Game. Maker is a seminal game engine, with roots dating back to the late 1. It is a cross platform 2. D game engine with tools that run on Windows and Mac machines while capable of targeting both desktop operating systems as well as Ubuntu Linux, Android, i. OS, UWP, HTML5, XBox One and Play. Station 4 consoles. Game. Maker is commercial software with a free trial available, we will discuss pricing shortly. The closer look series is a combination of overview, review and getting started tutorial aimed at helping you decide if a given engine is the right choice for you. As always, there is an HD video version available herecoming soon and embedded below. Lets jump right in with Game. Harga Acer Aspire One 725 Windows 7. Maker Studio 2 The Tools. Game. Maker Studio is an all in one integrated environment for creating games. It includes everything you need in a single application with a tabbed working environment and a unique virtual desktop style approach supporting multiple editing windows at once. The all in one all tools at hand nature of Game. Making top 2D games with the GameMaker Studio game engine is easy. No code or programming required. Maker is probably one of its greatest selling points. The Main Interface. Side and bottom panels can be collapsed down to give more room The primary work area is tabbed, supporting multiple open views at once As mentioned earlier, GMS has a workspace setup that enables you to work with and pan between multiple editors at once, like a giant virtual desktop. The resource panel is commonly used across the various editors and contains the various assets that make up your game. You can also drag and drop assets onto this window to import them for use in your game. For example, dropping in an image file will create a new Sprite entity for you. You can also create new entities via the dynamic right click menu. For example, right clicking the Tile Sets area will bring up this menu The Room Editor. This is your traditional level editor, where you can create various layers of entities that compose your game level. A top left you have the layers controls, enabling you to createdeletehide the various layers that make up your game. Layers can be composed of instances objects, backgrounds, tile maps and paths. The editors below the layer controls change dynamically based on what kind of layer is selected. Selecting a tile layer brings up the tile map editing tools, including a palette of tiles you can paint with. GMS even has support for auto tiling, if your tileset is compatible. The Sprite Editor. This editor enables you to define how a sprite is imported, the various frames of animation if any as well as a preview of the sprite or animation. Additionally, clicking Edit Image brings up a full blown image editor within Game. Maker. This is a full blown sprite editing package with a variety of brushes available, full layer support, the ability to paint across frames, several tools such as text tools, polygon tools, a magic wand selection tool, mirroring tools and more. Pretty much all the functionality you would expect for creating or editing sprites is available directly in GMS. If you want to make an Android app but dont know how to code, one of many Android app makers can help. Here is an list of many options. Over the years many of the features that help make Apolyton great were lost. See what were digging up from the pastSound Editor. You also have control over sound effect details via the sound editormixer. Supported audio files include wav, mp. Tileset Editor. As mentioned earlier, the room editor has full support for tileset layers. There is an editor for defining tilesets as well as defining auto tiling support. There are also editors for defining tile animations and creating predefined tile brushes. Path Editor. This editor is used to define paths, either straight line or curves. Often used for AI paths, the generated paths can be used and editing directly in the room editor. Script Editor. This is the built in editor for developing games using Game. Maker Script.   It has syntax highlight, code suggestions and a selection of other features. The code editor is also used for shaders. Drag and Drop Editor. In addition to GMS scripting, Game. Maker also provides a drag and drop programming option. You can use drag and drop from the toolbox to script your programs behaviour. We will cover both programming options in more detail shortly. Font Editor. Enables you to import and preview fonts for use in your game. Fonts can be in either true type or open font formats. Object Editor. The Object Editor is where you will start to tie your various resources together. For example, your main character will be an object that connects to a sprite, while handling various different events. Objects are created in the Object Layers in the room editor and generally represent the entities that make up your world. We will look at objects in a bit more detail later. Programming In Game. Maker. You may be wondering at this point how exactly you implement gameplay logic in your Game. Maker game  Essentially you attach logic to objects in the game world. When you edit an object you will notice there is an Events option. Click the Add Event button and you will see the various events you can respond to in your game These are called at various points by the game engine and are analogous to the game loop in other engines. Step is called once per pass through the game loop and is most commonly where you will handle update logic. There are also events for when the object is created, destroyed, etc as well as various options for responding directly to events such as collisions, touches, etc. You can also wire up code to be called when a Room is created, via the Creation Code button Next its a matter of deciding HOW you want to program in Game. Maker, via Drag and Drop as well as directly using Game. Maker scripting. Scripting. Scripting is done using Game Maker Language, or GML, which is a C like scripting language. The syntax is fairly simple and if youve had any prior C, Python, C or similar language experience, picking the language up should be fairly simple. There are built in methods for most functions you would want to perform such as graphics drawing, audio code, networking, platform specific tasks like in app purchases etc. There are also built in data types such as Stacks, Lists, Maps and Queues. Actually teaching GML is beyond the scope of this document but you can access the language reference here. If functionality is lacking it may be available on the Game. Maker Market Place or you can add it yourself by creating a native extension. You can add new functions to GML in this manner. Drag And Drop. Programming via drag and drop in Game. Maker is your other option and is a great choice for people that just want to jump in and figure things out on their own. Dont worry too much about performance as the Dn. D code is ultimately generating GML script so performance should be roughly the same. In fact, you can switch freely between the two programming methods at will within the same project or call GML directly in your Dn. D script. Creating scripts in Dn. D is as simple as dragging in predefined functions to create a flow chart of sorts that occurs top down, like so Once again, you can freely switch between the two methods. Additionally, in any script your can right click and select Convert To Drag and Drop. A reference of all the drag and drop tiles is available here. The Price. Game. Maker is commercial software, so that means there is a price tag attached. There are multiple versions available for Game. Maker as well as addition platforms coming with an additional price tag. Pricing as of today, 1. In addition to these various different platforms, there is also now a new 3. Imaginary Monsters. Some of my favorite Game. Maker resources. I started messing around with Game. Maker back in Summer 2. The closest things comparable I had done were miscellaneous html and css work and some basic Flash AS2 projects way back around 2. I found documentation on GML scripting and other topics to be very accessible after some searching. Im hoping to add to and edit this post over time so it can continue to be a relevant resource. Below are some of the more useful tutorials and topics Ive found while working with Game. Maker Studio. Getting started. Shaun Spaldinghttps www. Greyfox. Main platformer demo https www. Iys. Sh. LIaosk. Shaun Spalding has a solid series of digestible topic based tutorials. Some are one offs and others have continuity from one to the next. Lots of good information on starting out setting up a platformer and also some useful simple to implement topics like setting up game saves. Tig. Forums Game. Maker tutorials by Derek Yuhttp forums. Some of these tutorials may be a little outdated, but the topics are broken down really well. These were written by Derek Yu of Spelunky fame. Theyre worth browsing through to find useful things, like how to set up a sprite font and use it in game. Best Practices When Coding in Game. Maker Studiohttp www. This one is less programming specific and more of general advice on things to aspire for or avoid in project organization. Opinions may differ and some of this might seem a little abstract coming from the start, but a lot of the info in here is good having in mind before you even begin a project. Cool specific topics and tutorials. Switch case and state machineshttp gmc. Trying to plan out how youll program a complex phase based boss or a game element that needs to transition between discreet stages Wrap your head around handling this in a state machine using a switch or else you may find yourself in situations where you have overlapping if conditions, or difficulty flagging variables on and off to switch you between your states. Switch states need to be defined as macros constants in order to work which some people find tedious, but its well worth it for the amount of control and clarity it gives you. CSANYK Drawing texthttps csanyk. CSANYK has a lot of interesting topic tutorials. Im only calling out the drawing text one since Ive referred back to it many times. Yellow Afterlife Game. Maker tutorialshttp yal. The same goes for YAL. Lots of interesting stuff and things you didnt realize you could do or you would want to do until you see them. Dive in Starting with gamepadshttp www. Gamepad deadzones and analog stick setuphttps www. General topic interesting stuff. Jan Willem Nijmans presentation on Game Feelhttp www. Vlambeercofoundersharesadviceonbuildingbetteractiongames. Other advice. Search wiselyI find when trying to learn new software for design or now for programming a main early hurdle is just knowing what to call the thing you are trying to do in relation to the environment youre trying to do it in. Especially in Game. Maker, since there are so many built in functions with names that make sense to me in game speak, once you know what something is called you can much easier find out how to do it. Starting off with I want to have these things do this, and then go like this might be distillable down into a noun or a verb you can search around. Use that middle mouse button scroll wheel When youre coding in GML you can click on functions and engine constants with the middle mouse button as a shortcut for bringing up the manual entry for that element. This is great if you know what a function is named but need to refresh yourself on proper syntax or arguments that you can pass through. R. T. F. M. in this case, read the frigging awesome manual. Continuing from the previous point, the manual is full of practical examples of code snippets and some useful suggestions here and there. You dont need it from cover to cover, but spend some time looking at adjacent functions relating to the task youre trying to do. Ive found it very easy to browse and navigate.