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Building a Crafting Game, with GameMaker
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(828 ratings)
3,580 students

Building a Crafting Game, with GameMaker

Learn the ins and outs of GameMaker while developing your own resource gathering game!
Created byGurpreet Singh Matharoo
Last updated 5/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • Create your own 2D games
  • Learn how to code
  • Add juicy animations to your game
  • Use data structures for your inventory systems
  • Build a Crafting system with GML
  • Make user interfaces with object hierarchies

Course content

11 sections • 61 lectures • 6h 1m total length

  • Course Promo1:06

    This is the course promo you see on the landing page.

  • GameMaker's Interface7:32

    In this lecture, we make ourselves familiar with the GameMaker interface, and learn about its components.

  • What are Events?3:49

    GameMaker games are structured around events, which are an integral part of objects -- so let's see what they're all about!

  • GameMaker Language: Functions7:26

    Our first step to coding in GameMaker is to learn about functions, which are used to give commands to the engine!

  • Functions Quiz!
  • GameMaker Language: Variables10:25

    Math is an important part of coding, but you don't want raw values floating around your code! Let's use variables to clean up our arithmetic operations.

  • Variables Quiz!
  • More about Variables1:42
  • GameMaker Language: Conditions12:32

    Functions are used to give commands to the engine, but you don't want to be running all functions all the time! Let's use conditions to control when a block of code runs.

  • Conditions Quiz!

Requirements

  • A Windows or Mac computer
  • Free or paid version of GameMaker installed

Description

Hi there!

This course is all about developing a crafting game, in GameMaker. We'll learn to code with GameMaker Language and develop our game from the ground up!


About the Instructor

Hi, I'm Gurpreet S. Matharoo! I've been teaching game development for years, and making games for longer. I've taught over 5 courses on Udemy, published numerous tutorial posts on my blog, and regularly create free tutorials on my YouTube channel, GameMakerStation. I also work at YoYo Games as the Technical Writer for GameMaker.


About the Course

Whether you're a beginner with no coding background, or a game developer looking to gain more experience; this course will help you get where you need to be. We're gonna go through many practical lessons, learning something new at each step!

Here are some things we'll be learning in this course:

  • GameMaker Language basics

  • Player movement with pickaxe

  • Resolution handling

  • Breaking objects with pickaxe

  • Setting up data with arrays and enums

  • Stacking inventory using data structures

  • User interfaces

  • Crafting systems

  • and more!

This course is based on v2.2 of GameMaker Studio, but includes updated lectures communicating the structural changes introduced in v2.3.


Support

You'll be given a download to the finished project, along with all the resource files used. You can simply use the given images to build the game, so that you don't have to create your own sprites.

I'm looking forward to you joining the course. Let's start our journey!

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone looking to get into game development for the first time
  • Beginners in game development or GameMaker
  • Developers somewhat experienced in GM but looking for more learning opportunities

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