Tutorial 16: Create a room with a view and camera effect A room with a view and camera, is when you create a large room but as a user plays the game, they only see a portion of the room at a time. This is useful when creating rooms for platform type games. Take for…
Creating a Score in Game Maker Studio 2 Create a score object , called it objScore Add a Create event to the object and setup a global variable to store the score: global.pscore = 0; Add a Draw event to this object to draw the score to the screen //draws the score in the top…
Tutorial 14: Creating a Light Effect in Game Maker Studio 2 You could demonstrate this effect in a separate room instead of your main playing room. If so, create a button to it on the start screen. Create a new object called objLight Add a Create event to this object with the following code: ///…
Tutorial 13: Creating a Player Healthbar In this tutorial we will learn how to create a player health bar by setting up a variable for the player health. The number assigned to this variable are the number of frames on the GIF. This tutorial could be replicated for lives. Create a Health Bar Sprite Create…
Tutorial 12. Creating a Start Room for your game There is a start button in the Asset Resources folder you can use. But I’d prefer if you created your own! You get marks for originality. You could use https://www.piskelapp.com/ for this. Create a start button Create a sprite for your button – call it sprStartButton…
Tutorial 11: Create an End Screen Based on the previous tutorial, on our players Step event, we said that when a players lives reach 0 we want the game to go to an end room. Create an End Room Duplicate your game room. Right click on the room in the Asset Browser and click duplicate….
In a computer game a sprite is the name usually given to a two-dimensional bitmap computer graphic, designed to be integrated into a level, intro or exit screen. They can be static or animated. History of sprites Sprites were commonly used in 2D game design in the 1980s and 1990s, for designing player and enemy characters, before…
Tutorial 10: Collisions and Health Setup In this tutorial, we will learn how to setup your player and enemy health and how to destroy them based on some collision rules. Set the player collision mask Go to the Resources menu: Open Sprites. Open your player sprite, sprPlayer Find Collision Mask in the Sprite window. Open…
Tutorial 9: Spawning Enemies First, what does spawning mean? Spawning refers to a method in game design where your enemies automatically get created You will want to make your enemies appear at random in a top-down or side-scrolling shooter game, so that they do not become predictable every time the game is played. Placing hundreds…
Tutorial 8: Creating Enemy Lazer / Bullet Go to the Assets Browser resources area menu: Right click on Sprites and click Create Sprite or you can click on Resources menu at the top of GameMaker studio. Make sure you name your sprites correctly – always prefix your sprites with the letter spr Name the sprite…