GameMaker: Studio

GameMaker: Studio

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Making Games - Video tutorial series
By SaraJayEss
A high quality in-depth series of beginner and intermediate video tutorials and guides for making your own games with Game Maker: Studio.

www.gamemakertutorials.com
   
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Game Maker Basics

Difficulty: Absolute Beginner
A detailed overview of the basics of using Game Maker: Studio. Learn how a project is put together, how objects, rooms, backgrounds and sprites interact with each other to form a game. Watch in 1080p for maximum awesome.
Basic Movement - Drag and Drop

Difficulty: Beginner
A detailed tutorial explaining how to make an object move around in response to keyboard input in GameMaker: Studio. 1080p is reccomended to help read menu items!
Basic Movement - Using GML script

Difficulty: Beginner
A continuation of the previous movement tutorial exploring your options with GML, along with showing you how to keep the object inside the room. 1080p is reccomended to help read menu items!
Basic Projectiles

Difficulty: Beginner (assumes basic knowledge of objects and sprites)
How to make a spaceship shoot projectiles. This video covers the basics, part 2 will go into more depth on how to do more with projectiles.
Enemies and Hitpoints

Difficulty: Beginner/Intermediate (GML Only)
A tutorial explaining the concepts of making shootable 'enemies' and making them interact with projectiles in GameMaker: Studio.

Covers basic collisions and variables.

Download the GMX for this tutorial: http://adf.ly/HGvj1
Rotating Objects

Difficulty: Beginner
A short video explaining the concept of image_angle and how to make an object's sprite point in it's direction of travel.
Alarms and More Projectiles

Difficulty: Beginner/Intermediate (GML only)
A tutorial expanding upon the previous projectiles tutorial showing you how to fire streams of projectiles and adjust their direction. Also introduces the concept of alarms and shows you how to time certain events in your game.
Platform Games - In-depth special!

Difficulty: Intermediate
A lengthy indepth look at how to begin coding a platform game using only GML. Every line of code is explained.

This one is a bit experimental, I know people have been after platformer content for some time so I wanted to get something out there for you guys. It's a bit long, and is a jump up in difficulty from many of my previous tutorials. It is reccomended that you have watched and understood all of my past videos starting from Game Maker Basics.

Download the GMX for this tutorial:
http://adf.ly/HNh1I
Particle Effects
Double Jump & Ceiling Collisions
Cameras & Views
Animations
Credits & Contact
Intro clip animation by Hassan Otsmane Elhaou - http://www.hassanoe.co.uk/
Intro music by Matthew Harrington - http://matthewfreakingharrington.com/

All other content created by Shaun Spalding - http://www.shaunspalding.co.uk

Buy my game, Perspective! Only $1 at Indievania: http://www.indievania.com/games/perspective


Twitter : @shaunspalding
Email : Shaun.Spalding@gmail.com
37 Comments
[=Bash=] 22 Sep, 2024 @ 10:05am 
Sara? :cozypoewitch:
WhyAlwaysMe 29 Dec, 2018 @ 5:51pm 
can you do games like A Slots machine in there?
big man 10 Sep, 2017 @ 6:17am 
Hey shaun, if you don't mind, could you add the Text Box tutorials, and the signpost one?
HunterKiller 6 Mar, 2017 @ 4:38am 
Why is that?
MightyOwl 18 Nov, 2016 @ 4:28pm 
GMS links have been removed by Steam.
OnyxGull 11 Sep, 2016 @ 9:28am 
ok so i have gravity in my game but when i jump i go flying to the right..... how do i stop that you know.... how do i set the gravity down
Taragoth 3 Sep, 2016 @ 10:21pm 
Thanks for the tutes Shaun and grats on the job at YoYo! Been a subscriber on Youtube for a while, your a real inspiration mate!
Glass of water™ 26 May, 2016 @ 7:23am 
Thanks! This is extremely helpful!
PelicanPirate 16 Jan, 2016 @ 5:29am 
Wow, this looks like some really useful stuff to look back on if I get stuck at all! I can definitely see a lot of these coming in handy. :)
Holmes_Qi 1 Jan, 2016 @ 10:54pm 
good guide!!!!thanks