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…
Tutorial 18: Create a score that keeps its value between rooms Create an object called objVarPersist Add a Create event with this code: //create a global player score global.pscore = 0; Check the box Persistent Add this object to your first room. Do not add it to the second or additional rooms, as you only…
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…
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…
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 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….
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…
Over the coming weeks and months, we will explore how to build a simple 2D Top-Down Space Shooter computer game using the popular game development engine called GameMaker Studio. You will learn how to create sprites, learn to code to make your player move around a game environment, code spawning enemies, enemy collisions, making the…