ABSTRACT
GameMaker: Studio’s user-friendly drag-and-drop interface allows both hobbyists and professionals alike to easily create video games. GameMaker: Studio allows potential designers with little or no coding experience to quickly design games and export them to various platforms. More advanced designers can make use of Game Maker Language or GML, the coding language of GameMaker: Studio, to create dynamic professional commercial products. This book will train you to use the GameMaker: Studio engine to create games in a variety of genres starting with the basic tools GameMaker: Studio provides and continuing to advanced options and techniques including using GML. The fi rst step in our journey is to explore in more detail what GameMaker: Studio is and who uses it.
