Gamemaker essentials : learn all the essential skills of GameMaker: Studio and start making your own impressive games with ease / Nathan Auckett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auckett, Nathan, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Design.

Video games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book is for users experienced with game development who now want to learn how to develop games in GameMaker: Studio in a fast-paced way.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Introducing GameMaker""; ""Understanding GameMaker""; ""GameMaker: Studio""; ""Installing GameMaker: Studio""; ""What is this book about?""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 2: Getting Started""; ""Licensing""; ""The welcome window""; ""The main toolbar""; ""The drop-down menus""; ""The resource tree""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3: Resource Management""; ""Resources in GameMaker""; ""Sprites""; ""Sounds""; ""Backgrounds""; ""Paths""; ""Scripts""

""Shaders""""Fonts""; ""Timelines""; ""Objects""; ""Rooms""; ""Extensions""; ""Macros""; ""Resource naming conventions""; ""Organizing resources""; ""Groups""; ""Sprite animations""; ""Importing and exporting resources""; ""Importing graphics and sounds""; ""Importing GameMaker resources""; ""Exporting resources""; ""Exporting scripts""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 4: Objects""; ""Events""; ""The step event""; ""Room speed""; ""The draw event""; ""Parents""; ""Making a parent""; ""Parents and collisions""; ""Depth""; ""Depth ordering""; ""Changing an object's depth""; ""Drag and drop""

""Creating a sprite""""Making our object""; ""Creating a room""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5: The GameMaker Language (GML)""; ""Variables""; ""Instance variables""; ""Local variables""; "" Global variables""; ""Macros""; ""Arrays""; ""One-dimensional arrays""; ""Two-dimensional arrays""; ""Functions""; ""Statements and loops""; ""Statements""; ""The if statement""; ""The else statement""; ""The else if statement""; ""Loops""; ""The repeat loop""; ""The while loop""; ""The for loop""; ""Scripts""; ""Creating a script""; ""Naming a script""; ""Writing a script""; ""Executing a script""

""Arguments in scripts""""Argument hints in scripts""; ""Returning a value""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 6: Sprites""; ""Loading a sprite""; ""Sprite options""; ""Sprite origins""; ""Collision masks""; ""Editing a collision mask""; ""Texture settings""; ""Sprite sizing techniques""; ""The power of two""; ""Templates""; ""Editing a sprite""; ""Starting from scratch""; ""Effects""; ""Sprites in GameMaker Language""; ""Setting an object's sprite""; ""Getting the width and height of a sprite""; ""Getting the offset of a sprite""; ""Setting the animation speed of a sprite""

""Setting the frame of a sprite""""Setting the alpha of a sprite""; ""Setting the rotation of a sprite""; ""Changing the scale of a sprite""; ""Finding out how many subimages a Sprite has""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 7: Making a Game""; ""Making the sprites""; ""Room setup""; ""Views""; ""Object creation""; ""Programming the game""; ""Collectables""; ""Enemies""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 8: Debugging""; ""Errors""; ""Undeclared variable""; ""Drawing information""; ""Drawing text""; ""Drawing lines and shapes""; ""Simple toggles""; ""The GameMaker debugger""; ""Summary""

""Chapter 9: Game Settings and Exporting""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 13, 2015).

ISBN:

9781784390518

1784390518

OCLC:

908064416