Comments on: Need Help?

By: BiiSalvatore

BiiSalvatore — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:15:50 +0000

Hey, I was wondering if someone could help me with my problem.
Basically, I’m making a hurdle race game, and if the play jumps over the hurdle without touching it, then they get 10 points. I was wondering how you go about this. Would I have to make an invisible object just after the hurdle which, when touched, would cause the score to go up, or can I do something to the hurdle object itself?

I was also wondering how to make a count-up timer. I keep searching all over youtube for a tutorial but all I find are count down timers.
And is it possible for the game to remember the time that the count-up timer is at when the player finishes a race?

One of the main parts of my game is to get a certain time to be able to go onto the next race, and would the game reconize that the time is at a certain amount and wouldn’t allow the player to continue on and would end the game?

Sorry for the long post, It’s hard to explain this in words.

P.S: I am using the pro version of Game Maker 8, if this helps.

By: Programmer629

Programmer629 — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:20:42 +0000

Hi! I was wondering how to make gml recognize that a menu item has been clicked. i tried this:

{
show_menu(‘hi’,'i’);
if mouse_check_button_clicked(mb_left) = (‘hi’)
room_goto(room_new);
}

i was wondering how to fix it.

please help

By: PSGamer400

PSGamer400 — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:53:09 +0000

Hi! Im making lbp fangame and want to know these stuff:
1. Item menu.
2. Online gameplay.
3.Physics.
4. Co-op gameplay
thnx

By: majic7

majic7 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:24:32 +0000

trying to make a diablo type game. any tutorials on those specifics? like click attacking melee and ranged, etc. or is there an engine I can get???

By: Soul collector maker

Soul collector maker — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:45:45 +0000

I can`t seem to leave the same score. I mean, my score resets if I go to the next level. Is there any solution to it?

By: Anonomous

Anonomous — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 04:22:23 +0000

@Umsy i don’t think their is anyway to do that unless you code a script to make a player lose lives and it detects it so it carries on to the next level such as this quick code i wrote up:

if (health_points == 10)
{

my_color = c_green;
show_message(“You are at full health”);

}

else if (health_points <=10)

{
my_color = c_red;
show_message("You are almost dead");
}

else show_message("You are dead");

but thats what you would want but you would have to edit it to make it whatever your life works in the game or you could just add a total amount of health points and use my code.

By: Umsy

Umsy — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:30:16 +0000

BTW Can anyone tell me how to continue health, score and lives onto the next level/room.

pls help

By: Umsy

Umsy — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:23:29 +0000

Scrolling shooters, eh
To solve your problems do this:
1. For explosion to disappear once it appears u need to go to your explosion obj. and put an ‘animation end’ event and tell it to destroy the instance.
2. In your controller life obj., or whatev it is, put in a ‘draw’ event and tell it to draw a health bar and draw lives as images. Set the x and y values to whatev u want but make sure it’s not relative.
3. To get a plane back after it’s destroyed go to your enemy plane obj., create a ‘step’ event, put in a test variable with variable y, value room_height and larger than. Then put a jump to position in with x as random(room_width) and y as -20 (not relative).
4. Am confused with this one.
5. Don’t know about set paths.

Hope dis helps.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:44:24 +0000

I’ve got some problems with my levels. I have an upgrade game where you are in a spaceship and shoot asteroids. The game works fine until I get to level 10. You complete level 9 and go to the upgrades room. After a few seconds in the room (or maybe if it is when you upgrade something, I haven’t figured it out) the level variable dissapears. I ran it in debug mode to watch it, and when it got to the room, it took it off of the list. Then when you go to the level, it takes you to level 10, but the view is screwed up, because it is in the right place, but you don’t see it in the right place. It is hard to understand, and I will probably have to just give somebody the game to figure it out. Please help if you can.

By: ASAtech

ASAtech — Sun, 22 May 2011 21:26:58 +0000

I’m working with a group of 8th graders trying to learn how to use Game Maker. We successfully completed the first tutorial (fruit game). Now we are completely stumped on the scrolling shooters game. Do you have any ideas or tutorials that can help us?

I’m an absolute novice at this. The kids have good intuition though and I’d like for them to continue to try to create their own games without getting frustrated.

Here are some of the problems we’re having:
Cannot get the explosion object to disappear once it appears
Confusion on the drawing of life and health – I’ve done it twice but I cannot get anything to change.
Once we kill our enemy planes, we cannot figure out how to get them back.
Can reset the game when we die, but it starts over instead of using the set lives
Confused about the set paths part of the tutorial for the enemy planes.

Sorry I know this seems like a lot and it is. It seems like there is a huge learning curve between tutorials numbers one and two.

Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you for your time

By: DARXIDE

DARXIDE — Sun, 15 May 2011 17:20:51 +0000

Any chance for a slope or ramp tutorial?

By: GAmer

GAmer — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:55:31 +0000

Hi!
please upload new gmk files because i can’t find them!

By: terminaator155able

terminaator155able — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:39:22 +0000

Hey, Can anyone tell me how to make a Metroid like power up like the morph ball? Without making more objects..

By: Austin

Austin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:21:02 +0000

I need to know how to make one of my enemys shoot an item at my player, i checked that one tutorial how to make an enemy throw stones but i didnt understand, can someone make a more detailed tutorial?

By: Anwarrex

Anwarrex — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:38:21 +0000

[colour=FFFFFF] Hey I Am Anwarrex, I Asked If Someone Can Help Me With Telling Me How To Make The Room Bigger… Beacuse Everytime I Cross The Line Ending Of The Room It Keep Saying Me An Error.. It Isn’t That I Stepped Over The Self Room It Is I Need To Do The Room Bigger Someway…Please Help Me![colour]

By: javi

javi — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:37:43 +0000

Me gusta

Mario bros.

By: a cool guy

a cool guy — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:23:08 +0000

hello! I would want to know more about animations in a plattform-game beacuse my games SUCKS when it comes to animation

By: marck janssen

marck janssen — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:38:13 +0000

please halp me??????????

By: marck janssen

marck janssen — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:37:36 +0000

Hallo I am making a shooting platvorm game bud i wanted a big room

i now how to make whan but when i play the game it doesent is like a mario games that you see a littel of the hole room no you see the hole room and that makes the sprites varry thin how do i make it right?

By: Shevas

Shevas — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:35:52 +0000

Hey jou, I got this mega problem with slopes that have my balls blue, what ive done looks very glitchy and unreal, do you know a code to make it smooth with any slope, curves etc? please help me bro, all your tutorials are the best i have used

By: Dr.GameMaker

Dr.GameMaker — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:31:29 +0000

Hi to all,

If you want to contribute to the kids learning from this site (world wide), just upload the video tutorial you made to YouTube and then send me the link, I will post it in the right place for it here in this site!

many thanks,

Dr.GameMaker

By: SuperSonic511

SuperSonic511 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:48:24 +0000

i want to upload a tutorial

By: TheEpikMUSIC

TheEpikMUSIC — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:20:11 +0000

i set my lives to 3 and if i lose a level it goes to 2. But when i got to the next level, my lives reset!
How do i make it so that the lives will carry over to the next level

By: Dr.GameMaker

Dr.GameMaker — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:31:46 +0000

Hi Black Hawk,

I posted a new tutorial about explosions for you in the special effects category.

let me know how it works out!

Yours,
Dr.GameMaker

By: Black Hack Down Games

Black Hack Down Games — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:41:27 +0000

How do you use the explosions effect premade for you in the pro eddition. It does not appear corectly.