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How to make a fighting game! Part 1

How to make a simple fighting game.


How to make a fighting game! Part 2

This is the second part of the above tutorial on how to make a simple fighting game.


Introduction to the Game Maker interface

Explains how to do basic stuff like adding sprites, backgrounds, and all the other stuff that you have to know!


Introduction to the game maker interface 2

Explains how to do basic stuff like adding sprites, backgrounds, and all the other stuff that you have to know!


Introduction to the Game Maker interface 3

Explains how to do basic stuff like adding sprites, backgrounds, and all the other stuff that you have to know!


Introduction to the Game Maker interface 3 Part 2

This is the second part of the above tutorial.


How to create a shooter! Good!

A very good tutorial on how to create a scrolling shooter that will encounter enemies and such.


How to make your person shoot

How to shoot with your person. Basically, how to react on a user prompt, create a bullet object and make that object go in a specific direction!


Another one on shooting

And this one explains about the same as the one above.


How to add background music

This is a very basic tutorial that deals with music.


How to remove the YoYoGames logo

How to remove the YoYoGames logo that is located at the left-bottom corner by default (in the Game Maker interface).


How to make an RPG

All the basics one needs to know about RPG-making. Movements and such.


Another how to make an RPG example!

And this one is on the same theme as the one above. Check them both out!


How to work with health

How health works in Game Maker and how to use it in games, and for health bars and such.


Runescape movement!

Move just like in Runescape with this blending GM-tutorial...


2d Racing tutorial

2D racing is a top-down racing game that you can learn to create using this tutorial.


Introduction to the Game Maker interface 4

Yet another tutorial that explains the very basics like where the different options are positioned in the interface.


Tutorial on gravity and jumping

How to make basic platform stuff like gravity, and jumping with your character when you have gravity set.


How to make a text menu

How to make an nifty text menu for your game!


How to make drag and drop objects

Like the title says, how to make drag and drop objects...


How to make sidescrolling games

How to make a side-scrolling game (a game in which you focus on one object and the world scrolls past it in either left or right direction).


How to make the view follow the character

How to make the view follow the character as he walks around in the room.


Sprite changing depending on mouse position

Making the sprite of an object change depending on where in the room the mouse is (which x/y-position it has).


Changing background in-game

How to change background in-game, during gameplay...


Swimming in a platform game

How to swim in a platform game where there is gravity acting on your character, pulling it downwards by default.


Highlighting menu buttons

Useful tutorial for menus. Highlighted buttons have become somewhat of a standard and this is a simple example.


Shoot towards pointer

How to make an object shoot towards a pointer, such as your cursor, which involves creating a bullet instance and more!


How to make a 3D game

The basics of the not so basic task of creating a 3D-game. Good for those who want to learn.


Simple top-down shooter

Simple top-down shooter that involves all the different things usually involved in top-down shooting...


Line of sight utilized for AI using d&d

Simple AI using line of sight methods to sense presence and more. Using only drag and drops.


How to make slopes

How to make easy slopes for your games.


Introduction to the interface 5

Another interface-explaining tutorial.


3D lighting

Lighting in 3D games is explained in this tutorial!


About animated sprites

A basic tutorial about how to deal with animated sprites in Game Maker.


Basic GML coding

A starting point for GML programming, this tutorial might or might not be. At least it tries to explain GML.


Basic coding part 2

Part two of the GML-tutorial above.


Custom cursor without pro version

How to replace the default cursor with a customized looked without having to pay for the pro version!


Basic GML programming part 3

This tutorial belongs to some previous ones here above. It teaches basic GML.


How to shoot and having simple AI shoot at you

This is a tutorial of how you can make bad AI guys that will shoot at you, and you can shoot back.


Rotating sprites using the mosue in-game

How to rotate a sprite using the mouse in-game. For example point your character towards the mouse at all times.


How to make water in platform games

How to make water that reacts with you character and counteracts gravity, to make it seem like real water! For platform games.


How to make fade effects

How to fade sprites in-game!


Your first maze game

Everything about how to create your first maze game.


How to make a breakout game

Everything you need to know about how to create your first breakout game.


How to create 8-way movement

How to create 8-way movement. Useful in top-down and isometric games.


How to make a very basic script

How to make a very basic GML-script, good for beginners.


Guns, bullets and other projectiles

Everything about guns, bullets and projectiles!


Texturing models explained

How texturing models work in 3D-games.


2/4-way shooting

2/4-way shooting. How to shoot with for example a top-down character but limit him to two directions.


How to make a Character select screen!

Good tutorial on how to make a selection screen, on which the player can choose which character he wants to play with.


Making a title screen

The making of a cool-looking title-screen.


Experience points and level ups!

How to use experience points and level ups.


Random GML code at display

Explanation of a GML-code.


Cool title screen made 100% in GM

Another cool title screen. This one is made to a hundred percent using only Game Maker, including only using its image editor.


How to make a 2-player game!

How to make a two player game where both players can steer at the same time.


Quick menu

A tutorial on how to make a nifty menu.


How to make a simple pong game

How to make your first pong game.


How to make a ping pon game

Explanation on how to make a good, fun, ping-pong game.


How to make paths

How to use paths! A useful element in Game Maker which has to be mastered.


Player movement

How to create basic player movement.


How to make power-ups

How to make power-ups which gives the player advantages in the game.


How to pause in-game

How to pause the game and stop all activity.


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