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GameMaker Programming By Example

By : Brian Christian, Steven Isaacs
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GameMaker Programming By Example

By: Brian Christian, Steven Isaacs

Overview of this book

This book is excellent resource for developers with any level of experience of GameMaker. At the start, we’ll provide an overview of the basic use of GameMaker: Studio, and show you how to set up a basic game where you handle input and collisions in a top-down perspective game. We continue on to showcase its more advanced features via six different example projects. The first example game demonstrates platforming with file I/O, followed by animation, views, and multiplayer networking. The next game illustrates AI and particle systems, while the final one will get you started with the built-in Box2D physics engine. By the end of this book, you have mastered lots of powerful techniques that can be utilized in various 2D games.

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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
GameMaker Programming By Example
GameMaker Programming By Example
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to GameMaker: Studio
Introduction to GameMaker: Studio
Choosing your version
The GameMaker: Studio interface
An example project
Summary
2
Your First Game – Escape the Dungeon
Your First Game – Escape the Dungeon
Creating your Escape the Dungeon game
Summary
3
Introducing the GameMaker Language
Introducing the GameMaker Language
Remaking Escape the Dungeon in the GML
Summary
4
Fun with Infinity and Gravity – An Endless Platformer
Fun with Infinity and Gravity – An Endless Platformer
Creating an endless platformer
Summary
5
Saving and Loading Data
Saving and Loading Data
Putting in a scoring system
Customizable controls
Summary
6
A Multiplayer Sidescrolling Platformer
A Multiplayer Sidescrolling Platformer
Sprite animation
Making your scrolling platformer scroll
Client/server multiplayer networking
Integrating Xbox gamepad support
Summary
7
Programming a Scrolling Shooter
Programming a Scrolling Shooter
Creating the main ship
Creating the enemies
Programming a Boss AI
Particles
Summary
8
Introducing the GameMaker: Studio Physics Engine
Introducing the GameMaker: Studio Physics Engine
A physics game
The physics engine in a regular game
Summary
9
Wrapping Up
Wrapping Up
Debugging
Helpful information on GameMaker
Summary
Index
Index

Chapter 3. Introducing the GameMaker Language

This chapter will introduce you to the GameMaker Language, which is the way that developers who use GameMaker: Studio explore its full possibilities and can directly program their games in a more authentic programming environment. We will focus on GameMaker Language (GML) for the remainder of this book. The previous chapter taught drag and drop programming to provide some familiarity with the GameMaker: Studio environment and provide a base game to model for this chapter. The first chapter taught many different basic aspects of programming in GameMaker, such as input, collision, variables, and more. Few people interested in making advanced games continue to work exclusively in the drag and drop environment, as there are a lot of reasons that the GML is far superior. If you have any experience with the Java or C++ programming languages, it might help, as those taught object-oriented principles, but is definitely not necessary:

  • When drag and drop...

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