:: PLEASE NOTE ::
This website has not been updated since AUGUST 2003!
Many of the links do not work because free web accounts expired.
Please send comments and/or tutorial requests to fiddlinboy (at) gmail (dot) com.
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Game Maker Tutorial by Fallen^Angel The basics of an Arkanoid game. |
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Beginner's Guide to Game Maker Programming by Carl Gustaffson This well-written tutorial explains many of the basics of GML by applying them to a scrolling shooter. (Beginner) |
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Good Programming by Allen Cheung "The purpose of this document is to give the user a greater understanding of GML, the techniques involved, and the untapped power within." (Advanced) |
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Advanced Platform Concepts by Locstadude How to make moving platforms, in-game title screens, health bars, screen fading, and dialog boxes. (Intermediate) |
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360 Rotation by Sayain Prince Shows how to make an object rotate and shoot. (Beginner) |
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Picture Viewer by Fallen^Angel Load and display pictures. |
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MPlayer by Fallen^Angel and Balafou A media/CD player. |
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GMCollection by Fallen^Angel (Right-click, save target as.) A collection of Game Maker games including Pong, Pacman, Snake, "Virtual Rabbit", and a platform tutorial. Each game has it's on folder for each resource, so you can easily see which objects and rooms are related to each game. |
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Particle Crosshairs by RealDesertFox Particle effect on a crosshair that follows the mouse. |
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Track Player by Matthew King Click the buttons to play different songs, or the "stop" button to stop all songs. |
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Pearl Harbor by Matthew King A sidescroller game where you are a submarine and must shoot the enemy planes. |
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Nightvision by Matthew King How to make things appear in nightvision by colorizing green. |
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Cannon by Matthew King A cannon that fires and "kicks". |
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Zelda Scrolling by Fiddlinboy How to scroll from room to room as in the Zelda games. |
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Jetpack by Nin10doman and Matthew King Shows how to make a jetpack in a platform game. Programming by Nin10doman, graphics by Matthew King. |
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Alien Attack by Fiddlinboy Space Invaders game with 10 levels and two bosses. |
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Magic Wand by RealDesertFox Particle effect on a cursor object. |
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Drag and Drop by BeardedAnimal Contains three examples on how to drag and drop objects with the mouse. |
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GMPaint 2.0 by Fiddlinboy Painting program that can be used to create icon-sized sprites for your game. |
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Health Bar Generator by Fiddlinboy A program I made a year ago that generates health bars. This is the .gmd so you will need Game Maker to use it. Also includes an example on how to use the script. |
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Zelda Example by TheRealMethuselah Nice Zelda example that includes sword slashing and bombs. |
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Level Editor by Fiddlinboy How to make a separate level editor for your game. Writes the position of the objects to a file in the level editor, then reads the file in the level reader. |
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Fireworks by RealDesertFox Fireworks that travel up the screen and explode into random colors. |
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Space Background Example by Primal How to make stars scroll with several transparent background images. |
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Earthquake by Shoulaish Make the ground shake with one heavy tomato... |
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Shadow Text by Shoulaish How to draw text with shadows. |
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Flashlight Cursor by Eric Zijlstra The mouse lights up areas of the room like a flashlight. |
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Simple Tank AI by Fiddlinboy Shows how to make an enemy tank that will follow you and shoot when close enough. |
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Pacman by Fiddlinboy Pacman game with bonuses, powerups, and monsters. Includes five levels. |
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Glowing Text by Fiddlinboy A program that generates the HTML for glowing text. Also writes a HTML document to preview. |
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Cannon Fodder by Alf Fly How to shoot towards the mouse. |
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Mouseover by Alf Fly "The mouse is currently over me!" |
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Fishpond Example by Dorfsquest A pond to swim around in... |
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Animated Background by Fiddlinboy How to make a background animated by cycling through different background images. |
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Compass by Fiddlinboy A compass that points towards the mouse. |
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Credits by Fiddlinboy How to make scrolling credits without a large image. |
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Horizontal Health Bar by Fiddlinboy Horizontal health bar that fades from green to red, and shows the health as a percent. |
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Parallax Backgrounds by Fiddlinboy How to make parallax backgrounds in a sidescroller game. |
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Scrolling Text by Fiddlinboy Scrolls text on the screen after you enter text and pick the color and size. |
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Split Screen by Fiddlinboy How to show multiple views on the screen. Includes five view layouts with two, three, and four views. |
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Tank Rotation by Fiddlinboy How to move and rotate an object like a tank. |
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Vertical Health Bar by Fiddlinboy Vertical Health Bar that fades from green to red and shows the health as a percent. |
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Interactive Text by Killerned Text that appears one letter at a time, in typing style. |
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Paint by Killerned A painting program that draws rectangles and round-rectangles. |
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Radio Box by Killerned How to make form buttons. |
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Flashlight by Nin10doman How to make a flashlight using black objects to cover areas of the maze. (Slow) |
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Maze Game by Nin10doman A nice maze game example. |
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Putt Putt by Nin10doman A putt putt example with slopes. |
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Sight Cone by Sayain Prince How to make an enemy's LOS. (Line of Sight.) |
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Status Bar by Titus A status bar that stays in the top of the view and shows the life, score, and energy. Done entirely with the drawing event. |
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Clock by TKLeong A clock that shows the time with an hour, minute, and second hand. Also shows the date. |
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Object Move by TKLeong Move the object around using the mouse. |
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Sliding Puzzle by TKLeong Position the pieces in this sliding puzzle by using the mouse. |
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Tic Tac Toe by TKLeong A Tic Tac Toe game. |
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Countdown Timer by TKLeong Shows how to make a timer using the drawing functions of Game Maker. |