New Article: Your first game! Part 1: Moving Around (Patreon)

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2015-03-01 18:05:37

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2023-12

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Let me know if you find any dumb spelling mistakes. Took quite a bit of time to write this one up and make all of the images. I really like using gifs in these articles, it's very much a best of both worlds feeling for something between just text and just video. There's a lot of images though and I want to break up the article into multiple parts if I learn how to do that properly in wordpress. -S

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Your first game! Part 1: Moving Around

Assuming you now understand the very basics by which GameMaker: Studio operates (and if you don't I highly recommend reading my article on said basics) we can now dive in and start actually using the software to build something playable! This tutorial series aims to recreate the classic game "Asteroids" using GameMaker: Studio and some basic scripting.