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GameMaker Programming By Example

GameMaker Programming By Example

By : Brian Christian, Steven Isaacs
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GameMaker Programming By Example

GameMaker Programming By Example

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By: Brian Christian, Steven Isaacs
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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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Introduction to GameMaker: Studio
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1. Introduction to GameMaker: Studio
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Choosing your version
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The GameMaker: Studio interface
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An example project
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Summary
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2. Your First Game – Escape the Dungeon
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2. Your First Game – Escape the Dungeon
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Creating your Escape the Dungeon game
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3. Introducing the GameMaker Language
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3. Introducing the GameMaker Language
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Remaking Escape the Dungeon in the GML
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4. Fun with Infinity and Gravity – An Endless Platformer
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4. Fun with Infinity and Gravity – An Endless Platformer
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Creating an endless platformer
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5. Saving and Loading Data
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5. Saving and Loading Data
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Putting in a scoring system
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Customizable controls
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6. A Multiplayer Sidescrolling Platformer
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6. A Multiplayer Sidescrolling Platformer
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Sprite animation
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Making your scrolling platformer scroll
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Client/server multiplayer networking
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Integrating Xbox gamepad support
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7. Programming a Scrolling Shooter
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7. Programming a Scrolling Shooter
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Creating the main ship
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Creating the enemies
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Programming a Boss AI
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Particles
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8. Introducing the GameMaker: Studio Physics Engine
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8. Introducing the GameMaker: Studio Physics Engine
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A physics game
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The physics engine in a regular game
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9. Wrapping Up
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9. Wrapping Up
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Debugging
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Helpful information on GameMaker
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Index
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Index

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Play around with some of the other actions on your obj_square to make it do more rather than be displayed and print text."

A block of code is set as follows:

if (keyboard_check_pressed(vk_up) && !binding) {
       if (choice <= 0) choice = 2;
       else --choice;
}

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "At the bottom of the resource tree are the Game Information and Global Game Settings options."

Note

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