Make monsters move towards your player

In this Game Maker video tutorial you will learn how to use a step event in GameMaker 8 to create a loop that continually checks the location of an object and has another object move toward it.

(credit MrSRIsaacs)

April 23rd, 2010 | Tags: enemies, movement | Category: Advance Features, Game Enemies | 6,078 views | (5 votes)

4 comments to Make monsters move towards your player

• Rodrigo

  October 4th, 2010 at 22:40

  Hi i did what you do here, but know i have a problem, i have a plataform game here, so if i jump, he fly xd
  and another problem is that if i kill the enemy it give me a error
  ERROR in
  action number 2
  of Step Event
  for object obj_enemy1:

  Error in expression:obj_player.x
  position 12: Unknown variable x

• helpful_ozzy

  October 11th, 2010 at 14:10

  did you name the object that was being chased did you name it on the move toward the same as the actual object coz you could have the thing being chased called “bob” and the move towards object2

• Bob Cole

  January 31st, 2011 at 09:26

  Hm, dosn’t really work for me. All that happens is that the “teacher” is running to the upper left corner.

• Djokjula

  July 1st, 2011 at 12:42

  How can i create an object that moves towards her when she gets closer?

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