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Greenhouse: Dead Sun

Oct 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Hiya everyone!

I'm working on a metroidvania platformer called Greenhouse: Dead Sun. It's a melee action platformer taking a lot of inspiration from the Momodora series (and a bit of hollow knight) and of course Cave Story (you can play my previous game Greenhouse: Schism if you want the REALLY cave story inspired stuff- It's free as well!)

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(I compressed the hell out of this gif I hope it doesn't look horrible)

I'm using GameMaker and separate level editor called LDtk to make the game itself as well as Aseprite and FL studio for the art and music. I'm also using a custom system for handling cutscenes in GameMaker that I have open sourced on github so if any of you are using GameMaker it might be neat https://github.com/Volpanic/VFlow . I'm planning to get a demo out in a month or two and release like a third into next year.

I've got a steam page up to trickle in wishlists while I keep working on it- (https://store.steampowered.com/app/5225240/Greenhouse_Dead_Sun/)

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Thanks for reading :heart: ~
 
Oct 10, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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This looks really cool, I can't wait for it to release! Especially with what the GameMaker engine can do, I'm sure this'll be a great game for sure!
 
Oct 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Oct 11, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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This project looks very nice and I wish you luck!

Also, I tried downloading your previous game (Schism... now there's a word I haven't heard in a long while...), and while there are probably better channels for asking this, I may as well put it here. Do you know of a fix for this?
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############################################################################################
ERROR in action number 1
of Create Event for object <undefined>:

Scribble Deluxe 9.3.5:
Shader failed to compile. Please check your version of GameMaker is compatible
Please report this error if it persists

at gml_Script___scribble_error
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gml_Script___scribble_error (line -1)
gml_Script___scribble_initialize
gml_GlobalScript___scribble_system
 
Oct 11, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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This looks really cool, I can't wait for it to release! Especially with what the GameMaker engine can do, I'm sure this'll be a great game for sure!
Thank You :heart:
This project looks very nice and I wish you luck!

Also, I tried downloading your previous game (Schism... now there's a word I haven't heard in a long while...), and while there are probably better channels for asking this, I may as well put it here. Do you know of a fix for this?
___________________________________________
############################################################################################
ERROR in action number 1
of Create Event for object <undefined>:

Scribble Deluxe 9.3.5:
Shader failed to compile. Please check your version of GameMaker is compatible
Please report this error if it persists

at gml_Script___scribble_error
############################################################################################
gml_Script___scribble_error (line -1)
gml_Script___scribble_initialize
gml_GlobalScript___scribble_system
Oh strange, Scribble is a text rendering plugin so I'm not exactly sure what's failing. I can't really replicate it either- Are you running it on windows or on a different OS via something like wine/proton?
 
Oct 11, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Are you running it on windows or on a different OS via something like wine/proton?
This is Windows (10). It's a fairly old computer, in case that might be relevant.
 
Oct 11, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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This is Windows (10). It's a fairly old computer, in case that might be relevant.
If it's windows 10 I don't think the age of the computer should effect it much. I'll look through the plugin's issues on github and see if anyone else has encountered a similar issue.
 
Oct 11, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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This is Windows (10). It's a fairly old computer, in case that might be relevant.
The only cause I could really find was out of date gpu drivers or an old c++ runtime (it's probably the drivers), I'll keep looking into it but if ya can see if updating your gpu drivers fixes it.
 
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