GameMaker: Studio 100 Programming Challenges

  • 1h 15m
  • Ben Tyers
  • Apress
  • 2017

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 addi=tional 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.

About the Author

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.

In this Book

  • Maths Bar Graph
  • Draggable and Movable Object
  • Room Fade In and Out Transition
  • Typewriter Text Effect
  • Audio Volume Change Based on Distance
  • Move Object to Position Using Path
  • Make the Screen Shake
  • Create Snow Effect
  • Password Easter Egg
  • Follow Two Objects in View
  • High / Low Number Game
  • Calculate the Average Position of Two Clicks
  • Retrieve Text File from Web and Save Locally
  • Shuffle Pack of Playing Cards and Deal 5
  • Reverse Sentence Order
  • Rotate and Move Object to Mouse Position
  • Firework Display Using Effects
  • Random Sentence Generator
  • Pop-Up RPG Style Text Box
  • Room Wrapping
  • Sprite Shadow
  • Make a Jukebox Player for Four Songs
  • Scrolling Credits
  • Random Dice Roller
  • Substitution Cipher
  • Save Highscore to INI
  • Spawn Point
  • Dictionary Check
  • Draw Text with Shadow
  • Classic Brick and Ball Game Remake
  • Fire Projectile
  • World Clock
  • Text-Based Quiz
  • Onscreen Keyboard
  • Create a Drivable Tank That Leaves Tyre Tracks
  • Parallax Background
  • Click the Ghost
  • Particle Fire Effect
  • Bubble Sort
  • Unlockable Levels Select Screen
  • Moon Lander AI
  • Dodge the Barrels
  • Convert Celsius to Fahrenheit
  • Dart Board Game
  • Calculate BMI
  • Colour Picker
  • 10 Green Bottles
  • English to Morse Code
  • Blitz Game Remake
  • Mini Golf Game Remake
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors Game Remake
  • Health Based on Distance
  • Tank Trax Game Remake
  • Two Separate Views
  • Word Typing Game
  • Destructible Terrain
  • Duck Hunt Game Remake
  • Keep Player in View
  • Fizz Buzz
  • Calculate Numbers
  • Particle Trail Effect
  • Draw a Rectangle and Calculate Area and Perimeter
  • Tower Defense Game
  • Drop the Coin AKA Plinko (Arcade Style)
  • Calculate the Nth Result of Fibonacci Sequence
  • Distance from Object to Mouse
  • Convert Decimal to Binary, Oct, Hex, and Roman
  • Text in X Box
  • Frogger Game Remake
  • Take a Screenshot
  • Slowly Change Direction
  • Pong Style Game Remake
  • Shooting Gallery
  • How Many of Each Letter
  • Torpedo Game Remake
  • One Hundred Random Numbers
  • Coin Flip
  • Predict the Path of an Object
  • Dynamic Button
  • Sokoban Game Remake
  • Top Down Football
  • Top Down Racing
  • Convert Numbers (in Digits) to Words
  • Zelda Style Views
  • Convert Text File to eBook
  • Planets Database (INI)
  • How Much Flour
  • Rotating Mini Map
  • Selectable Troops
  • Pipes
  • Arcade Style Horse Race Game
  • Road Builder
  • Chess Board Representation
  • 1945 Game Remake
  • Create a Virtual ATM (Bank Teller)
  • Moon Lander Game Remake
  • Pixelate an Image
  • Miner
  • Follow Player (Ghost)
  • Multiplication Table
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