The Game Maker's Companion (Technology in Action)




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- •Learn the fundamentals of how to create platform games with nature’s first platform game character: Fishpod.
- •Discover how to recreate the classic 90’s platform game Zool (Ninja of the Nth Dimension) entirely using drag-and-drop programming.
- •Learn how to extend and improve upon the drag-and-drop functionality of Game Maker using GML scripts.
- •Follow the design of the atmospheric platform-adventure game Shadows on Deck from original concept to a completed vertical slice of gameplay.
- •See how professional designers create engaging storylines with believable characters.
- •Learn how to modify the Shadows on Deck artwork to include in your own games.
- •Experience a practical journey into game development which has been unparalleled since The Game Maker’s Apprentice.
- •Gain access to professional game resources from Shadows on Deck which you are free to use in your own Game Maker games.
- •Greetings, Game Maker
- •Platform Beginnings: An Idea with Legs
- •Zool: Taking It to the Nth Dimension
- •Empowerment: Sliding Ninjas
- •Krool’s Forces: Sweetening the Challenge
- •Fighting Talk: The Empower Strikes Back
- •Game Design: “Shadows on Deck”
- •Storytelling in Theory
- •Storytelling Applied
- •Of Mice and Pen: Pirate Art
- •GML: From Ninja to Pirate
- •Rogues’ Rendezvous: Vertically Sliced
- •The Story Begins
- •Feature Reference
- •Rogues’ Rendezvous: Dialogue
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The Game Maker's Companion (Technology in Action)
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