Build a Polished Space Shooter Game in GameMaker Studio 2

Learn 2D Game Development in GameMaker. We focus on juice and smooth game mechanics while developing this shoot-em-up

4.20 (15 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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Game Design

What you will learn

Learn basic programming skills applicable to all programming languages

Learn how to develop a game from start to finish in Gamemaker Studio 2

Learn how to insert juice into your game with visual effects, explosions, screenshake, slow motion, and more

Tackle advanced topics like inheritance, boids, and scaling to any resolution

Learn smooth physics based movement

Create dazzling effects using particles

Create scripts that can be saved for other projects

Build a scalable code base to make future development easier

Why take this course?

This course takes you through a whirlwind of code and concepts while creating a bullet hell game. If you are a beginner, we start at zero, explaining every idea in detail. As the course progresses we quickly build up speed, covering advanced topics seldom touched upon in other tutorials. But don't let that stop you, each section has the source code uploaded at the end if you get stuck.

So join this course, learn to create beautiful visual effects, multiple enemy types, scalable design, and more. At the end of this series, you will have a complete game you can be proud of, and show off to your friends.

Finishing a game is a huge achievement, and few make it that far. This course can help you pass that milestone if its your first time, or teach you new tricks if you're a veteran.

While making this game you will learn many programming concepts ranging from beginner to advanced.

Beginner Concepts Covered:

GameMaker's layout
The step, create, and draw events
How to import resources
Variables and commenting
Getting player input
Basic Movement
Restricting objects to a certain area
Cameras
Dynamic Backgrounds
Particles
Arrays and loops
Knockback
Sinusoidal movement
Screen shake
Slow motion
Loading data from a file
Playing Music and sound effects

Advanced Concepts Covered:

Physics based movement
How to scale your game to any aspect ratio
Raycasting for bullets
Inheritance
Boids
Performance Optimization

Prerequisites:

A computer

Who Should Take the Course:

Beginner and intermediate game developers

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Reviews

Tim

December 1, 2022

I have virtually no coding experience - I've spent maybe 1-2 hours playing around with Perl/Bash a few years ago and that's it. This course has worked extremely well for someone of my beginner-level status. Most lectures are paced perfectly, though very rarely there is a lecture or two that moved fast enough that I had to pause and try to figure out what just happened. This is a very mild issue though and overall the course is wonderful.

Amadev

May 7, 2022

Great. There's what you need to become a 2d game developer, if you don't want to use unity or unreal engine

Tildes

February 20, 2022

I think he's doing a really great job so far. I just hope he buys a new mic eventually! section 6: his mic is much better. moved through pretty quick so it was hard to write code as he was inserting it (albeit not the best way to learn). I think this this course turned out to be my exact skill level so my skills have improved quite a lot. I wish I understood more about the introduced camera system

October 20, 2021

What I liked about this class was the logical way it was laid out. Each short video started with a goal laid out, and often there were sidebar moments when he would explain possible mistakes. The game effects were pretty cool, and I think I could use Game Maker now to explore some of my own game concepts.

Martin