My First Games - Game Maker Saga Part 1

This is the first part in a 2 part series about some of my earliest coding projects. These were all made when I was 13 to 15 years old so, don't judge too hard!
Games List:
1:18 Street Race
2:08 Ball Jam
2:27 Ball Jam 2
3:00 Mr Pac 2
3:34 Mr Pac 3
4:18 Mr Pac 4
5:12 Joe
5:48 Street Racers
6:27 Mario
7:22 Ultra Pong
7:40 Pinball
8:14 Block-In
8:50 Rollo
9:42 XP Wars
10:14 Teletubbies
10:50 Asteroids 3D
11:24 Star Cruiser
11:43 Star Cruiser 2
Music:
Town.ftm - Razerek
/ razerek

[@oofmiester618]

I took a game design class in middle school, and we used game maker. 1 game I decided to make the music. It was basically only chords, but then everyone in the entire class decided to make all their music too, but no one knew how to. So everyone used the google music creator, created patterns with the notes, and every song sounded terrible. Plus everyone had their speakers on full blast, so you could hear for an entire class just random violin notes. It was the best class I've ever taken to this day

[@klumdumpster5133]

Hmmm we got two levels; grassland and desert, what should we put between them? HELL!

[@EndMaster0]

It's the natural order of things

[@rajanorashikin8680]

EuhEuhEuhEuhEuh

[@Oscar_Armstrong]

The final game is actually extremely impressive.

[@biggiecheese2172]

Eh not really

[@AquaNovaOfficial6621]

i'Ve bEen mAkiNg GaMEs fOR yEaRs

[@tastygem5542]

Darkrai491 if you have been making them for years then you would know why its impressive. Games like that arent easy to code right off the bat.

[@biggiecheese2172]

@@tastygem5542 I mean its not horrible and I understand what has to go into it, but I wouldnt say extremely impressive

[@Oscar_Armstrong]

@@biggiecheese2172 for the time it definitely was. You need to realise he made the game quite some time ago when most software was still in its infantcy.

[@cabininthewoods1]

11:18 I like how it says "astroids" without the e

[@CodeParade]

Spelling was never my strength, especially back then :P

[@redrock9319]

8 letters

[@1e1001]

Rick Astroids

[@DanAtuch_Archives]

@@CodeParade please share star cruiser 2 to github or itch.io🥺

[@Kenlimepie]

When you start running out of ideas for games so you make sequels of sequels:

[@SnailPacedDev]

It's not the ideas that are lacking, it is the methods to accomplish them. Games you have already made are an easier starting point as you understand what you need to some extent to make the game and what improvements could be made based on what you have learned.

[@sofia.eris.bauhaus]

remember: everything is a remix B) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHuzdoWQecusjcU

[@seanandrews5329]

disney pixar these days:

[@turqoisetv5961]

Hi kenlimepie

[@Ensign_games]

activison had ran out in the 90s

[@arfkinq]

Ooo! 3 types of land! Grass , dessert and HELL

[@voxelbugged]

and hell is BEFORE desert

[@sammaksimovich2654]

These are the type of games you would find on coolmathgames when bored at school

[@usualunusualkid7149]

Except for the teletubby one, which would be on newgrounds.

[@bitmikealerts_lol]

@@usualunusualkid7149 yes

[@bitmikealerts_lol]

it also feels like a bunch of cereal box games

[@MagnetismR]

Bless old-school Game Maker. Long live the sandbox.

[@Gooman130]

I still miss it...

[@bup_up]

still use it kinda mostly just 8.2

[@censacrof]

Wow, I started developing an interest in programming and computer science in mid school thanks to game maker too and now I'm studying computer engineering

[@jackmurphy2874]

Really?

[@suwinkhamchaiwong8382]

1:12 Early Footage of World’s Hardest Game

[@kornsuwin]

why did you all like my comment it's not even funny

[@ljvanb1706]

your comment?!

[@adamrath8109]

The nostalgia in this video is amazing. I miss the days of classic GM when it was just in its infancy. My buddy made a wrapper that imported Newton Game Dynamics so we could use 3d physics and it was glorious! Crude fluid physics and destruction simulations, good times!!

[@scotley]

Super cool to see the old logo again. I actually drew this version you are using. Thanks for the vid.

[@WangleLine]

This brings back so many memories, I used to make so much crap in Gamemaker back in the days :D

[@lev7509]

I had basically a similar story but BGE (Blender Game Engine). The official one has been discontinued. However, UPBGE is still a thing!

[@midknight1339]

9:43 the background music is a remix of "Enjoy the Silence" by Depeche Mode :P

[@Assault_Butter_Knife]

wtf you're right

[@heartache5742]

quite jobel, yeah?

[@Bleak13]

Starcruiser 2 music sounds like "My Favourite Game" by The Cardigans and "Popcorn" :)

[@jonathannimmo9293]

I wish I still had all my old projects, I remember many of them, but cant find them. Lumber escape was my magnum opus, you play as a tree and dodge axes from lumberjacks

[@jadimatic1096]

I would love to see star cruiser 2 made into a full game, the music is nice and the gameplay looks pretty interesting!

[@william-afton607]

“There are also different levels. Grasslands, *H E L L* , and Desert.”

[@AgentOrange96]

My first game was also based on that same street racing demo from Game Maker. I basically re-skinned it with a first airplane flight theme and uploaded it to ModDB as "Wright Flyer." It's still available to this day, but is definitely not my best work. xD It's so funny to see such a similar experience here. And yeah, Game Maker Studio has evolved quite significantly from the Game Maker days. While drag and drop is still an option, it's a lot more code oriented today. However, one thing I think even original Game Maker did very well was teach concepts of object oriented programming. Between Game Maker, and then being taught Java later, OOP really is second nature to me. While others have often struggled to get a good grasp on it. Also I love the Microsoft word art in Mr Pac 4!

[@BRD-Senpai]

Dude, these are actually amazing for fangames made by a then-15-year-old. I honestly wonder if you'll ever release these to the public one day.

[@numoru]

It's so clear now, the Teletubbies game inspired Marble Marcher, they're so similar.

[@DemoNova]

I can definitely relate to this, and some of these games really remind me of my early GM projects. I started using Game Maker back in 2000 myself, and since then I've studied quite a bit of programming as well, but it's always just remained a hobby. I still have a few of my earlier games saved, but most of them have unfortunately been lost, and just like you, I've also made a ton of different visualizations and whatnot. I just wish I had saved more games from back when I started, some of them were actually decent, and often very creative. Oh well.

[@Adrischa]

Lol the Teletubbies one. There was an age I would havr found it hilarious as well

[@jakubiszon6495]

I find it hilarious. I am nearly 40 years old...

[@joshuamcmillan6390]

I remember this era. These remind me of a lot of my own early games! I've learned a lot since then, of course! Great video!

[@israelRaizer]

I laughed way too much at how he misses every shot at 12:12 lol

[@SheepUndefined]

Wow, that Catch the Clown midi is so nostalgic to me. GM7 was my intro to gamedev and programming in general.

[@DarkRacknar]

Your video made me nostalgic, I also had a game maker period when I was young and I didn't know how to code. I share you point of view that it was really easy to use, as a child it was really cool to be able to make games without knowing anything about programming. Continue like this I love your videos.

[@ikonhero]

Man the teletubby one was hilarious :D

[@gaunterodimm4884]

This is pretty inspiring man, I'm getting into game making so its awesome to see what you did being younger.

[@jan_harald]

wait... that last music... IT'S A REMIX OF POPCORN! /me loves it

[@leonardofernandez6488]

The last one is incredible. I would have liked it as a kid.

[@HeapsGoodProductions]

Oh man, I'd forgotten about game maker! Used to love that. Great video, very nostalgic.

[@titanderp]

Peaceful looking platformer with peaceful music... *WORLD II: HELL*

[@salvsmith9564]

9:55 enjoy the silence intensifies

[@bloodface24]

Omg thank you for reminding me of the game Jezzball. I found your channel tonight and it's been amazing motivation for my own programming goals, but the name of that game has eluded my memory since I played it back on my old Windows 98 lol.

[@blenjamin]

Really inspiring to see your humble beginnings, lol

[@_wic_]

man, you gave me that nostalgia when i was making gamemaker games lemme share my story :D i was just 10yo and that was my first encounter with gamemaker. i was trying to figure out how operate it. the only thing i had was the so called "index" aka help in gamemaker, because we didnt have internet back then. i also took one of the example games and modified them to learn the basics my early stages of coding seem hilarious now. i knew what "if" was, but i didnt know about "else" so i was trying to come up with ways how to get around that when i needed it i had one project on which i was working on over a year and learnt a lot because of it, sadly i had to scrap it, because the code was unmaintainable when i was at highschool i made few games in XNA .NET, which were on a whole new level of quality. it had graphics shaders, effects, sounds, the game itself was an RTS... ye, that was my big breakthrough back then now, i work with unity. it s a one hell of a project i have in works right now and i just got back to it after several pauses with the knowledge i gained from my job as a programmer (here is a vid from few years back: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqfKgoKnmJeBg8U) (if you want to see some of the projects which i dared to publish on my tumblr... here: wictimcz.tumblr.com you can see for yourself :D PS: if you want to run Grid Void or Subject_P3 you need to find the XNA redist link and install that)

[@gavinthecrafter]

That Star Cruiser 2 game is way better than anything I'll ever make...

[@JohnnyBear]

Yes, I LOVE THIS SERIES thx for making the video and I'll watch any sequels you make😀😀

[@cyclotomic8967]

At 3:57 the music fits perfectly with pacman eating sound

[@asshatt6908]

As an avid user of game maker, I just want to say that, while Game maker Studio is a lot more advanced that what it once was, its still basically the same program at it's core.

[@olbluelips]

Games and visualizations... that’s what I make! Your stuff is very impressive, I especially love the chaos equations. I love star cruiser 2! I made similar space shooters as my early projects. One had an overheat, different flight patterns, and homing/oscillating bullets. No bosses though, though there was a framework set up in my python code but it was so messy I never bothered beyond a test boss

[@kot32_fake]

Mind if you can share the midis that were used in star cruiser 2? I'd like to remake them.

[@katzen3314]

Wish I'd saved all the games I made on Game Maker. One of them was a "world's hardest game" clone and had music comprised of some kind of improv throat singing and bongo drums, recorded and edited in audacity. By comparison you were basically Mozart.

[@Veptis]

I think this is awesome to see, i want to get into image processing myself and recently looked into what to learn. Right now I plan on getting into Python

[@Edlandish]

I started out with Gamemaker 6, it was a simpler time back then. I found a really old backup with all my old games and they’re all kind of terrible :) I got into writing music because I wanted to write music for my games too and then I just kind of stopped doing anything for about 10 years lol. Glad I’ve picked it up again now.

[@muggins2279]

Great school IT memories, I was working on a kind of spy hunter type game but spent way too much focus on making a multi point visual damage system for the player car that it got nowhere. Was really funny watching the police cars scoot wildly across the screen like flies though

[@Shelnovid]

Cool stuff! Reminds me of when i used to mess around with Game Maker. My biggest regret is not finishing the games. All i have to look back on are bunch of prototypes that are not even playable as games...

[@HoneycombTheywontletmeputjusto]

Star Cruiser 2 looks super fun!

[@Blueewu]

3:46 you´re my heart, you´re my soul?

[@ps8883]

7:30 'The AI can never Lose' - that was best 🖖

[@icefire5555]

After coming from your more recent videos. I'm glad you didn't prioritize your music making. LOL. Your coding is amazing!

[@peterstangl8295]

I like how you used "My favorite game" by the Cardigans as soundtrack for the last one. Subtle XD

[@joseivan2337]

I actually started programming with Game Maker. I usually would make these same types of games. Nowadays I'm an electronic engineer

[@KristianMischke]

StreetRace in gamemaker ... Oh the memories 😂

[@lydianlights]

For some reason "THE ALGORITHM" never told me about this video or the next one in the series :c Oh well, I guess now I clicked the bell to make sure that doesn't happen anymore. P.S. Thanks again for making my avatar possible you maniac

[@gplastic]

will you be uploading these games?

[@renaudfensie3020]

Please do it

[@TheAmbientWarrior]

Tbh I really want to play Space Cruiser 2. It actually looks really fun.

[@15098D]

Oh gawd I remembered old Game Maker so fondly ;u; And that old Game Maker default music toooo!

[@RaposaCadela]

Awesome! These games actually look plenty fun

[@andreaspalmqvist7661]

Star cruiser 2 actually looks fun! :)

[@AnasMations]

I really love this kind of videos

[@rninesaver8079]

to made those game must take a long time this video cheery me up alot for study coding! thanks soo much

[@voxelfusion9894]

I started out with game maker 8 back in 2011 and still like to use game maker studio 2 as my go to for 2d games. It's pretty powerful.

[@NonisLuck]

"Grassland, Hell and Desert" 🎵 One of these things is not like the others... 🎵

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

The grassland clearly.

[@kylaxial]

@@theapexsurvivor9538 because the other 2 are hot while grassland is not

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

@@kylaxial no, it's because grassland is a compound word while the other two aren't, clearly.

[@metaparalysis3441]

@@theapexsurvivor9538 clearly deset it doesn't have an E

[@william-afton607]

MetaParalysis Desert has 2 E’s. Probably Grassland is different, because Desert and *HELL* both are warm/hot ‘biomes’. While Grassland, is a bit warm, and not steaming hot.

[@WilliamTheNotFurry]

Teacher: what do you do in your spare time. CodeParade:I make games Where i FUCKING OBLITERATE teletubbies, yea nothing much.

[@coolbeandip]

This is hella nostalgic

[@sebastianwardana1527]

I love this kind of video!

[@15098D]

I started with Gamemaker 7 myself unfortunately I lost all my old games. Also I’ve been looking for the music you used in Street Race desperately

[@amigoads7986]

11:10 wow that game looks so good it look like its 3D

[@steeltalon937]

Star cruiser 2 looks unironically a fun time

[@powergannon]

I started programming using Game Maker 7. Unfortunately, many of my early games have been lost to time but I have managed to save a small number of them to look back on and remind myself how far I've come.

[@gymprofessor329]

Love the Depeche Mode cover in the paintball game!

[@romainthuillez7274]

Bringing back memories ... GameMaker was awesome!

[@MikeCrain]

lol this really takes me back. I did the same thing but with Klik n Play.

[@Nasrul260]

Me Today: woah this dude can make games! Me In The Future: *I wanna hire this guy!*

[@runnerduck4844]

Not half bad! Much better than I could do.

[@william-afton607]

_You have earned a new subscriber._

[@Rustam2704]

11:00 - now that's where Game of Thrones got its music from

[@namedude_dev]

Ah, nice! I started with RPG Maker 95, then RPG Maker 2000, then GameMaker.

[@rubeste]

9:54 Lol Depeche Mode Enjoy the Silence. I love that song :D

[@e_san4950]

Mr.Pac 3 music is modern talking my heart my soul

[@igorthelight]

Cool little games :-) And yes - GameMaker Studio 2 is nice. If you will try it - it will still feels like home :-) Some random information for Windows 10 users: if you can't play some old games - try to install DirectShow. It helps with pre-DirectX9 games.

[@RobertMilesAI]

Extremely relatable and nostalgic content. Game Maker is how I got into programming as well. Did you make all of these as EXEs, or did you find a way to compile old GMK files?

[@bukonut7464]

This is why u earned my sub :)

[@Sacheen]

CodeParade: *makes Mario clone* Nintendo: I'm about to destroy this whole mans career

[@Sacheen]

What the heck my text bold

[@sweetberries4611]

@@Sacheen it happens when you put two asterisks around them

[@william-afton607]

The Game Dev Project & sweetberries Which are these: * *

[@domjanabi6006]

I thought i was bad at creating music when i was 13 but thanks for making me feel better about myself

[@sweetberries4611]

These are really good

[@broomski]

this is really lit

[@u.r.8196]

The version of Popcorn used as the last game's soundtrack is pretty good.

[@jouk91]

The shooting car was actually the game, or it was some sort of tutorial, I made/played the same thing back in the days, so you did not alter the car game to make the cars shoot ;) nice vid though! Game maker was the shit!

[@creativebeetle]

nice choice of boss music there :)

[@autumnshinespark]

I made a few in Game Maker too for a college class. One was a ripoff of "Helmet" from the Nintendo Game&Watch series where you had to get across the screen without getting hit by falling projectiles, only I used elements from my still non-existant RPG 😅

[@arma3koth290]

10:32 I think it’s that time of the month for the purple one

[@Ludifant]

You have no idea how lucky you were to have gamemaker (Thanks to Mark Overmars). I just had a C64 and I had to do machine language to get any performance for games. Still I wrote about 5 or 6 games when I was young (between 9 and 14). One was even more advanced than any of these. Later we got C and even later actionscript and it was heaven. So I kind of missed out on awkward gamemaker phase. I was so used to doing everything myself, I never saw the use. Until Flash came along.

[@FlamingRaptorClaw]

Woah! That's my song!! I freaked out!!

[@Zorbeltuss]

I do remember gamemaker 4-5 fondly, I'm not so fond of how my friends treated my contributions though, I was always left out of the credits.

[@Frrk]

Yeah, classic gamemaker was dope. I made a bunch of different things but never really finished anything lol

[@randomsnow6510]

The telitubies game should be put up on the app store!

[@somebody6240]

Best of all I liked these games: Joe, Rollo, Asteroid 3D

[@Xgamesvidoes]

AWESOME!

[@BluJacketGuy]

"the music I made myself and its awful" 10:51 "Lessoning to the music and starts vibing to the music"