beginner question

I'd like to start off by saying that I am very very new to coding and making games, and I'm trying very hard to learn the basics of making an RPG (heavily inspired by the Mother 3 mechanics). At the moment I'm trying to create a sprinting mechanic, just a simple "if you hold down shift you will...

As above, I would like two different animations to take place within my Player object (obj_player) contingent on the collision status of two other objects. First animation is a sprite indicating success Second animation is a sprite indicating failure When the player presses ENTER The second...

I am new to this community and these forums, so please redirect me if I am going about posting incorrectly! I recently began developing my game (wrote the plot a while back), and just wanted to see if anybody has experience using vector artwork for most of their game. I have gone about hand...

Hi! yesterday I bought GameMaker Studio 2 via Steam (I already linked the account with YoYo Games) and started doing the Space Rocks DnD tutorials (I'm in the second video now). When I get to the part about using the RUN command for the first time, I get a black screen and can't see the ship...

(Keep in mind i am very very new to gml and coding) So im trying to make a bullet hell but dulled down, very simple few bullets on screen. But im having alot of trouble using the create_instance_layer, it doesnt show up for me I even tried adding a draw event to draw self incase that messed up...

I have now been using Game Maker and learning to code in GML for 3 days. Someone else on here helped me with something before so I am hoping someone can help with this. I have tried to code a laser bullet to shoot from my ship, but when I press the space bar that I have assigned to shoot the...

Hello everybody. I'm a beginner to GameMaker 2 and GML. I've been using the engine for only 2 days so far. I've encountered a problem with my code. My project is a 2D top-down space shooter. I've been following 3 different YouTube tutorials on making a movable spaceship. One tutorial I watched...

I'm trying to set up a system where once a teleporter object (obj_teleporter) collides with the player, it looks through a DS list "global.tele_list" which stores the ids of any teleport stops (obj_teleportstop) in the current room, then when it finds one with a matching tele_id value (ex: both...

Hello!! I'm a fresh, brand new egg to the GameMaker community and the software itself. This may be a long-winded introduction but I hope you'll bear with me haha. I've had a game idea in my head for a good few years now that I've been putting off because I have zero experience in coding (though...

Hi guys, Very new user to any sort of coding here (10days old o_O), I am having trouble using the debugging mode in the sense that graphs are showing zero output at all times when I have games running. Is that possible even possible for the most basic of games? My laptop certainly gets hot, so...

Hello, I want to learn GameMaker properly. I know all the basics (how to make sprites, objects, rooms, the meaning of every option...), but I don't know which things I should focus on. I have two main questions: -Which events, actions and options are actually helpful? Which things should I...

I essentially have my character's movement down, but I am having trouble figuring out how to make it so that when the player holds down and crouches the bullet lowers accordingly to the player's shorter height. I am also confused as to make it so that the bullet comes from the tip of the...

Im as beginner in coding, well at least in game maker 2. I need some help with coding for a remake of a game, that game is fire boy and water girl, i need the code for pushable blocks. Like a block the player runs into and can move to where they need it

In my player object I have a camera example I followed in this tutorial, but it arch's just right for the camera to be more "first person" like. While this is fine in most cases, I really want to get my Camera to remain inside a fixed set of boundaries (like stopping on walls and such so there's...

I downloaded GameMaker Studio 2 and tried to run some demo. But there is a compiling error says, "Error : Missing or corrupt GameMaker build tools - 0x4F030002" I have done my best to gather all the information to solve the problem but failed. I saw many people post this problem and they...

Howdy! I'm currently working on some RPG elements and I'm struggling to figure out a solution for smooth damage progression. One of these hitches is that I currently do not have a visual representation of the damage the player character is dealing, outside of the enemy HP bar. So the question I...

Hey everyone! I've been following the marvelous tutorials of "Friendly Cosmonaut" and am now working on a menu system. My problem now is that, after comparing the code over and over again, changing variables, I don't know anymore. The controls work perfectly in the main menu, I can go up...

I might sound pretty stupid asking this so sorry about that. But I'm trying to do this: Player obj walks to vault obj and presses z and it changes (escapedoorlocked = true) - (escapedoorlocked = false) But it doesn't work for me. So can someone help me? I'll post code if needed.

Hi! So I'm not sure where this is supposed to go, but this feels right I'm switching from rpg maker to game maker and have a few questions. In rpg maker there's a method of mapping where you basically make the map in Photoshop, import the image into the editor and make a clear/transparent tile...

I'm just getting started with Gamemaker 2, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'm stuck at the end of Part 3 of the tutorial ( ) I'm not getting the correct asteroids to create when a bullet hits them. When a bullet hits a large asteroid I get a 2 new ones, but of any size: large...