GameMaker Tutorial

Tutorial Game   F14

Complete a first tutorial game and submit the finished game as a Blackboard Assessment. See a working example on my website.

A.    Windows users. Complete the “My first game” tutorial, located under the Help menu. Submit two files, the source file and *executable file: game_name.gm81 and game_name.exe.

B.     Mac users. Complete a similar game. Click on help .  See the general steps under “A Simple Example”, titled Let us look at an example. Details are in the sections that follow, for example, “Defining Sprites”.  Download the “Examples and Assets” at this URL for some resources to create the game: http://store.yoyogames.com/downloads/gm4mac/tutorials/Assets.zip . Use the steps in the Windows tutorial to create your game.   The sprites will be different but you should have similar functionality. Submit the source file: game_name.gmk

Grading: 60 points

  1. 20 points for a running game
  2. 12 points for four different moving objects (not the same as multiple copies of the same object)
  3. 4 points for objects with visible sprites(images)
  4. 4 points for object actions that increase (and display) the score when the mouse is pressed
  5. 4 points for sound when each object is clicked
  6. 4 points for a background
  7. 4 points for background sound
  8. 3 points for increasing numbers of bombs
  9. 3 points for correctly functioning bombs (reset score and restart game when mouse pressed)
  10. 2 points for submitting the correct file(s) through Blackboard (.gm81 and .exe)

Submission

1.      Click the Blackboard Assessment; scroll to Assignment Submission, attach the correct file(s) using Browse My Computer.

2.      Click Type Submission and indicate if your tutorial used the Mac or Windows version of GM (-1 pt)

 

Software Download

  1. Download GameMaker Lite at http://www.yoyogames.com/legacy or use the link of the class website.


  2. Click on Download installer  for Windows or Mac as appropriate. Install on your machine.
  3. You will also have to download and install the Windows installer for use in the campus labs.

 

Saving Your Game

1. Select a location on your Z drive (or computer) to save your game. Click File, Save as & give it a name

2. * Windows: To create the executable in Game Maker, click File then Create Executable. Save the file, the file extension will be .exe. Make a note of where you save the file. Try running the file by double clicking the name. Upload this file and the .gm81 file to the Blackboard Assignment.

 

Other: If the tutorial is not displayed on the right side of the GameMaker window, go to Help and select Turorials 1-Your First Game. (Windows users)

Background music for Mac: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/garrisonc/CSCI101/GameMaker/GM_music.mid

Use the resources link on my website to download more music and sprite files.