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GameGuru MAX: August 2025

21 Agu

August 2025 Update

Since our June release, development on MAX has been busier than ever — a flood of new features, dozens of updated and new behaviors, and a long list of stability improvements. This cycle saw an especially heavy focus on expanding the behavior system, giving creators more built-in gameplay mechanics, UI controls, and visual feedback options right out of the box. Alongside this, the editor gained several usability upgrades and optimizations aimed at making large projects faster and smoother to work with.

Here’s a round-up of what’s now part of today’s release:

Major Features & Additions

Behavior System Expansion

New Behaviors: Booster, Particle Toggler, XP Monitor, Objective Monitor, Freefall Object — plus many new icons (life/health, hand, disk, trade, switch, progress bar) for clearer in-game feedback.
Enhanced Existing Behaviors: Huge sweep of updates to quest, vehicle, door, switch, HUD, stealth, NPC, environmental, and combat behaviors — including fixes, optimizations, and new highlight/icon support.
Gameplay Mechanics: Improvements to object interaction (carry, break, destroy, hack, search, climb, etc.), better stacked object handling for destructible items, and refined flashlight logic (battery drain, auto turn-off, and specific use cases).

Lua Command Additions

SetPlayerRun(v) — toggle player sprint ability.
Include(file) — load external Lua scripts into your logic.
MoveDown(e,v) — quickly shift entities in the world.
Multiple new player, HUD, and weapon animation control commands, including ForceGunUnderWater, SetGunAnimationSpeed, and full control of gun animation frames.
Added new g_UserGlobal entries for ammo, health, and lives tracking.

Editor & UI Enhancements

New Global Behaviors system centralizes common scripts for easier reuse.
Status bar and highlight colors now independently configurable.
Modern Dark theme refinements, plus re-addition of Darker Style.
Faster storyboard thumbnail and .fpe loading.
“Empty Level” grid controls with adjustable floor height.
Expanded editor menus for project management, toolbar layouts, and icon selection.
Improved import of remote projects and custom fonts.

Visuals & Effects

Added gun tracers for aircraft and below-barrel tracer options.
Optimized decal rendering for smoother animation.
New particle emitter rotation support and trigger types for more dynamic effects.
Improved handling of custom materials in standalone builds.

Bug Fixes & Stability

Gameplay & Logic

Fixed numerous behavior logic issues (quest progression, stealth zones, objective visibility, NPC state changes, underwater detection, particle toggling, and more).
Resolved fog setting restoration after test games, weapon ammo handling, and custom material activation problems.
Fixed font loading, WPE resource validation, and workshop subscription edge cases.

Editor & Standalone

Prevented freezes when saving/loading large levels.
Improved validation of duplicated entities in standalones.
Fixed missing skybank handling, crash cases from collection saves, and hot-loading object issues.
Enhanced VRAM management between levels for smoother transitions.

Performance & Optimization

DDS conversion and compression options to reduce texture memory use.
Freed VRAM between level loads, optimized material handling, and reduced “not responding” waits for big levels.
Faster decal, storyboard, and .fpe loads.

New Swimming Arms in Global Behaviours

Thanks to the awesome community contributions, you now have access to a new global behavior that, when selected, will employ animated swimming arms when underwater
You can find this behavior in the new Global Behavior feature titled "swimming.lua"

General Observations

This has been one of the broadest updates we’ve done for MAX in terms of scope — from deep gameplay scripting tools to quality-of-life tweaks in the editor. The Global Behaviors push, the massive wave of behavior updates, and the addition of powerful Lua commands give creators more freedom than ever to build complex, interactive worlds without starting from scratch each time.

As always, the best way to see these changes in action is to join our community on Discord — share your creations, test the new features, and help guide where MAX goes next.

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A New Chapter Begins

1 Agu

A New Chapter Begins

We are thrilled to announce that GameGuru MAX, AGK Studio, GameGuru Classic, and all associated game development intellectual properties have officially been acquired from TheGameCreators by Dark Basic Software Limited. The transfer, finalized in May 2025 and announced in June 2025, marks the beginning of an exciting new era for our game-making communities!

This seismic change will refocus our development efforts moving forward, with a greater emphasis on product improvement, community involvement, and building on our ecosystem of contributors. We've been very fortunate to have had the support of passionate, highly experienced contributors over the years, and we feel this is a great way for a small team to build a great product.

So what does this mean for our loyal users? Nothing changes, except for the better! You’ll continue to get your quarterly updates and regular news on progress. The only difference you’ll notice is a renewed energy behind the scenes, including:

Faster development cycles
Quicker and more responsive bug fixes
More frequent updates
New features and enhancements rolled out with greater consistency
A tighter feedback loop with the community

So, what does the team behind Dark Basic Software Limited say? Well, this is more than a business decision; it’s about renewing the energy behind the development effort, creating the space and freedom necessary to deliver the kind of tools we always dreamed of for indie developers and creators. We’re excited to share this news with our community and can’t wait to show you what’s coming next!

Looking ahead, we’re already hard at work on several exciting updates, and this new structure allows us to move faster and listen closer than ever before. GameGuru MAX is entering a new phase of evolution, and the journey is just beginning. Thank you for being part of one of the longest-standing (and long-suffering) game-making communities out there :)

Here's to the future, let’s build it together!

GameGuru MAX

GameGuru MAX: June 2025 Update

12 Jun

June 2025 Update

For those following the ebb and flow of development on GitHub and our quarterly update announcements, you'll know we've been assigning bug fixing as top priority. Indeed, it's been our top 3 priorities, much to the chagrin of some users who want us to go much faster. The good news is that single-mindedness has now paid off, and with this update, only 10 bugs remain outstanding on our issues board. Here is a summary of the last 3 months of development, now part of today's release:

Major Features & Additions

HUD & UI Enhancements
- New alternative in-game HUD system and logic for enabling/disabling shooting during live HUD.
- Improved HUD screen management: duplicating/renaming screens, selector dropdowns for various scripts.
- Expanded “Active HUD” and “HUD Zone” behaviors for more dynamic overlays and controls.
- Added assorted and interactive icons (drink, climb, carry, break, push, etc.) for better visual feedback.
AI & Gameplay Logic
- Improved soldier AI for melee combat with new block, counter, leap attack, and stun/ground logic.
- Added new master interpreter commands for enhanced combat logic.
- Better patrol logic for AI and fixes for quest-giver and NPC control behaviors.
- Added new Lua commands for explosions, entity properties, and HUD interaction.
Materials & Graphics
- Improved custom materials system, material settings fixes, and restored custom material tick function.
- Added support for custom shaders, delayed point shadows, and new particle system controls (including the ability to disable particles).
- Performance optimizations for raycasts, sound modes, and texture handling.
Editor & Project Management
- Enhanced deployment and build automation scripts.
- Improved handling of standalone game packaging (DDS handler, memory optimizations).
- “Completely Empty Level” mode for faster scene setup/testing and space levels.
Scripting & Behavior Updates
- Numerous updates to Lua scripts for spells, items, and zones—especially for user global selection, HUD, and sound handling.
- Added water zone behavior and associated sample models.

Bug Fixes & Stability

Editor and Level Stability
- Fixed corrupt references in editor lock list, crash scenarios in matrix math, and rare crashes from model files or physics.
- Fixed issues with player speed, entity duplication, and improper material settings carrying over.
- Autosave for storyboard modifications and improved error trapping for old levels.
Gameplay and AI
- Fixed quest-giver always being active, improved handling of player/NPC states, and rogue sound issues.
- Fixed various issues in melee combat, attachments, and sound playback (notably XAudio2 bugs and volume reset issues).
Scripting and Logic
- Fixed problems with multiple global lists, bug in workshop subscriptions, particle system behaviors, and sound system edge cases.
- Fixed array overruns, premature blood loads, and issues with entity spawning and navmesh toggling.
Visuals & UI
- Fixed image references, HUD screen selection, and icon updates for a more consistent UI experience.
- Unified workshop scripts into the core for improved compatibility.

Other Noteworthy Updates

Performance and Optimization
- Added more logging, error trapping, and performance metrics (OPTICK events).
- Improved handling of large-scale levels and standalone performance.
Automation
- Enhanced scripts for automated build, deployment, and changelog generation (pulls live from GitHub).

General Observations

It's been a very active period with a mix of major features, usability improvements, and a strong focus on stability. Continuous improvement to both user-facing features (HUD, icons, AI) and backend/editor tools (build automation, error handling) has been made, and ongoing cleanup, deprecation of old behaviors, and streamlining of the codebase have put the engine in a good place.

With the last of the bugs being rounded up, MAX enters a new phase of development, and exactly what shape that takes will be discussed extensively by our amazing community. To find out what comes next, the best place to hang out is our Discord channel, where you can learn about official developments and also what the community is creating right now with MAX.

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GAMEGURU MAX - NEWS FLASH!

31 Mei

Are you prepared for the most monumental news in the history of GameGuru MAX? Then put the 12th June 2025 in your calendar, and be ready to join us for a very special live Q&A starting at 7 PM BST. Don't miss out on this, the only opportunity to say, "I was there on the 12th June, 2025!"

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Happy Easter from GameGuru MAX

20 Apr

A very happy Easter to all our GameGuru MAX community!

We are happy to extend to all our dedicated game makers out there an addition to the FREE "GameGuru MAX Easter Gift Kit" DLC, giving you the power to make your own Easter games!

This year the pack is enhanced by the addition of 10 more easter egg designs to fill your Easter Basket!

You can visit Steam and download for free now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2298680/GameGuru_MAX_Easter_Gift_Kit/

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GameGuru MAX Modern Day Mini Kit - Abandoned Hospital

3 Apr

Another great DLC from the master of the interiors, WizardOfID. This time, he's turned his talents to an old, abandoned hospital and asylum mini kit. Designed to complement the Asylum Furnishings DLC, but usable for many genres from Horror, Post Apocalyptic through to Modern day.

Fully modular, the pack includes assets to make rooms and buildings easily, and has enough variation to make wards, padded cells, offices and much more; all ready to be populated with assets from other DLC's or your own models.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3358180/GameGuru_MAX_Modern_Day_Mini_Kit__Abandoned_Hospital/

Dream it! Build it! Play it!

GameGuru MAX

GameGuru MAX Modern Day Asset Pack - Household Weapons

28 Mar

The GameGuru MAX Modern Day Booster Pack - Household Weapons does exactly what it suggests. From very talented artist Kravenwolf, this awesome pack contains 10 household items, all GameGuru MAX ready, and fully weaponized ready to drop straight into your games.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3338770/GameGuru_MAX_Modern_Day_Asset_Pack__Household_Weapons/

Dream it! Build it! Play it!

GameGuru MAX

March update released!

25 Mar

Welcome to the first quarterly update of 2025! Here is your round-up of all the fixes and improvements since December 2024. The issues board count steadily grew in the last 3 months from around 20 to over 60, many of the issues well-reported and many officially reproduced and confirmed. We are pleased to report that for our March update, that number is much reduced.

We are very pleased to introduce a new feature, oft-requested by the community, the ability to create a completely empty level, that is, no terrain, no water, nothing much of anything except some night sky and a start marker. This ability to create a purely empty level is ideal for creating indoor scenes that contain a lot of detail where terrain and water are not required and provide a fast experience for players. You will find it in the Terrain Generator in the top-right labeled "Completely Empty Level".

We also received an update from community magician Necrym59 who updated the Crafting Table logic to include the detection of class types, so you can now differentiate between crafting food on campfires and potions on magic tables, and he also threw in a player experience level logic so you can control how powerful your player needs to be before they can craft there!

This update also includes the ability to switch off all nav mesh generation at creation time, perfect for levels where only the player is roaming about and does not need extra metadata for characters to walk about. We restored the smooth camera mode (just use the arrow keys), ideal for making slick video footage of your games.

Plenty of functionality improvements and fixes when it comes to particles, and you only need to check out Preben's excellent Patreon page to learn just how far down the rabbit hole you can go when it comes to particle creation and effects. Here is a link to learn more: https://www.patreon.com/c/plemsoft/posts

New LUA commands have been added to further your scripting ambitions, including greater control of the clouds above you, more accurate positioning of sounds, new math conversion commands, finer HUD control, and we upped the DLUA variable count to 40 to support truly massive behavior logic when you need it. We also upped the storyboard screen limit from 50 to 150, so we dare you to make your game that massive!

Finally, a lot of time was spent cleaning up and optimizing areas of the editor and engine, so for example larger levels will now use GBs less memory as your object count goes up, and adding new assets live has been sped up 400%! Performance tuning is an ongoing process, and very edge-specific, so if you find something you feel could be faster, do let us know.

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 to the product.

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

Added ability to switch off Nav Mesh Generation in Terrain Generator
Fixed issue of smooth camera mode not being able to mouselook
Updated the drafting table behaviour to allow class types and player experience level detection
Fixed issue of cloned characters adopting a changed logic state from a character that has already transitioned a script
Expanded the Completely Empty Level Mode from 5K to 50K area
Added COMPLETELY EMPTY Level Mode to skip any terrain work if required
Bug Fix - Allow particles to be activated/deactivated
Bug Fix - Grass tab was reloading some images all the time
Added 2 new lua commands - SetTreeWind(val) - val = GetTreeWind() - "val = 0.0 to 1.0"
Added - Animated Trees with "tree wind" slider
Wicked Particles - Support for custom impact and max default explosion
Fix - missing files in standalone
Fix - DX11 Errors reported from debug layer.
New LUA Command: GetCloudDensity() -- val = GetCloudDensity(), Get Cloud Density
New LUA Command: SetCloudDensity(val) -- SetCloudDensity(val), Set Cloud Density
New LUA Command: GetCloudCoverage() -- val = GetCloudCoverage(), Get Cloud Coverage
New LUA Command: SetCloudCoverage(val) -- SetCloudCoverage(val), Set Cloud Coverage
New LUA Command: GetCloudHeight() -- val = GetCloudHeight(), Get Cloud Height
New LUA Command: SetCloudHeight(val) -- SetCloudHeight(val), Set Cloud Height
New LUA Command: GetCloudThickness() -- val = GetCloudThickness(), Get Cloud Thickness
New LUA Command: SetCloudThickness(val) -- SetCloudThickness(val), Set Cloud Thickness
New LUA Command: GetCloudSpeed() -- val = GetCloudSpeed(), Get Cloud Speed
New LUA Command: SetCloudSpeed(val) -- SetCloudSpeed(val), Set Cloud Speed
Bug Fix - Disable caustic on terrain when water disabled
Expand cstr max string size for some functions, and expand ringbuffer size
Mem - Save 100+mb removing unused storyboard structs
Bug Fix - TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5920
Bug Fix - prevent more exceptions even if they have catch
Bug Fix - Reset wicked particle effects between standalone levels
Added New Cover Zone to game elements, and new Follow Cover Zone behavior for characters
Bug Fix - weapons added to projects. ( TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5910 )
Bug Fix - When creating new project, would contain g_collectionList from prev. loaded project
Bug Fix - above would add those wepons to the new project (TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo#5851)
Wicked Particle System updates
Bug Fix - in standalone skybox got copied to docwrite folder with _e_
New Wicked Particle Commands documented in globals.lua
Bug Fix - Cleanup of wicked particle effects
Fix for custom terrain textures
Bug Fix - Cleanup of wicked particle effects
Further EPIC Fix - correct DLL copied over
Added Fix for EPIC Standalone Saving
January 2025 - Optimizing / New features / Bug Fixing
New LUA command - PositionSound(Entity,Slot,X,Y,Z)
Added - Quest Type "Activate" (4 Necrym59)
Added - DLUA - -- DESCRIPTION: [@SELECTED_INTERACTION$=-1(0=InterActionWeaponList)] (4 Necrym59)
Added - DLUA - -- DESCRIPTION: [@ListQuests=1(0=QuestList)] (4 Necrym59)
Added Wicked Particle System (LUA only for now)
New LUA commands Convert2DTo3D, Convert3DTo2D, ScreenCordsToPercent
New lua commands - DisableBoundHudKeys() and EnableBoundHudKeys() ( 4 AmenMoses )
Optimizing - terrain/trees/veg will now only load textures when used, 5 sec. faster startup & saved 0.5gb
Storyboard max screens increased from 50 to 150, max widgets from 50 to 100.
Optimizing - cStr - changed to use ringbuffer instead of temp storage
Above save tons of memory, levels with 3000 object = 1gb. memory saved
Added log vram usage to Guru-MapEditor.log
Bug Fix - When using load game or when died and weapon already loaded.
Bug Fix - Weapon animations was not parsed symptoms: "Gun with stretched arms."
Optimizing - DLUA now use less memory
Added more DLUA variables now 40 available (4 Necrym59)
Added DLUA error if script do not have any "newlines"
Optimizing - max startup - adding all media to assets lists now 400% faster.
Bug Fix - restore position of lua moved particles
Added to setup.ini - "editorvsync" option, my gpu is burning and my electric bill is high, there are cheaper ways to heat a room :)
Added weapon slot 11 to be used for interactions ONLY, can't be used with any weapons using ammo (4 Necrym59)
Bug Fix - only one delete/add quest button per behavior
Better object error messages
Improvement to zone spawning logic for when standalone levels are saved and restored
HUD Interface can now show a HUD when player enters a zone
Added new LUA command to get HUD screen name and updated HUD interface script
Improved WinZone can now be activated remotely
Fixed decal disappear issue

Also, we have a huge resource of game-making videos going back over ten years on our YouTube channel so feel free to spool through on your tea break! Until the next update, stay creative and happy game-making!

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GameGuru MAX Far Future Booster Pack - Industrial Slum

13 Mar

From the talented artist Pasquill comes a brand new pack, inspired by a dark and futuristic industrial complex.

This excellent collection of over 150 assets features a gothic, rundown look and includes walkways, storage tanks & boxes, ladders & buildings - all inspired by a dark future and all GameGuru MAX-ready!

Although ideal for, and inspired by, a future world, the pack is varied enough to be at home in Steampunk, Horror, Post Apocalyptic and Dystopian games.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2873390/GameGuru_MAX_Far_Future_Booster_Pack__Industrial_Slum/

Dream it! Build it! Play it!

GameGuru MAX

GameGuru MAX Far Future Booster Pack - Warriors of the Future

6 Mar

Looking for some new parts for the Character Creator? Working on a game set in the Far Future?

The Warriors of the Future gives you just that! Created by the very talented Mav3r1ck Media, the pack includes 5 complete sets of interchangeable sci-fi armour.

Designed with the Far Future in mind, the pack also lends itself well to modern warfare and cyberpunk style games. All parts are fully complatible with the existing Male character creator parts, allowing you to create hundred of variations.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3510950/GameGuru_MAX_Far_Future_Booster_Pack__Warriors_of_the_Future/

Dream it! Build it! Play it!

GameGuru MAX

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