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GM Version: 2 Target Platform: Windows/Mac Download: N/A Links: https://spaceslingers.wordpress.com/2020/08/04/tutorial-particle-effects-in-gml/ Summary: Learn how to create your own unique and interesting particle effects like this: Tutorial: Tutorial can be found here...

Hello everyone - new forum member here, I hope we're all doing okay! I bought GM2 a few months back and have finally gotten around to trying it out. I'm doing the DnD Space Rocks tutorial and I'm stuck on the third video "My First Game - DnD - Attacking & Collisions - Space Rocks (Part 3)"...

Hey all, I'm a decent programmer but new to game dev, so I was following the GM2 tutorial "My First Game - GML". I followed the instructions and when I went to test rotating my ship, instead of just rotating like the original asteroids or like the example I was following, it'd rotate, but fill...

Hello 🙋‍♂️ I'm Benjamin, normally board-game designer, with an online game idea that's been obsessing me since my teenage years and which I decided to work on. I've heard GM has a strong community and hope to find support here. I'm working as a Chief Data Officer, and so I'm familiar with data...

I've been away from the forum for quite some time, but have been using GMS2 since it debuted. Back then there was only 1 bare bones tutorial available on how to use the Room Editor to build stages. I've built some test rooms but am ready to start making proper well organized Rooms/Levels for my...

GM Version: 2.X Target Platform: ALL Download: N/A Links: N/A Summary: This tutorial will get you perfect, snappy style, tween-ish with rebound object rotation. This is really useful and fun for Tetris-type games and would look great in 2d platformer games on platforms that rotate too. UPDATE...

GM Version: 2 Target Platform: Windows/Mac OSX/HTML 5 Download: Project/Assets Link: Lets Clone Summary: Welcome to Lets Cone! In this tutorial we tackle a clone of the classic title ' Balloon Fight', with a subtle twist. Instead of implementing a single or cooperative version of the game, I...

REALISTIC THROTTLE RESPONSE (AIRPLANE) GM Version: 2.2.5 Target Platform: ALL Download: N/A Links: https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/forces.html Summary: This will be part of a series on creating basic flight physics models (if you can call anything involving flight physics "basic")...

I'm currently going through the space rocks tutorial and am creating the asteroid's behaviour. The tutorial tells you to change the object's image_angle each step to create a rotating effect, so that it doesn't affect the asteroid's actual direction value. When testing this behaviour, the...

GM Version: GMS 2 Target Platform: ALL Download: N/A Links: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamemaker/comments/eyg2kf/useful_math_for_game_development/ Summary: I was recently asked about what math/logic knowledge is needed for game development, so I've decided to outline it here and maybe you can use...

Hi, I've been using GMS for about a year now having Zero previous coding knowledge. I got my start following along the simple 2d arcade style game tutorials and went from there. I really want to make a 4 player FPS deathmatch game. Very simple 1 weapon, 1 map and go from there, but I can't find...

PICROSS (NONOGRAM) PUZZLE GAME ON GMS2 Marketplace link: https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/assets/8893/picross-on-gms2 Hi there! I've just uploaded a GMS2 project that shows you how to make a Picross puzzle-game on GMS2. The code is fully commented so it is easy to follow along. I've also made...

My pc is not that great,so, the smoothest GM is the 8th for me. Well, i wanted to know, where could i find some good content of GML for GM 8.1 if its possible obviously. Someone said to me that, learning from tutorials of gms 1, would help because they are almost the same, but, i didnt trust...

GM Version: 2.2.5.378 Target Platform: Windows Download: N/A Links: Summary: First of all, happy new year to everybody! Hope you're having a great one. Just as the title mentions, this is an all in one tutorial video showing people how to handle jump through based static and moving...

GM Version: GMS 2.2.5 and Prior Target Platform: All Download: Github Repository Links: YouTube Playlist Summary: A GML tutorial series focused on the basics of coding. A link to the playlist is above and the introduction and first video are below. Introduction: Tutorial:

Simple Background Gradient Render (No graphics required!) GM Version: 2.X Target Platform: ALL Summary: Immediately and with minimal effort make your games and prototypes looks better and more polished. I've seen so many GMS games that are using gray or flat black backgrounds. This is an...

The idea of a GML tutorial series focused on the basics of coding, instead of a how to make 'x' game, has been brought up a couple times recently, and if no one else wants to do it, I think I might try. I've only got three years (slightly less) of hobbiest coding experience but I've taken the...

Hello! I'm going through the "Breakthrough" tutorial and was just wondering why one code worked and one doesn't . . . This is concerning the part where the bat must be coded to stay within the boundaries of the game. This is the correct code in a Step event: if keyboard_check(vk_right) // Check...

Hi there, just tried out GameMaker today for the first time. I have been following the tutorial for space rocks. I have been getting this error: ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in...

I am pretty new to GML and Game Maker in general, and have been following the tutorials to learn up on it, however I am having issues with the collision of the ball and the brick. The ball will only go in the opposite direction of the original bounce (like 95% of the time) even though I changed...