify combat music duration
* Now transfers sky bank selections and particle selections to the remote project area
* Improved media copying to remote project area
* NOTE: Includes sound, images, video and particles
* Cleanup to remove older grass and terrain system artefacts
* Fixed issue with Low Poly characters not using the correct animation when a weapon is selected.
* Music volume in standalone now works with ambienceinzone (Music Zone)
* Icon specified in storyboard now applies to the final executable
* Fixed issue of shop inventories not restoring after a saved game is reloaded
* Added new LIVES REMAINING to the Storyboard Screen Editor
* Decal Projection not suitable for scorch and blood splatter on animating objects, need another way
* Standalone Save Game Fixes including inventory and shop restoration, and light state restoration
* Blood decal now uses new particle system (together with new newparticle files in decal folders)
* Added new capability for old decals to be replaced with the new particle system (WIP)
* Fixed collision state when loading game save position
* Now allows the first object in a batch conversion to be saved
* Added LUA commands for new particle system
* Added new PARTICLEEFFECT.LUA script that can be assigned to particle game elements
* Updated game loading to fix issue of collision being ignored when a script switches it off (fish issue)
* Added support for block fail animation when player attempts to block but times it badly
* Further work on new project system to handle copying asset files into remote project area
* Made sure terrain height is done, then invalidate everything to get correct height for virtual textures/grass/trees.
* FSR Support
* Add support to bullet polygon collision for triangle list mesh without indices. Where we have more then one mesh in the object.
* lua_setcameradistance now works from lua, great to trigger changes inside indoor levels for improved FPS.
* Player can now block if the weapon supports the animation
* Characters can be react to a player block if they have the STUN animation using Melee Attach
* Updated three of the player voice sounds to present block sound effects
* Changed terms for LOWEST to FASTEST for better clarity
* Fixed crash when specifying animation files that do not exist

Also, remember our monthly live broadcast is a great place to get a look at some of these fixes, so if you want to join in on these extended hour-long Q&A sessions, we host them on the last Saturday of every month at 7PM BST on our YouTube channel - see you there :-)