The next step in our game will be to program the enemies and give them a simple AI. The first part of the process is to create an enemy sprite. Since we're going to have you create an enemy with a specific routine, you should either use the sprite provided in the example project or you should create a 32 x 32 enemy sprite with a single subimage that is intended to rotate and shoot two bullets, one out of each side. When you're done with creating the subimage, modify the mask as usual and also center the origin of the sprite. After this, create an enemy object and assign it the proper sprite.
GameMaker uses the object-oriented programming paradigm, as you've probably noticed by now. Most of what we do is in objects, and even the resources that aren't called objects are actually objects in terms of object-oriented programming. They just can't do what GameMaker objects do. So rooms are objects, backgrounds are objects, everything is an object. And what...