Making Your First Game: GameMaker Studio 2

Learn how actions move instances by changing x and y with arrow keys and Jump to Point, using relative values to move five pixels.

Learn to implement player movement, background elements, and shooting in an arcade shooter. Build enemies, health mechanics, scoring, power-ups, menus, high-score, and audio using provided resources.

Implement a room boundary by using the Intersect Boundary event and Jump to Point with xprevious and yprevious to return the player to the prior position when touching the edge.

Set up a manager object (oManager) and alarms to spawn island instances every second, using alarm 0, random x positions, and temporary variables to create islands above the room.

Create a bullet object that moves upward and is destroyed when it leaves the room, fired by pressing space from the player, using create instance at the player's position.

Explore if variable conditions, while loops, and for loops in game maker studio 2, with hands-on examples that increment a to 200 and use i to draw multiple values.

Display the player's health by drawing heart sprites in a for loop on the GUI layer using the Draw GUI event, running hp times and spacing hearts horizontally.

Display player points in the top right corner. Earn 100 points for enemy kills and lose 50 points when enemies go by, using the fntScore font.

Implement core score indicators in GameMaker Studio 2 by displaying added or removed points with green or red text that fades and moves upward, using a Create Indicator script.

Add music and sound effects in GameMaker Studio 2, including looping background music, shooting and explosion sounds, power-ups, and interactive menu hover and click cues.

Implement difficulty scaling in a GameMaker Studio 2 infinite scroller by introducing a growing difficulty variable that speeds up the background, islands, enemies, and power-ups over time.

Create a ship selector in GameMaker Studio 2 to switch between multiple ships via a global image_index, highlight selection, and apply it to the player and trail.

Wrap up the course by reflecting on progress and planning ongoing practice in game making. Create a new game each week or month to embrace experimentation and learn from mistakes.