GameMaker Game Programming with GML
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Getting Started – An Introduction to GML
- Getting Started – An Introduction to GML
- Creating GML scripts
- Understanding parts of GML scripts
- Pushing your buttons
- Summary
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Random Organization – Creating a Puzzle Game
- Random Organization – Creating a Puzzle Game
- Understanding sprite variables and functions
- Setting up the puzzle game
- Aligning the pieces of the puzzle game to a grid
- Understanding and utilizing randomization
- Checking pieces
- Running it all together
- Summary
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So How Do I Play? – Adding Player Interaction
- So How Do I Play? – Adding Player Interaction
- Designing player interaction
- Creating resources to integrate mouse input into the puzzle game
- Updating organization with scr_reorganize_board
- Integrating keyboard input
- Summary
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Juicy Feedback – Aural and Visual Effects
- Juicy Feedback – Aural and Visual Effects
- Introducing alarms
- Hiding the pin drop – adding audio
- Creating sound resources
- Visualizing effects with particles
- Integrating particles
- Summary
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Solving the Puzzle – Finishing Touches to the Puzzle Game
- Solving the Puzzle – Finishing Touches to the Puzzle Game
- Drawing and graphical user interface
- Gathering resources for creating the main menu
- Scripting obj_main_menu
- Changing obj_grid_manager
- Integrating score and time
- Summary
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Finite State Machines – Starting the 2D Platformer
- Finite State Machines – Starting the 2D Platformer
- Introducing finite state machines
- Gathering resources for the platformer
- Defining Vlad's state constants
- Starting Vlad's events and scripts – walking
- Summary
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It's in the Name – Platforms and Collisions
- It's in the Name – Platforms and Collisions
- Collision – a crash course
- Gathering resources to build platforms
- Populating the room
- Working with Collision events
- Moving platforms with paths
- Integrating the moving platforms
- Preventing Vlad from leaving
- Knowing the design ahead of time (when possible)
- Summary
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Setting the Stage – Views, Backgrounds, and Tiles
- Setting the Stage – Views, Backgrounds, and Tiles
- Expanding the room – views
- Adjusting view parameters
- Preparing the game for obj_camera
- Setting the environment – backgrounds
- Introducing tiles
- Summary
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Breaking Vlad – Pickups, Hazards, and Enemies
- Breaking Vlad – Pickups, Hazards, and Enemies
- Tracking health with Draw and Draw GUI
- Working with pickups
- Dying from hazards
- Fighting the player with enemies
- Summary
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GOAL – Timelines and Feedback Review
- GOAL – Timelines and Feedback Review
- GOAL!
- Introducing timelines
- Gathering resources for integrating the timeline
- Creating and applying the timeline
- Reviewing polish, feedback, and juiciness
- Providing feedback when Vlad is damaged
- Extending the enemy death sequence
- Summary
- In closing...