GameMaker: Studio 100 Programming Challenges

by Ben Tyers

Overview

Push your GameMaker programming skills to the edge with 100 programming challenges using the popular GameMaker: Studio and GML. Each challenge includes an outline of the challenge, a scoring and time guide, useful GML code, and a working example provided in GMZ format. For more advanced programmers, each challenge comes with an additional task to complete.

Think you're a good GameMaker game application developer or programmer? Think again with this awesome book!

What You'll Learn

• Upgrade your skills with each specific game application coding challenge

• Create many different game events, action or scenarios

• Code for many different kinds of game applications or themes from space to adventure to sports to fantasy

Who This Book Is For

GameMaker and GameMaker: Studio users and coders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484226438
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	02/11/2017
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ben Tyers is an expert GameMaker: Studio user, developer, coder, expert and IT trainer. He has authored a number of small books on GameMaker for game application developers and runs a popular GameMaker resources web site.

Table of Contents

1 Maths Bar Graph.- 2 Clickable & Moveable Object.- 3 Room Fade In & Out Transition.- 4 Typewriter Text Effect.- 5 Audio Volume Change Based On Distance.- 6 Move Object To Position Using Path 11.- 7 Make The Screen Shake 13- 8 Create Snow Effect.- 9 Password Easter Egg.- 10 Follow Two Objects In View.- 11 High / Low Number Game.- 12 Calculate Average Position Of Two Clicks.- 13 Retrieve Text File Web From & Save Locally.- 14 Shuffle Pack Of Playing Cards & Deal.- 15 Reverse Sentence Order.- 16 Rotate & Move Object To Mouse Position.- 17 Firework Display Using Effects.- 18 Random Sentence Generator.- 19 Pop Up RPG Style Text Box.- 20 Room Wrapping.- 21 Sprite Shadow.- 22 Make A Jukebox Player For 4 Songs.- 23 Scrolling Credits.- 24 Random Dice Roller.- 25 Substitution Cipher.- 26 Save Highscore To INI.- 27 Spawn Point.- 28Dictionary Check.- 29 Draw Text With Shadow.- 30 Classic Brick & Ball Game Remake.- 31 Fire Projectile.- 32 World Clock.- 33 Text Based Quiz.- 34 On Screen Keyboard.- 35 Create A Driveable Tank That Leaves Tyre Tracks.- 36 Parallax Background.- 37 Click The Ghost.- 38 Particle Fire Effect.- 39 Bubble Sort.- 40 Unlockable Levels Select Screen.- 41 Moon Lander AI.- 42 Dodge The Barrels.- 43 Convert Celsius To Fahrenheit.- 44 Find Path To Position Avoiding Objects.- 45 Calculate BMI.- 46 Shuffle Pack Of Playing Cards & Save To Text.- 47 10 Green Bottles.- 48 English To Morse Code.- 49 Blitz Game Remake.- 50 Mini Golf Game Remake.- 51 Rock, Paper, Scissors Game Remake.- 52 Health Based On Distance.- 53 Tank Trax Game Remake.- 54 Two Separate Views.- 55 Word Typing Game.- 56 Destructible Terrain.- 57 Duck Hunt Game Remake.- 58 Keep Player In View.- 59 Fizz Buzz.- 60 Calculate Numbers.- 61 Particle Trail Effect.- 62 Draw Rectangle and Calculate Area & Perimeter.- 63 Random Terrain Generation.- 64 Drop The Coin (arcade style).- 65 Calculate the Nth Result Of Fibonacci Sequence.- 66 Distance From Object To Mouse.- 67 Convert Decimal To Binary, Oct, Hex & Roman.- 68 Text In X Box.- 69 Frogger Game Remake.- 70 Take a Screen Shot.- 71 Slowly Move Direction.- 72 Pong Style Game Remake.- 73 Shooting Gallery.- 74 How Many Of Each Letter.- 75 Torpedo Game Remake.- 76 One Hundred Random Numbers.- 77 Coin Flip.- 78 Predict Path Of An Object.- 79 Dynamic Button.- 80 Sokoban Game Remake.- 81 Top Down Football.- 82 Top Down Racing.- 83 Convert Numbers (in digits) To Words.- 84 Zelda Style Views.- 85 Convert Text File To eBook.- 86 Planets Database (INI).- 87 How Much Flour.- 88 Rotating Mini Map.- 89 Selectable Troops.- 90 Pipes.- 91 Arcade Style Horse Race Game.- 92 Road Builder.- 93 Chess Board Representation.- 94 1942 Game Remake.- 95 Create A Virtual ATM (bank teller).- 96 Moon Lander Game Remake.- 97 Pixelate An Image.- 98 Miner.- 99 Follow Player (Ghost).- 100 Multiplication Table.- Appendix A: Points Chart.