Game Maker Studio GML Programming Practical Tips & Techniques 2013 Edition Vol. 2

Professor Overmars’s Game Maker had revolutionized the world of Windows game creation, by providing easy drag-and-drop kind of interface for producing complex game logic, all without the need to write difficult C codes. Game Maker Studio (GM Studio) is the latest generation of this game creation platform. The goal of this book is to provide starters with rich technical information so the best decision and judgment can be exercised when creating games through GM Studio’ scripting language. This is not a step-by-step tutorial. This is also not a guide book kind of overview material. We place our focus on the practical side of game creation – practical tips and techniques one will definitely need when starting out a game project. This book is an attempt to make learning GML as painless as possible. No attempt is made to cover every language feature. Those who like to go through the full language specifications should refer to the official GML language reference instead. So, are you ready for the challenge?