Tether - Every Bond Drawn as a Cord, for GameMaker
A GameMaker asset from Core Systems Asset Factory. Made with GameMaker. Paid.
Tether - Every Bond Drawn as a Cord, for GameMaker is a GameMaker asset for GameMaker, paid.
The visual layer above your game's relationship system. Tether draws a chart page where every character is a medallion and every bond between two of them is a CORD: its material is the kind of bond, its weight is how strong it is, and its knots are the events that changed it. Pure GML, no image files. Most relationship systems end in a list of names and numbers.
Tether keeps your system and draws what it reports: love as round red silk, friendship as laid rope, an oath as a steel chain, a rivalry as barbed wire, family as a ribbon that turns over as it runs. A strained bond frays, its chain link hangs open, its wire snaps.
An event ties a knot: a loop of the cord itself, a padlock on an oath, a bow on family, each labelled. my_chart = tth_chart_create({ title: "The Company" }); tth_member(my_chart, "aldric", "Aldric", { face: spr_aldric_face, form: "studded" }); tth_bond(my_chart, "aldric", "isolde", 80, { kind: "love" }); tth_knot(my_chart, "aldric", "isolde", "Mother's Letter"); tth_chart_draw(my_chart, 0, 0, 1280, 720); // or..., "aldric") for his ledger What your players see Five materials at six weights, each with its own structure, not one line in five colours.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.