You did good! But what actually is this?

Download and install Game Maker. It is FREE! This guide is fresh from Game Maker’s own site.

Jump right in to a project ready to go, and start building!

Find out what code is.

What is a Variable and how do we use it?

How does the computer know where to draw the player?

Hey ya good question. What is in my Computer?

Check out the different types of brackets and how they are used.

Let’s get this going! Start a project.

Use Game Maker drawing tools to draw something cool.

Create an Object to hold your Sprite.

Let’s create a Room for your Objects.

Let’s looks at what “Tabs” are.

What is the Asset Browser?

Make some ground for your room.

Start by making a Sprite.

Let’s make an object for our ground, and assign it our new ground sprite.

Turn physics on and set the density, so it doesn’t fall down with gravity.

Turn physics on for the room and put some players in.

Let’s see if our physics set-up worked.

Forget all this coding right now. Just copy and paste it, and let’s go!

If you’re feeling brave, let’s code all the movement from scratch! I’ll take you through it step by step

Make the player move Right.

Move up, or jump I suppose.

You need this if you’re going to do a top down Zelda type game.

Anything without room Gravity.

Turn Gravity off in the Room, and check that out.

What is the movement code doing? How does it work?

Your first Game Level! But let’s change the block a bit first.

Let’s prepare the Room a bit for a nice Level Build.

Learn to manipulate blocks in all sorts of ways. Now build your Maze!

Make sure the gravity settings are all good then play this thing!

Let’s turn gravity On and make this Level more Platformer like.

Let’s get this room better suited for a platformer. You can just sit back and watch.

Let’s teak the Gravity settings of the room physics, so the player controls feel better.

Let’s finally turn the player rotating off… if you want! Also last few tweaks and we are done!

Tweak the Jump Height settings to get the player really feeling right.

Learn to zoom in and out and reposition the Room Window to make it easy to work in.

Learn about room layers and the problems they can cause you and how to fix them.

Try out the ultimate Smash Mode set up!

Can you code this? This is your first code challenge!

Try Out this Hidden Block level set-up. It’s a super cool game mechanic that you should add to your project.