When you first start writing GML, creating variables feels simple enough. You write something like health = 100;, use the value later, and everything seems fine. Then your project becomes larger. Suddenly, one enemy needs its own health, a temporary damage calculation should disappear after a function finishes, and your total score needs to be … Read more
When you start programming a game, almost everything eventually comes back to one simple idea: storing information. Your player’s health needs to be remembered. The game needs to know how many coins have been collected. An enemy needs a movement speed, a character needs a name, and your menu needs to know whether the sound … Read more
Writing your first line of code can feel intimidating. You may worry about strange symbols, complicated commands, or accidentally breaking your entire project. The good news is that GameMaker Language, better known as GML, is designed to make game programming relatively approachable. GML lets you control almost everything that happens in a GameMaker project. You … Read more
Making a video game involves more than drawing characters and designing levels. The game also needs instructions that determine how the player moves, when enemies attack, how points are calculated, and what happens when someone reaches the end of a level. In GameMaker, many of those instructions are written using GML. But what is GML, … Read more