Making Games with GameMaker Studio (GM2) Introduction Before you can start designing games, you need to understand what the following words used in Game Maker mean: rooms, backgrounds, objects, instances, actions, events, sprites, scripts Game Maker games take place in rooms. Think of a room as a level or scene for your game. Rooms have […]
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L1 GM2 RPG Skills 1 The following video will guide you through creating a simple game in GameMaker 2.This video shows how to get started with GameMaker 2 and introduces ROOMS, OBJECTS and SPRITES.To make things happen, you are shown how to enter an elementary code (GameMaker Language (GML), very similar to Javascript and Python)
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Haunted House Challenge 4 The following will guide you through the development of a simple game. Other activities will add room, objects, inventories and enemies. Using the coloured code below as a guide, modify and create your own code as shown in the coloured boxes: Done? Show your teacher and get your 8XP!Congratulations, you have
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Haunted House Challenge 3 The following will guide you through the development of a simple game. Other activities will add room, objects, inventories and enemies.CODING TIMEEnter the following code for the third stage and test it.In this third version of the game, the player’s moves and interactions are contained in dictionaries and lists. This make
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Haunted House Challenge 2 The following will guide you through the development of a simple game. Other activities will add room, objects, inventories and enemies.CODING TIMEEnter the following code for the second stage and test it.In this second version of the game, the player makes moves in many directions and either escapes or dies!– Using
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Haunted House Challenge 1 – 4XP The following will guide you through the development of a simple game. Other activities will add room, objects, inventories and enemies. CODING TIMEEnter the following code for the first stage and test it.In this first version of the game, the player makes only one single move and the quits
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Haunted House – 4 10 Add Rooms, Inventory and MonstersExtra Room and Items and Random Start functionThis code extends/expands the scope of the game by adding a kitchen, a lamp, a knife, a key and a dragon.These items are set in rooms using a random value (1, 2, 3) at the start, with corresponding changes
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Haunted House – 3 Pattern recognitionThe second stage of computational thinking is called pattern recognition. This involves finding patterns in data and making sense of data. 7. Data StructuresOne thing to notice about the last solution is that it requires lots of ugly IF, THEN, ELSE statements, with some even nested inside others!Your game only
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Haunted House – 2 6. Adding More Movement:The following will guide you through the development of a simple game. Now to add two more features to make your game more interesting.* The game must keep going until the player enters quit or goes into a room and dies.* If a player tries to move outside
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Python 3 Text Game Challenge – 1 Follow the video tutorial to create the first page of a text adventure game : “Dragon Slayer” Skills needed for: Python ASCII RPG Tutorial #1 (Basics, Main Menu, Saving)
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