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Building a Crafting Game: GameMaker Studio 2
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Building a Crafting Game: GameMaker Studio 2

Learn the ins and outs of GameMaker while developing your own resource gathering game!
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4.7 (122 ratings)
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512 students enrolled
Created by Gurpreet Singh Matharoo
Last updated 7/2020
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Building a Crafting Game: GameMaker Studio 2
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This course includes
  • 5 hours on-demand video
  • 5 articles
  • 1 downloadable resource
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Certificate of Completion
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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
Expand all 53 lectures 05:00:00
+ – Introduction to GameMaker
7 lectures 44:32
Course Promo
Preview 01:06
GameMaker's Interface
Preview 07:32
What are Events?
Preview 03:49
GameMaker Language: Functions
07:26
GameMaker Language: Variables
10:25
More about Variables
01:42
GameMaker Language: Conditions
12:32
+ – Game Basics
9 lectures 29:36
Introduction (Resources)
00:16
Player Input & Movement
Preview 05:32
Resource Name Prefixes
00:20
Adding a Camera
06:36
Sprites & Animation
Preview 04:02
Collisions
06:58
Depth Ordering
02:36
Facing the Mouse
02:34
How to build an executable
00:42
+ – Foraging Resources
10 lectures 43:20
Breakable Objects
04:49
Creating the Pickaxe
04:18
What is Lerp?
02:52
Using the Pickaxe
04:47
Selector GUI
04:49
Breakable Healthbar
03:06
What are Arrays?
01:26
Creating Resources
Preview 08:19
Item Drop Animation
03:48
Adding More Resources
05:06
+ – Inventory Systems
6 lectures 36:09
What are For Loops?
01:43
Stackable Inventory
08:50
Pausing
Preview 06:24
Inventory Limiting
03:52
Inventory Interface - Part 1
11:42
Inventory Interface - Part 2
03:38
+ – Crafting Systems
8 lectures 54:55
Crafting UI
08:08
Title Buttons
04:41
Scrolling
05:15
Item Display
Preview 06:49
Recipes
07:12
Crafting!
12:29
Dropping Items: Manual Dropping
06:55
Dropping Items: Automatic Removal
03:26
+ – Game Essentials
6 lectures 46:00
Hearts (and Half Hearts)
07:19
Enemies - Part 1 (Objects)
07:48
Enemies - Part 2 (AI)
11:31
Attacking The Enemies
06:00
Getting Attacked
07:22
Using Items
06:00
+ – More Craftiness!
3 lectures 21:34
Placing Blocks: Pt. 1
08:22
Placing Blocks: Pt. 2
06:40
Placing Mode: Updates
06:32
+ – Juice!
3 lectures 23:22
Juice: Scaling Animations
10:01
Flashing Colors (with Shaders)
Preview 10:16
Juice: Player & Enemies
03:05
Requirements
  • A Windows or Mac computer
  • Free trial or paid version of GameMaker Studio 2 installed
Description

Hi there!

This course is all about developing a crafting game, in GameMaker Studio 2. We'll learn to code with GameMaker Language and develop our game from the ground up!


New Updates! Place crafted items into the game world with "Placing Mode", and make your game feel professional with juicy animations!


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've also been featured on the official YoYo Games blog as a guest writer.


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!


Support

I'm always active in the Q&A forum, so if you ever need to ask any questions or clear any doubts, I'll be there to answer them!

You'll also 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 Studio 2
  • Developers somewhat experienced in GMS2 but looking for more learning opportunities