How to Create a Platformer with a Story - GameMaker Studio 2

Learn to build a platformer using GameMaker Language, while growing as a programmer!

4.85 (96 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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Game Development

What you will learn

Build a platformer with tile collisions

Use finite state machines for input & AI

Use surfaces & data structures

Use marketplace assets to speed up development

Why take this course?

The Course

Welcome! This course is about creating a platformer in GameMaker Studio 2, using GameMaker Language (GML) coding.

It covers many topics, from platforming with tile collisions and finite state machines to data structures and surfaces. Using the skills learned in this course, you can build a complete platformer with your own story!

Not only that, but the knowledge you gain through my lectures will benefit you in making any kind of game, no matter the genre!

GameMaker Studio 2

GameMaker Studio 2 is an amazing 2D game engine, made by YoYo Games. It is easy and effective to start with, and great to work with bigger & advanced projects.

About Me

I have been with GameMaker for a long time, and I love making games. But more than that, I love teaching others how to do so. I have been an instructor on Udemy for 2 years. I also have a website (GameDev Palace) and a YouTube channel (GameMakerStation). My courses have a 4.5+ star rating.

Bonus

With this course, you also get a free link to my pop-up textbox asset, which is a paid asset on the GameMaker Marketplace. In the course, I also show you how to use it. It can prove very useful while making games!

So, check out the trailer and the preview lectures to see if this course is for you.

See you in the course!

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Reviews

Tony

November 23, 2021

So far this is a very good course for the beginner, although the coding is a little fast, but still good.

Joseluis

September 22, 2021

Great course! you can learn a lot in very little time, this guy is probably the best game maker studio teacher! Hope you make an action platformer course next.

Anil

March 20, 2021

This was another amazing course by Matharoo! I've learned skills and techniques that I know I can implement in my games! Thanks Matharoo!

Anthony

August 23, 2020

I wouldn't say that this tutorial is the best for complete gms2 beginners, but if you have some background knowledge in gms2 then... this is a good refresher on certain aspects of coding. Thank you for your tutorial series!

Josh

May 29, 2020

This probably isn't my favorite course of his as it moves VERY fast, especially if you're a beginner. On the other hand, there's a lot of good information here. Check out his Crafting Game tutorial first as I think it gives some better beginner information that is kind of assumed you know in this tutorial.

Justin

May 28, 2020

I've been learning game development for a few months now. This course has a lot of good information in it but it goes lightning quick through it. Gurpreet knows what he's doing but he doesn't explain enough. He mostly gives a quick single sentence explanation of a line of code or a set of lines, but he doesn't elaborate, or go into depth about why or give enough context and reasoning so it makes it difficult to understand. Without fulling comprehending what I'm typing out I didn't feel like I was truly grasping the code. Much of the code is easy to understand though, and I do feel like I got a good basic feel for all the rudimentary aspects of a platformer. I respect this style of learning, though it wasn't completely for me.

Jaime

June 19, 2018

Great course for anyone that has dipped their toes in GameMaker Studio and wants to continue to learn more!

Carsten

June 18, 2018

This course is very informative but the tutor rushes throught some topics a bit to fast (autotilecreation, step-event of the player with an typo) which makes it sometimes hard to follow. Except for this it is really great! :)

Raymond

June 8, 2018

This course is amazing! I highly recommend it if you are passionate about building your own platformer game!

Gwendoline

May 15, 2018

I was still novice with Game Maker, and the proposed explanations were very clear and the comprehension was very fast. A course that I recommend !

Alif

March 23, 2018

so much you can learn on this 1 hour video, plus you get free paid assets, dont hesistate to enroll this course guys,

Clayton

March 18, 2018

This course covers all the basics needed to make a complete platformer game. Easy to follow and to the point. Would love a section on Jumping on enemy head attacks.

Frank

February 13, 2018

Fun, fast and to the point! I enjoyed watching this training and would suggest it to others. There are some language issues but I felt that it didn't take away from learning. I think this course could have been a little longer given the content he was covering. However, I do appreciate what was covered and how one could come up to speed so quickly. I like that he has added content to the training as needed. Thanks Singh!

Wai

February 11, 2018

At first, I thought this course has only 1 hour content, it should be quite shallow. But I was wrong. This course is better than many GMS2 courses on internet, it covers everything essentials this 1 hour. What I really like is: everything is straight to the point, meat & potato, no fancy and "hard to understand" coding (except the accent, but it's forgivable since the tutor is not a native English speaker, me neither). You can learn text box, inventory, gui, menu etc in just one hour, it's just amazing. I wish the tutor can add more content in it (for example, Equipment system, level up the player & shop system etc), it would be more than perfect for one little course.

Martin

December 4, 2017

Great course! All real world content. Fast pace can create an oral impairment but does not detract from the wealth of knowledge conveyed. Two thumbs up.

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