The Sandbox Game Maker Guides: Add a NPC Healer

The Sandbox Game Maker Guides
2 min readNov 21, 2020

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This quick guide will show you how to Add a NPC Healer to your game in The Sandbox Game Maker.

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Game Maker Guides: Add a NPC Healer

If you still haven’t downloaded the Game Maker, or created a Sandbox account, start with the Alpha Tutorials.

Start by going to Templates and creating a new game from the LakeShores template.

LakeShores Template

Press the L key to open the asset library, then choose an asset to be your quest giver.

Place your healer away from predators and select it to view it’s Properties.

Under Behaviour, select Healer from the dropdown.

Turn the Walk Speed down to 1 so the asset will casually walk around.

You can use the slider or type in a value

Finally let’s add a Speaker component to help the player. Change the Wait For property to DetectEntity so the healer will detect the player.

Playtest your game to see how it works!

The NPC Healer will also heal Prey within it’s range!

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