GameMaker Programming By Example电子书

GameMaker Programming By Example

Table of Contents

GameMaker Programming By Example

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introduction to GameMaker: Studio

Choosing your version

The GameMaker: Studio interface

GameMaker: Studio documentation

An example project

Naming convention – resource prefixes

Drawing the sprite

Creating an object

Coordinate planes in GameMaker

Creating a room

Testing your game

Summary

Review questions

Quick drills

2. Your First Game – Escape the Dungeon

Creating your Escape the Dungeon game

The playable character

The sprite

The object

Walls

Enemies

Making your enemies move

Damaging the player

Making the player and enemies shoot

Making the player shoot

Making the enemies shoot

More resources

Backgrounds

Sounds

Keys and locks and advancing to the next room

Summary

Review questions

Quick drills

3. Introducing the GameMaker Language

Remaking Escape the Dungeon in the GML

Remaking the sprites

Remaking the player object

Understanding the four events

Starting to code your player object

Making the player move

Changing the subimage

Collisions

Coding the enemies

Random seeds

Health and lives system

Displaying health and lives

Invincibility

Shooting

Sounds

Keys and locks

Scripts

Summary

Review questions

Quick drills

4. Fun with Infinity and Gravity – An Endless Platformer

Creating an endless platformer

Bouncing and movement

Death and enemies

Random spawning

2D arrays

Menus and textboxes

Menus

Textboxes

Summary

Review questions

Quick drills

5. Saving and Loading Data

Putting in a scoring system

Saving and loading a highscore

INI file encryption

Customizable controls

Saving control configurations

Summary

Review questions

Quick drills

6. A Multiplayer Sidescrolling Platformer

Sprite animation

Spritesheet importing

Programming the movement

Making your scrolling platformer scroll

Client/server multiplayer networking

Networking terminology

Printing the server's IP address and port on a screen

Creating the actual server

Our Asynchronous Networking event

Connection

Disconnection

Handling data

Our data handling script

The client in your client/server system

Integrating Xbox gamepad support

Legacy gamepad support

Modern gamepad support

Summary

Review questions

Quick drills

7. Programming a Scrolling Shooter

Creating the main ship

Creating the enemies

Parenting in objects

Random enemy spawning

Programming a Boss AI

Particles

Summary

Review questions

Quick drills

8. Introducing the GameMaker: Studio Physics Engine

A physics game

The physics engine in a regular game

Summary

Review questions

Quick drills

9. Wrapping Up

Debugging

Compile-time errors

Runtime errors

The GameMaker: Studio debugger

Debugging functions

Helpful information on GameMaker

Quirks of the GameMaker Language

Unexplained resources

Export modules

Summary

Review questions

Quick drills

Index