Learn to Code in Game Maker Language

As someone who understands how to code a data structure from scratch, I find this course generally digestible & informative, but at the same time, it has some odd stop gaps in explanation of what gamemaker is actually generating under the hood as the course progresses, leaving my understanding of what I’m working with more abstract than preferable with that knowledge, and without that knowledge to guide my thoughts, I can’t help but feel I’d be more lost. Most notably, I’ve felt the descriptions vague in the lectures on alarms and passing arrays by reference/value describing what array accessors are. calling ‘@’ a sort of dereferencing operator would probably have been confusing to many, but it would have clarified the whole purpose of the lesson much sooner, and after all, if you’re here looking to take this course, you are one of the few not looking to make a game without coding like gamemaker can afford. I still don’t feel like the given description of alarms gave me a good idea of what to expect the output to be from that video alone: whether I’m dealing with a listener for something? a timer? a variable that increments per step/frame & waits for a sentinel value to execute a script? I’d still have to look elsewhere to get that sort of answer, but that kind of discussion would help guide those with fair knowledge of coding who are just looking for a tool to expedite their throughput with gamemaker. I’d have liked to know about parent objects a lot sooner since that’s the closest I’ve seen gamemaker get to giving users polymorphism, which is the sort of thing you’ll save a lot of time, effort & management issues with as you’re refining your data model. The first project is a good place to start, certainly, & I hope subsequent courses give details for executing more nuanced games with fairly universal details like fine tuning hit boxes & varying them per frame, managing in game data models such as an inventory of collectibles, or changing the environment (assuming gamemaker has a way of referring to backgrounds, whole or tiled, & some way of changing those choices in gml, & not just changing object instances), as these are the sorts of features people who want to learn how to code in gml can’t implement without learning to code.

Even if you aren’t using Game maker 1.4 this is still a pretty good tutorial. The beginning parts about adding sprites is a bit hard if you’ve never touched game maker before. However, if you can get into section two, the real fun starts and you learn a LOT very fast. Be ready!

Very informative and excelent tutor, teaching that important stuff what we need.. hope to see another tutorials from you

Very basic to be avoided if you have been using gamemaker for while. But for beginners who have never used gamemaker this is one course I recommend. Wish for each and every items explained there was mention of examples where they could be used for, which is done very less. Some code could have been simpler, nonetheless the tutorial is packed without any nonsense and the author has taken time to rehearse the code rather than recording on the go. Good job.

Could go a little more into detail.

Video quality a little bad for 720p in my personal opinion. And a little difficult to understand some words teacher said in English language, because i’m Russian. But it’s my personal problems 🙂

Je clearly put time into making the course, it just doesn’t flow and even some of the lectures cut out early or part of the screen that we need to see doesn’t show.

Very easy to understand and very quick instructions.