Welcome to Easy GML, your source for GML learning! Game Maker Language is a fun and easy language to learn if your serious about game making. There is a large amount of coding involved and can be extremely fun to get into. Here at Easy GML, we teach you tricks early and stop the mistakes a normal beginner would get into.
Wondering what you will learn? We are gonna start off with the beginner steps and eventually get into advanced features such as full systems and codes for a war game or maybe even a little 3d!
What you need: Game Maker 8 (There is pro and Lite. Eventually you will need pro to use this tutorial.) Patience, game design takes time and learning the skills takes even more.
What is Game Maker?
Game Maker is an easy to use game programming software developed by Yoyogames and Mark Overmars. It uses a language with an easy to learn syntax. This language is known as GML or Game Maker Language. Game Maker makes it easy to use resources to program free 2d and even 3d games with no limitations. You can do single-player, two-player, and multi-player games with the correct tools and knowledge.
Game Maker is a great program, but it doesn't make the game for you. With the proper knowledge, you will be able to code any game you can thinks of.
You are almost there! We will start out with lessons on the very basics of game maker. In the Basics, we will learn a bit on formatting and variables along with new codes to improve your knowledge of GML. We will be jumping right into GML and it is suggested you take some notes along the way!
Beginner Lessons *Using Game Maker *Formatting Code *Using events *Variables *Using Code *And More