Keyboard controls may look simple from the player’s perspective. Press W to move forward, Space to jump, and Escape to open the pause menu. Behind the scenes, however, the game must recognise exactly when each key is pressed, held, or released. Learning how to use keyboard input in GameMaker is one of the first essential … 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