Create Particle Effects in GameMaker Studio 2

ByTomas 09/11/202009/05/2022

Tutorial 17: Creating Particle Effects in GameMaker Studio 2 What are particle effects? Particles are graphic resources that have certain properties which are defined within a particle system. These properties cannot be manipulated directly for individual particles but are changed through the code that is used to define the individual particle and the system that it belongs to. They are very useful for creating beautiful and flashy effects (or subtle and discreet ones!) like explosions, decals, rain, snow, star fields and debris in a game without the CPU overhead that using instances has. The basic setup for a particle system

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Create a room with a view & camera to follow player

ByTomas 08/11/202009/05/2022

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…

Game Design

Create enemy waves

ByTomas 04/12/202009/05/2022

To create enemy waves You need to have followed the tutorial on creating a persistent object in the previous tutorialCreate a score that keeps its value between rooms. Add this global variable to the Create event of objVarPersist: global.wave=1; Create an object called objEnemyWaves In Create event add the following code: //wait 10 seconds for…

Game Design

Physics in Game Maker Studio 2

ByTomas 29/03/2020

Physics in Game Maker Studio 2 The following is an introduction demo of how physics can work in Game Maker Studio 2. It will give you an introduction of how you could implement it in your game. Step 1: Create Sprites for Physics Objects The sprites you need for this demo can be downloaded from…

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Collision and Health Setup

ByTomas 29/07/202009/05/2022

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…

Game Design

Create an end screen for your game

ByTomas 14/10/202009/05/2022

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….

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Creating a Game Room with a moving background

ByTomas 10/01/202010/02/2022

Tutorial 4: Creating a Game Room in GameMaker Studio 2 Change the Room size In the Assets Browser menu, double click the room that you want to add a background to. The default room is Room1 If you don’t see the Layers panel for the room appear on the left side of GameMaker, go to…

Create Particle Effects in GameMaker Studio 2

Create a room with a view & camera to follow player

Create enemy waves

Physics in Game Maker Studio 2

Collision and Health Setup

Create an end screen for your game

Creating a Game Room with a moving background

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