GameMaker Coding Beginner

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GameMaker Coding Beginner

R799 per month (one hour per week) R300 ad-hoc lesson R150 Demo lesson 30 minute 1 Year (40 one hour lessons, 10 per…

2 March 2025

About Course

R799 per month (one hour per week)

R300 ad-hoc lesson

R150 Demo lesson 30 minute

1 Year (40 one hour lessons, 10 per term, one per week)
Crash Course This course can be crashed over a periond of 1-2 weeks full-time

Who will benefit

How to Create Awesome Characters
How to Use GameMakerStudio 2
Video Game Programming
Basic 2D Animation
How to Find and Fix Bugs
How to Storyboard Your Game
Where to Get Game Assets (for free)
How to Add Sound Effects
How to Develop Your Game Ideas
Game Design Mechanics
How to Make Fun Levels
How to Set Game Difficulty
How to Add Visual Effects
How to Use a Game Design Document
How to Create a Points System
How to Stay Focused and Motivated

Course Content

What is a Game Designer?
What is a Game Programmer?
Showcasing GameMaker Studio 2
Easing into Coding
Event Based Programming
Variables
The Manual
Asking for help

Making your First Game
Creating Our Snake
Controlling our Snake
Creating Food
What’s a Function?
Feeding our Snake
Design Talk: Randomness
What makes a Game?
Losing
Adding a Challenge
Design Talk: “Obvious” Game Expectations
Adding a Score
Sharing your Game

Programmers vs Designers
What is a Game Artist?
What is a Level Designer?
What is a Sound Engineer?
What is a Game Manager?

Module Intro
Downloading the Assets
Importing Sprites
Design Talk: 2D Animation
Animate the Thruster
Flying Around
Programming Topic: Logic
Staying in Bounds Part 1
Staying in Bounds Part 2
Lazers!
Programming Talk-The Debugger
Destroying Our Lazers
Programming talk- Audio
Lazer Sounds
Design Topic-Sounds
Rooms
Cameras and Views
Our First Room
Programming talk – Arrays
Changing Ships – Part 1
Changing Ships – Part 2
Restricting Controls
A new room
Changing Rooms
Music
Enemy Ships
Enemy Movement
Enemy Lazers
Design Talk-Fairness
Getting Hit
Health
Dying Correctly
Programming Talk: Loops
Drawing Our Lives
Losing the Game
Design Talk-Generated Content vs Hand Crafted
Dynamically Spawning Enemies
Killing Enemies
Colliding with Enemies
Level Inheritance
The Player Score
Beating Level 1
Design Talk-Cut Scenes
Level Inheritance
Power Ups-Part 1
Power Ups-Part 2
Bug Hunting
Final Bug Fixes
Sharing, Feedback and Criticism
Module Recap

Design Talk: Saving and Loading
Programming Talk: Saving and loading
Saving and Loading Our Snake Game
Saving and Loading Our Space Game
Programming Talk: Data Types

Planning A Big Game
How I Planned This Game
Finding Game Assets
Sprite Sheets
Moving Around
Basic Collisions
Pixel Perfect Collisions
Jumping
Vertical Collisions
Variable Jumping
Running Sprite
Jumping Animation
A Custom Collision Mask
Programming Talk – State Machines
Design Talk – Coding Limitations
Our State Machine
Hero Attack State
Programming Talk -Scripts
Animation End Script
Our Camera and View
Tile Sets
Walking On Tiles
The Skeleton Sprite
Design Talk – Enemy AI
Enemy State Machine
Walking Skeleton
Skeleton Vision
Charging Skeleton
Skeleton Attack
Getting Hit – Part
Getting Hit – Part 2
Getting Hit – Part 3
Player Invincible State
Invincible State Feedback
Player Death State
Drawing and Cameras
Skeleton Taking Damage
Killing the Skeleton
Sound Effects
Adding Music
Design Talk – Level Design
The First Level
Change Room State – Part 1
Change Room State – Part 2
Change Room State – Part 3
The Middle Room
The Last Room
Skeleton and Hero Fixes
The Eye Bat
Programming Talk – Parents
Setting Up Enemy Parent
Eye Bat Idle State
Eye Bat Charge State
Eye Bat Attack State
Eye Bat Death
Eye Bat Finishing Touches
Getting Unstuck
Finishing The Middle Room
Importing The Goblin
The Goblin Data
Goblin Idle, Walk and Charge States
Wrapping Up The Goblin
Jump Buffer And Double Jump
Magic Sword Slash
Importing The Mushroom
Growing The Mushroom
FireBall Attack
The Fireball
Mushroom Death
Player Healthbar
The Last Level

A look back
Dont stop here!
The one trick to succeed

Design Talk: Game Juice
Programming Talk: Game Juice
Design Talk: Refining your Game Ideas
Design Talk; Game Design as a Career

Free

Update:2 March 2025
Skill LevelAll Levels

Target Audience

If you've been dreaming of making your own video games but held back because you didn't know how to start, then this course is for you! Everything you'll need to make awesome video games will be included in this course. GameMaker Studios Software and the asset programs you'll use are free to start. Have hours of fun, over-the-shoulder video tutorials.

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