Practical Gamemaker: Studio: Language Projects

ISBN-13: 9781484223727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 313 str.

Ben Tyers

Opis

Gain the skills required to create fun and compelling games using GameMaker: Studio, and its GML programming language. In this full-color book you'll learn 24 practical programming elements that are important when creating any game. Each section includes an introduction to a new programming element, some examples, a worksheet, and mini projects to allow you to test your new knowledge. After completing all elements, you will put into action what you have learned in a classic arcade style game.
In Practical GameMaker: Studio, you will create a fully featured game, with guidance and in color. After each section you'll see how you'll apply what you've learned to the final game, and discover additional projects to try. These mini projects include a separate scoring guide, and a working example for each, which is useful if you're using this book in an educational environment. Similarly, the book also contains a number of assignments, which you may include as part of any associated coursework in your classes.
What You Will Learn

• Use GameMaker: Studio and GameMaker Language (GML) to create games
  
• Work with GML variables, conditionals, drawing, keyport I/O, objects, and events
  
• Create GML sprites, health/lives, alarms, collisions, and rooms
  
• Improve your game with GML backgrounds, sound and music, splash screens and menus, and effects
• Include GML random and AI movements in your game
  
• Use GML loops, arrays, ds_lists, paths, and scripts
  

Who This Book Is For
Experienced game developers new to GameMaker or for those with at least some prior exposure or experience with GameMaker: Studio but who are new to GML.

Spis treści

0. Introduction

1. Variables 

2. Conditionals

3. Drawing 

4. Drawing Continued

5. Keyboard Input & Simple Movement

6. Objects & Events

7. Sprites 

8. Health, Lives & Score

9. Mouse

10. Alarms

11. Collisions

12. Rooms

13. Backgrounds

14. Sounds & Music

15. Splash Screens & Menu

16. Random

17. More Movement (Basic AI)

18. INI Files

19. Effects 

20. Loops

21. Arrays

22. ds_lists

23. Paths 

24. Scripts

25. Hints & Tips

26. Creating A Game - Outline

27 . Creating A Game -Sprites

28. Creating A Game -Sounds

29. Creating A Game -Backgrounds

30. Creating A Game -Paths

31. Creating A Game -Scripts

32. Creating A Game -Fonts

33. Creating A Game -Objects - Introduction

34. Creating A Game -Parent Objects

35. Creating A Game -Objects

36. Creating A Game -Rooms 

37. Progress Sheet

38. Marking Guide

39. End Of Project Assignment

40. End Of Project Test

O autorze

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.