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GameMaker Tutorials

Here’s a list of GameMaker Studio (1.x and 2) tutorials or articles I’ve written. Most recent is on top. Oldest is down at the bottom.

Please note that I am a hobbyist developer and these are to be taken as my public notes about how I do (or used to do) things.

Some content might be outdated. Other articles might be completely wrong! Feel free to question the stuff I wrote.

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Feel free to leave comments below this page or below the tutorial’s articles. Also feel free to suggest corrections or ask for specific tutorials. Cheers.

  • GameMaker Studio new Collision Detection issues (1/30/2022)
  • Even better (high speed) moving platforms (4/29/2020)
  • Better moving platforms (4/24/2020)
  • Moving Platforms – Horizontal and Vertical (4/12/2020)
  • Platformer engine cleanup and fixes (1/28/2020)
  • Jump through / one way platforms (12/27/2019)
  • How to code a platformer engine (12/23/2019)
  • Top 3 GameMaker Udemy Courses (11/22/2019)
  • Screen Tearing / Wavy Effect in GameMaker Studio 2 (using Surfaces) (3/1/2018)
  • Guide to develop low resolution 2D platformers with smooth movement and pixel perfect collisions in GameMaker Studio 2 (with slopes) (2/17/2018)
  • Scaling up my game 4x without resizing a single sprite (GM:S 1.4) (10/29/2017)
  • Separation of Concerns in GameMaker Studio (10/29/2017)
  • Sprites with different images dimensions in GameMaker Studio 2 (8/8/2017)
  • Advanced Animation Control in GameMaker Studio 2 – Method 1 (8/1/2017)
  • Scale 2D pixel art games using surfaces to avoid pixel decimation in GameMaker Studio 2 (7/19/2017)
  • GameMaker Studio 2 Linux Configuration (7/16/2017)
  • Room Start Event Execution Order for Persistent Objects in GameMaker: Studio (5/2/2017)
  • How I Scale Fuzeboy Resolution on Mobile and Desktop Devices (3/20/2017)
  • Optimizing Collision Code (1/17/2017)
  • Basic Platformer Mechanics in GameMaker: Studio (1/14/2017)
  • Devlog #1 – GameMaker: Studio new Project (11/14/2016)
  • Choosing the right resolution for a 2D Platformer (5/20/2016)
  • How I positioned the tileset in my tech demo (5/6/2016)

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