Questions tagged [game-maker]
Game Maker is a cross-platform game creation tool made by YoYo Games mostly used to develop 2D video games.
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How can determine the number of instances of an object in Game Maker?
I am making a small puzzle based game. I want the number of instances of an object to be equal to the ammo count plus 2.
Each time a new room is loaded, the main object's creation method with run ...
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Does the license of games made with Game Maker need to include the Game Maker part?
In the default license generated by Game Maker for your games, some of YoYo Games stuff is mentioned. Are those necessary to be shipped with an application made with GM? Is it legally ok if I remove ...
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Is it possible to load local html pages into Gamemaker games?
I was just wondering if it would be possible somehow to load locally saved web pages into a game. My primary use for them would be as menus, helping to navigate between rooms.
I know about the built ...
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How to give parallax backgrounds more depth
I have 3 tiled images of some sort of galaxy/space in the background of a 2D Game:
The first one has an alpha of 100%, the second an alpha of 80% and the last one has an alpha of 60%.
I scroll the ...
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Collision detection, stop gravity
I just started using Gamemaker Studio and so far it seems fairly intuitive. However, I set a room to "Room is Physics World" and set gravity to 10. I then enabled physics on my player object and ...
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Game Maker Studio Gravity Problems
I've started messing around with Game Maker Studio. The problem I'm having is trying to get a gravity code for orbiting.
Here's how i did it in XNA
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What are Game Maker drawbacks? [closed]
I actually make games only programming (SFML atm), but I was taking a look at game maker features and it looks very powerful.
What are Game Maker drawbacks? any reason why I shouldn't move into it?
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Are there any good books for GameMaker:Studio?
I'm just wondering if there are any good books for the GameMaker:Studio software?
I want to using it to prototype my projects and will be travelling for the next few days so I thought it might be a ...
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Events and objects being skipped in GameMaker [closed]
Update: Turns out it's not an issue with this code (or at least not entirely). Somehow the objects I use for keylogging and player automation (basic ai that plays the game) are being 'skipped' or not ...
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How should I structure my turn based engine to allow flexibility for players/AI and observation?
I've just started making a Turn Based Strategy engine in GameMaker's GML language... And I was cruising along nicely until it came time to handle the turn cycle, and determining who is controlling ...
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How can a NodeJS server be used from Game Maker HTML5?
I want to create a client-server game that runs on Game Maker HTML5-NodeJS. The NodeJS server will be an AI server - a bot that acts like a human opponent and plays against the human player at a front-...
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How can I log key presses in Game Maker?
I'm trying to create a log of a players actions as they play a game of Spelunky. The easiest I've found to do this is to log what keys are pressed at each frame. What I don't know how to do is how to ...
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Can you recommend a good beginners book or project for a young person? [closed]
I'm sorry if this question is a bit subjective but I'm sure you'll understand why.
I participate in a volunteer program, Big Brother Big Sister, and my match loves computer games and he'd love to ...
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Where can I find a good tutorial to replicate Game Maker's surfaces and blend modes in XNA?
I know Game Maker's surfaces exist in XNA (It's more the othe way around, XNA's surfaces exist in Game Maker), same thing for blend modes, since (I think) they both use DirectX.
This is the question: ...
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Very easy game builders? [duplicate]
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What are some good game development programs for kids?
I want very easy game builder for a kid - somebody who knows nothing about programming games (how they work inside) and ...
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GML and C/C++ language question
Is GML (Game Maker Language) script is clipped in C/C++ language, and GML wrote the code to Visual Studio C++, it will always be correct, because it is just under C++ language features?
I think that ...
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game maker book for beginner [closed]
Which book is more a beginner to learn to program in c++ (or GML) and more fun: "Game Maker 8 Cookbook" (available for pre-order), or "The Game Maker's Companion" ?
