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GameMaker: Studio 100 Programming Challenges

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Ben Tyers

    1. Worthing, United Kingdom

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  • Tests your GameMaker skills with a series of graded challenges

  • A one of a kind GameMaker book that raises the bar on your coding ability

  • Helps make you a complete game developer using GameMaker: Studio, language and other tools

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Table of contents (100 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Maths Bar Graph

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    Pages 1-2

  3. Draggable and Movable Object

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    Pages 3-4

  4. Room Fade In and Out Transition

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    Pages 5-6

  5. Typewriter Text Effect

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    Pages 7-8

  6. Audio Volume Change Based on Distance

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    Pages 9-10

  7. Move Object to Position Using Path

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    Pages 11-12

  8. Make the Screen Shake

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    Pages 13-14

  9. Create Snow Effect

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    Pages 15-16

  10. Password Easter Egg

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    Pages 17-18

  11. Follow Two Objects in View

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    Pages 19-20

  12. High / Low Number Game

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    Pages 21-22

  13. Calculate the Average Position of Two Clicks

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    Pages 23-24

  14. Retrieve Text File from Web and Save Locally

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    Pages 25-26

  15. Shuffle Pack of Playing Cards and Deal 5

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    Pages 27-28

  16. Reverse Sentence Order

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    Pages 29-30

  17. Rotate and Move Object to Mouse Position

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    Pages 31-32

  18. Firework Display Using Effects

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    Pages 33-34

  19. Random Sentence Generator

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    Pages 35-36

  20. Pop-Up RPG Style Text Box

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    Pages 37-38
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About this book

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.  


Authors and Affiliations

  • Worthing, United Kingdom

    Ben Tyers

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.

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