How to Make Tile Based Platform Games in Gamemaker

Learn the basics to build fun and creative platform games, including tricks to add polished and professional features.

Created by: Peter Morgan
Game Maker, Mobile Developer and Teacher

What Will I Learn?

• You will develop a robust platform engine that you can use for future games you make.
• You will learn how to do fast tile based collisions, and have the skills to incorporate it into your own games.
• You will learn how to implement a customizable lighting system that any object in the game can use.
• You will learn how to build custom particles that interact with the environment.
• You will learn how to build a Finite State Machine, and use it to efficiently control your player and enemies.
• You will learn how to implement wave based attacks, player traps, cameras, fade transitions, highscore saving, custom tooltips, screenshake and more.

Requirements

• The Gamemaker software, which is free to use
• PC or Mac capable of running Gamemaker

Target audience

• Beginner/Intermediate who is interested in learning an efficient method of coding platform games using tile collisions
• Someone who is interested in publishing games on Windows or mobile platforms
• Someone curious how a video game is made
• Someone who has dabbled in gamemaking, but would like to extend their skill set.