Have you ever wondered how these games are created? Do you love playing games and also want to create your own cool games? If your answer is yes then this book is for you. Game Maker for Beginners provides step by step tutorials for Game Maker to create wonderful games. In this journey you will learn about different type of games, how game works, basic GML(Game Maker Language) and particles etc. You will be creating four games throughout this book. In the end you will be creating a top down plane dogfight game.
Learning Game development is a very huge task, but with the blend of Game Maker and simple approach we can learn the basics easily. The games created in this book are created by Game maker 8. You can also use 7 or 8.1 to create them. So you don’t have to worry about having an older version of Game Maker. But using Pro version is recommended.
You will find:
Step by step Tutorials
Full of screenshots
Focus on beginners
Simple and under stable language
Learn GML
Topic on various aspects of Game development- How to stay motivated, Get new ideas.
Total pages: 140
Contents
Chapter 1: Games ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1
Chapter 2: Understanding Your Tool---------------------------------------------------- 5
Chapter 3: Creating Your First Game------------------------------------------ 15
Chapter 4: Creating Your Second Game---------------------------------------- 33
Chapter 5: Learn Game Maker Language--------------------------------- 46
Chapter 6: Creating a Platformer game-------------------------------------------- 59
Chapter 7: Creating a Top-Down Plane Dogfight Game-------------------------------- 86
Chapter 8: Creating a Top-Down Plane Dogfight Game: Journey continues------------ 103
Chapter 9: Playing With Particles----------------------------------------------------------- 118
Chapter 10: Finalizing Your Game------------------------------------------------------ 128
Note: The Real book page count of the book is 140 in PDF version . By default Amazon is showing 160 pages for Kindle edition.
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