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Game Maker has been the cornerstone of my video game design and development instruction for some time now. In the past, I have used it to as a tool in summer computer camps, after school programs, and a unit in our school's gifted and talented program. This blog post provides links to a number of video tutorials and GameMaker 8.1 source files to demonstrate specific skills using GameMaker 8.1.

This blog post includes links to my GameMaker Studio Tutorial Videos: The following tutorials are generally updated versions of the GameMaker 8.1 videos. The changes are subtle, so you should be able to use the GameMaker 8.1 and GameMaker Studio tutorials interchangeably. The initial set of GameMaker Studio tutorials will guid you through creating a Maze / Adventure game.

This video will help you create an application (installer) and share your game in the YoYoGames sandbox.

Use the free web-based soundation.com music authoring tool to make awesome music and bring your created music into your GameMaker game. (7:46)

This tutorial will show you how to seperating a tileset into tiles and using them to create room visuals (11:35)

This video will show you how to create and display a health bar above your character. This example uses the draw event and draw health actions. (7:48)

This tutorial will show you how to downloading spritesheets (from http://www.spriters-resource.com) and extracting the animation from the sheet using GameMaker's Sprite Editor (7:17)

This tutorial will show you how to use a controller object to display (draw) the health and lives in your game. (8:22)

This tutorial will show you how to have an enemy automatically shoot objects in a given direction. This tutorial utilizes a step event and the random action to randomize the occurrence of the enemy projectiles. (2:23)

This tutorial will show you how to create a main character that can shoot a projectile based on the direction he is moving. (7:38)

This video will show you how to use a step event in GameMaker 8 to create a loop that continually checks the location of an object and has another object move toward it. (3:40)