A GameMaker Tutorial For Complete Beginners

[@pastelzen]

I love your voice man! It's so calming compared to some other tutorial channels.

[@reedrehg]

Ah, thanks. It's still tough for me to listen to myself 😂 so glad to hear that it's not painful for everyone else.

[@8bombart]

You’re an excellent teacher. Let me just say, I wasn’t able to find a video where it explained the details and differences between the Rooms, Sprites and Objects and what they did in detail. The way you explained the relation between them and how to apply them with understanding, made things come together with these few basic steps. I understand that even when learning code and adding nodes, it’s important to know how everything plays out within the Assets Browser and Inspector since these are these are important tools. When you’re learning how to make a game for the first time, these things are crucial regardless if your learning code or not, because eventually, you’ll face the challenges of coding anyways and that’s another whole subject within itself. Steps are great for first timers but understanding the fundamentals is what’s going to make you and hopefully not break you. Will you have more videos? Thank you

[@reedrehg]

Wow, thanks! More videos are on the way.

[@perramistica8145]

Hey thank you Ive been trying to learn how to make ANYTHING Playeable but i couldnt understand most of the tutorials i saw but yours, You really helped me also mentioning gamemaker was so userful i couldnt fully understand Unity and couldnt get my player moving.. you are the best please keep going i love how you explained eveeything and i want to learn more from you

[@reedrehg]

Awesome! Glad it helped you. I also struggled with Unity in the beginning but GameMaker clicked much quicker. Thanks for the kind comment. You'll see more videos coming!

[@EROSNERdesign]

Another great video!! Thanks!

[@CalebIrle]

Thanks for the tutorial! Quick question: when my trees spawn they spawn at the original tiny size of the sprite instead of matching the size of the player and road that were scaled up. Any ideas how to fix this?

[@stxballerx16]

Great video, thank you! When you scaled your object up to be proportionate to the necessary game window, how did you get a clear image when you run the game? Scaling the object up made my character blurry. Is there any settings I need to change that weren’t mentioned in the video?

[@reedrehg]

Not any specific settings I'm aware of. Are you using the same sprite I had? Or did you make your own?

[@stxballerx16]

@@reedrehg I made my own sprite for this exercise. I did a bit of deep dive afterwards and saw something that recommended turning off the option “interpolate colors between pixels”. This seemed to fix the issue of blurry sprites, but still a bit confused what that means, or why it is turned on by default.

[@reedrehg]

Ah alright. Here's a description gamemaker.info/en/manual/302_01_graphics Also, it looks like it getting automatically enabled may be a bug. github.com/YoYoGames/GameMaker-Bugs/issues/2343

[@stxballerx16]

@@reedrehgthank you so much!

[@whdeen]

No hate to ppl with a strong indian accent but FINALLY someone without an accent.

[@reedrehg]

To be fair, I still have an accent. A Midwestern American accent. And there's some amazing Indian content creators out there.

[@charlot6590]

this sounds like the definition of "hate to ppl with a strong Indian accent"

[@blockshift758]

I think the problem with tutorials is the "students" are just following the steps and not understand why that step is there

[@blockshift758]

Thank you i now know what an object is

[@reedrehg]

I agree that's part of it. I actually mention that in the video.

[@Wjshintx]

for some reason when I follow the steps around the 22 minute mark, the game crashes with a code error saying: ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Step Event0 for object obj_road: Variable .instant_furthest(100003, -2147483648) not set before reading it. at gml_Object_obj_road_Step_0 (line 7) - var last_road = instant_furthest(x, y, obj_road); ############################################################################################ gml_Object_obj_road_Step_0 (line 7) and I just wasn't able to make it work

[@reedrehg]

Looks to be a typo @Wjshintx the function name should be "instance_furthest". In the error, it's showing that you are trying to call "instant_furthest".

[@Wjshintx]

@@reedrehg wow, now I feel dumb. Thanks.

[@reedrehg]

😂 eh don't worry about it, it happens, carefully read through error messages next time and you'll catch the problem quicker

[@Wjshintx]

@@reedrehg I was literally reading through the error message for almost an hour, and I kept on comparing my code to the video, thanks though, now it works

[@Wjshintx]

@@reedrehg also, the funny thing was that it was showing an error code for everything else BUT that (at least to my beginner coding mind)