Gamemaker: Studio 100 Programming Challenges

ISBN-13: 9781484226438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 210 str.

Ben Tyers

Opis

Push your GameMaker programming skills to the edge with 100 programming challenges using the popular GameMaker: Studio and GML. Each challenge includes an outline of the challenge, a scoring and time guide, useful GML code, and a working example provided in GMZ format. For more advanced programmers, each challenge comes with an additional task to complete.
Think you're a good GameMaker game application developer or programmer? Think again with this awesome book

What You'll Learn

• Upgrade your skills with each specific game application coding challenge
  
• Create many different game events, action or scenarios
  
• Code for many different kinds of game applications or themes from space to adventure to sports to fantasy
  

Who This Book Is For
GameMaker and GameMaker: Studio users and coders.

Spis treści

Challenge 1 Maths Bar Graph 1

Challenge 2 Clickable & Moveable Object 3

Challenge 3 Room Fade In & Out Transition 5

Challenge 4 Typewriter Text Effect 7

Challenge 5 Audio Volume Change Based On Distance 9

Challenge 6 Move Object To Position Using Path 11

Challenge 7 Make The Screen Shake 13

Challenge 8 Create Snow Effect 15

Challenge 9 Password Easter Egg 17

Challenge 10 Follow Two Objects In View 19

Challenge 11 High / Low Number Game 21

Challenge 12 Calculate Average Position Of Two Clicks 23

Challenge 13 Retrieve Text File Web From & Save Locally 25

Challenge 14 Shuffle Pack Of Playing Cards & Deal 5 27

Challenge 15 Reverse Sentence Order 29

Challenge 16 Rotate & Move Object To Mouse Position 31

Challenge 17 Firework Display Using Effects 33

Challenge 18 Random Sentence Generator 35

Challenge 19 Pop Up RPG Style Text Box 37

Challenge 20 Room Wrapping 39

Challenge 21 Sprite Shadow 41

Challenge 22 Make A Jukebox Player For 4 Songs 43

Challenge 23 Scrolling Credits 45

Challenge 24 Random Dice Roller 47

Challenge 25 Substitution Cipher 49

Challenge 26 Save Highscore To INI 51

Challenge 27 Spawn Point 53

Challenge 28 Dictionary Check 55

Challenge 29 Draw Text With Shadow 57

Challenge 30 Classic Brick & Ball Game Remake 59

Challenge 31 Fire Projectile 61

Challenge 32 World Clock 63

Challenge 33 Text Based Quiz 65

Challenge 34 On Screen Keyboard 67

Challenge 35 Create A Driveable Tank That Leaves Tyre Tracks 69

Challenge 36 Parallax Background 71

Challenge 37 Click The Ghost 73

Challenge 38 Particle Fire Effect 75

Challenge 39 Bubble Sort 77

Challenge 40 Unlockable Levels Select Screen 79

Challenge 41 Moon Lander AI 81

Challenge 42 Dodge The Barrels 83

Challenge 43 Convert Celsius To Fahrenheit 85

Challenge 44 Find Path To Position Avoiding Objects 87

Challenge 45 Calculate BMI 89

Challenge 46 Shuffle Pack Of Playing Cards & Save To Text 91

Challenge 47 10 Green Bottles 93

Challenge 48 English To Morse Code 95

Challenge 49 Blitz Game Remake 97

Challenge 50 Mini Golf Game Remake 99

Challenge 51 Rock, Paper, Scissors Game Remake 101

Challenge 52 Health Based On Distance 103

Challenge 53 Tank Trax Game Remake 105

Challenge 54 Two Separate Views 107

Challenge 55 Word Typing Game 109

Challenge 56 Destructible Terrain 111

Challenge 57 Duck Hunt Game Remake 113

Challenge 58 Keep Player In View 115

Challenge 59 Fizz Buzz 117

Challenge 60 Calculate Numbers 119

Challenge 61 Particle Trail Effect 121

Challenge 62 Draw Rectangle and Calculate Area & Perimeter 123

Challenge 63 Random Terrain Generation 125

Challenge 64 Drop The Coin (arcade style) 127

Challenge 65 Calculate the Nth Result Of Fibonacci Sequence 129

Challenge 66 Distance From Object To Mouse 131

Challenge 67 Convert Decimal To Binary, Oct, Hex & Roman 133

Challenge 68 Text In X Box 135

Challenge 69 Frogger Game Remake 137

Challenge 70 Take a Screen Shot 139

Challenge 71 Slowly Move Direction 141

Challenge 72 Pong Style Game Remake 143

Challenge 73 Shooting Gallery 145

Challenge 74 How Many Of Each Letter 147

Challenge 75 Torpedo Game Remake 149

Challenge 76 One Hundred Random Numbers 151

Challenge 77 Coin Flip 153

Challenge 78 Predict Path Of An Object 155

Challenge 79 Dynamic Button 157

Challenge 80 Sokoban Game Remake 159Challenge 81 Top Down Football 161

Challenge 82 Top Down Racing 163

Challenge 83 Convert Numbers (in digits) To Words 165

Challenge 84 Zelda Style Views 167

Challenge 85 Convert Text File To eBook 169

Challenge 86 Planets Database (INI) 171

Challenge 87 How Much Flour 173

Challenge 88 Rotating Mini Map 175

Challenge 89 Selectable Troops 177

Challenge 90 Pipes 179

Challenge 91 Arcade Style Horse Race Game 181

Challenge 92 Road Builder 183

Challenge 93 Chess Board Representation 185

Challenge 94 1942 Game Remake 187

Challenge 95 Create A Virtual ATM (bank teller) 189

Challenge 96 Moon Lander Game Remake 191

Challenge 97 Pixelate An Image 193

Challenge 98 Miner 195

Challenge 99 Follow Player (Ghost) 197

Challenge 100 Multiplication Table 199

Appendix A Points Chart

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Ben Tyers is an expert GameMaker: Studio user, developer, coder, expert and IT trainer.  He has authored a number of small books on GameMaker for game application developers and runs a popular GameMaker resources web site.

Blurb

Push your GameMaker programming skills to the edge with 100 programming challenges using the popular GameMaker: Studio and GML. Each challenge includes an outline of the challenge, a scoring and time guide, useful GML code, and a working example provided in GMZ format. For more advanced programmers, each challenge comes with an additional task to complete.

Think you're a good GameMaker game application developer or programmer? Think again with this awesome book!

You will:

• Upgrade your skills with each specific game application coding challenge
  
• Create many different game events, action or scenarios
  
• Code for many different kinds of game applications or themes from space to adventure to sports to fantasy