I made a video game from scratch! Game Maker Studio 2 tutorial - Making a game

Okay, so changes I have made on my game.

I've recently discovered how you can click

on objects by hovering the mouse over the

object. So you can see when I put my mouse

over it, it flashes green. This was quite

simple to implement. Just do an if

statement. If the mouse cursor is over the

area which is within the hitbox of the

item, then it will flash to the second

sprite of the objects,

and I just copy and pasted. So in one

object there's 2 sprites. The first sprite

is just this image, and then the second

one is a copy and paste but with the black

outlines replaced with green, so it has

this kind of effect that you're

highlighting it. So this opens up a lot of

possibilities. Instead of using the

keyboard to access items, which was my way

of interacting with objects in the past,

instead of pressing E, you can now click

on the computer and it'll open up the

computer. Now from your computer you can

do lots of things. You can— there's

going to be a YouTube button so you can

watch YouTube, and you can also upload

videos. And you collect tapes which will

be hidden around the map, and then you can

upload it and then it will give you a

random amount of money. But for now it's

just this Then you've got Amazon

where you can do shopping. That looks

weird. It's supposed to be a bullet, but

it looks like something else. You can buy

grenades and bullets. Uh,

that's broken. So it's supposed to give

you bullets if you've got money, but it

just minused my money down to -50.

And this last one will be the ticket. I'm

going to add more things you can buy.

Then you've got the in-game stock market

where you can spend $100. I don't have any

money. Okay, so you can get money when

you start the game. If you check your

email, you'll see you got an email from

the Job Center and they'll give you $500.

You get a message But it's currently

bugged now because you can keep clicking

on it and you keep getting money.

So I've got to find a way to get rid of

that. And then you've got a message from

Emi, your Japanese pen pal,

and message from the haters.

So that'll give you a bit of an intro to

the game and the story.

So I don't know why the button clicking

gets louder and louder. So you can buy

stocks like that, and then this is the

amount of money— oh my God, oh, I thought

I said 30,000. Oh, it's 300. So this is

the amount of money you have in your

stocks. So when you buy a stock, it takes

the money out your main account. See,

it's minusing it from the top, and then

it transfers it into your stock account,

and then it goes up and down randomly.

And then the idea is after a while it

would either be up or it'll be down, and

then you can sell everything, and then the

money will get transferred back into your

account minus or plus any profits or

losses. And that's the computer system.

And then you've got this button here, it

closes the whole thing.

And then you've got the bed. You've got to

stand on top of the bed and then you can

go to sleep like that.

And that would refill your hearts back to

8,

and it's gonna do some other things. But

it was quite difficult getting this

timing. You see how it times out and fades

to black and then stays black for a few

seconds? That required a global variable

that starts at 0, and then when you click

on it, it starts counting down. And then I

put— when the global variable is like -10,

the black screen disappears, and then I

set the image alpha to start fading out so

it eventually disappears. And along with

the Zs, disappears. Oh, that's broken.

Damn it. The Z's supposed to disappear

when it gets to 0.5 alpha. Now it

just respawns the Z's on top of it. Yeah,

I need to fix that.

I don't know why that's not working. Oh,

now I've got Z stuck on top of my face.

Okay, let me restart the game.

Don't know why it disappeared the first

time, but then the second time it just

Okay,

so that's the sleep system. You can see

there's a guy up there. Someone— that's

someone's character because they paid me

to create a character for him in the game.

I'm gonna create a level for him as well,

and the level is gonna be a dream. So when

you sleep, I want there to be dreams, and

it's going to be randomly generated. And

one of the dreams is going to be the level

that this person requested me to add

in for him. And then you'd wake up at the

end of the level, you'd wake up, and then

text would come up saying, oh, that was a

weird dream, something like that. So then

you can leave the bedroom, or you could

just stay in.

Pick up the gun. Now I added some code so

that when you're in the room and you're

clicking on the computer, he doesn't fire.

You have no idea how tricky that was,

because before, every time, every time I

clicked like that, he would shoot. And

then when I clicked on the computer, he

would shoot. So I had to put a code in. I

can't remember what I did. And also when

you click it, he would shoot, but I fixed

that. So he can't shoot unless you move

again. So it doesn't shoot as soon as you

press the button. And then I added these

trees in the background, which look quite

nice. Look at that. I think the trees look

pretty good. I like the way

they've got spikes and little branches

coming out. These are the enemies,

same as before.

Okay, I'm running out of bullets. And then

when you're running out of bullets, you

can go back to the computer, you can buy

more bullets.

I need to add a sound effect.

And then we can go to the petrol station.

Petrol station's up here. Why is it so

loud? We go up

the hill and this is the petrol station.

It's just a temporary template at the

moment, and my plan for the petrol station

is I want to make it so you can work

at the petrol station and do night shifts.

To earn some extra money. And then here

we've got traffic going up and down.

I haven't designed the cars yet. It's

funny they go backwards and forwards like

that because

the petrol station is on a busy road

in real life, so I wanted to represent

that with a busy road next to it.

So you could go to the petrol station to

do some work, or you can just kill people.

I'm out of bullets. And then when you die,

it's not game over. So before, when you

died, it was game over and it reset

everything, but now it just makes you lose

$500, and then you can press space to

continue and it resets you back in the

bedroom. So I completely got rid of the

guy's— the tutorial I copied from, he had

a whole menu system, and when you died,

it would restart, restart the whole game.

I got rid of all that and I made my own

one. I got rid of the menu system as well,

so nothing happens when you press Escape.

There's no menu, there's no new game or

continue. It just carries on from where

you left off. And when you die, it doesn't

really reset anything, it just takes you

back to your bedroom, which I think is

pretty cool.

Oh, where's that button? That's funny.

I can go onto the roof and

we've got the rocket launcher.

I need to design the rockets. Then you've

got the girl on the roof. She's not really

going to be on the roof, she's just there

to test things. You can hold her hand by

pressing E and then she'll follow you.

You can take her to the bedroom. When you

take her to the bedroom,

you can make love, and then you can make

baby Daniels. Look, you shut the door,

bring her onto the bed, and then you can

do this, and then little baby Daniels come

out. I don't know

if I'm actually gonna have this in the

game. It's just for fun. Make loads of

Daniels and they'll run around,

and then you can open the door. And if

they touch an enemy, they actually kill

the enemy, but they'll just destroy the

Army of Daniels.

It's a bit overpowered because as soon as

they touch the enemy, the enemy gets

killed. Haha, I thought it was funny.

No, I'm not a mass murderer. I'm defending

my house from the evil haters.

Now you can go up here. I made a little

trap. I put these spikes that

you die if you fall on, and I also made

this trap here. Watch this. This is cool.

So you'd see these special orbs and you

think, oh, I'm gonna go and get the

special orbs. Oh look,

they're so easy to get. All you have to do

is run in here and then you get trapped

and the enemies spawn behind you.

You got nowhere to run and then you die if

you don't kill them fast enough. I'm going

to make lots of little traps like that

around the level, so I'm going to tempt

the player to try and come collect

the goodies. And then I'm gonna trap them

somehow.

I could do a trapdoor, maybe like a door

that closes in behind them, and then

they've got to figure out how to get out.

And there's going to be platforming and

lava, stuff like that. Maybe like a cave

you go into and then the entrance gets

collapsed in, and then you,

you're underground Why is he holding the

rocket launcher and the machine gun at the

same time? Look at that, he's got the

rocket launcher and the machine gun out.

That's weird.

Yeah, the game's looking pretty good, I

think. At first I

was a bit unhappy at how it looked.

But I think I put some work into the art

style. Uh, I'm quite happy with it. I need

to thicken up some of these black lines to

make it stand out a bit more, but I quite

like the way it's looking.

Apart from this gun, it looks weird when

he's pointing it down.

And I, I don't like the way— cuz he's

supposed to be holding the gun, but then

you can see his arms flapping in the back.

So that's what I have so far. You can do

your stocks. I don't have enough

money.

And then if you press S, you can save the

game, and then game saved. You can close

it down and then reopen it, and then it'll

carry on where you left it. Then you can

upload your videotapes to YouTube, and

then you'll make a bit of money.

And then you can buy stuff, check your

email, buy some stocks.

It was pretty tricky trying to figure out

how to keep this stock number ticking up

and down because I had to use an alarm

timer. So when you click this button, it

activates the alarm that makes the stock

global variable go up and down by a random

number between -1 and +1. But then when I

closed it down, I had to destroy the

button, otherwise the button would just be

floating there. But if I destroyed the

button, it also destroyed the alarm and

stopped the stock number from ticking up

and down. So I did something sneaky.

I made it so when you close the computer,

instead of destroying this button, It just

moves the button to the top of the screen

out of view. It's still there. It's

actually just on top of

the roof. I need to make it higher so you

can't see it. I can't get up there now,

but it should be right up there. Just a

little sneaky thing I did.

Where is it? Yeah, there it is. Look. You

can see it's up there.

The button's just up in the sky. I need

the button to exist for the stock number

to keep going up and down. So you can see

it's still moving, and I lost $20 in my

in-game stock market.

Now I've got minus $8.

Baby Daniel's running around.

I think I'll start working on the petrol

station soon. I want to add maybe

a silhouette of a person here walking up

and down. That'd be pretty cool. And then

I've got to add some red to the top, add

the petrol station logo. I want to add

maybe a car here fueling up.

And then maybe I'll add a whole new level

so when you press on the door of the

petrol station it takes you to a different

instance. And then you're inside,

the whole level will be inside of the

petrol station and then you'll be dressed

up in the uniform. And then you've got to

do stuff like sweep the floor. Serve the

customers, and then it's like a minigame

where you make money.

So that's my game so far. I think it's

looking pretty good, if I don't say so

myself. Is there any progression

in the story? Yeah, there will be, and the

story will be mostly told through the

email system, which would kind of give

you quests. So the main quest is

to meet Emi from Japan that you met

online.

This email here. So the main goal is to

meet Emi and save up money to buy a plane

ticket, and then you buy the plane ticket

and then it will take you to Japan, the

Japan level.

And then you'll leave the house and then I

might, I might make a guest house. So

instead of having this house, you would

start off in the guest house in Japan and

then that'll be your home base where your

bed will be, your computer will be, I'll

design a laptop as well.

And then you have different things to do

in Japan, like going on dates,

and I don't know if there'll be shooting.

It just seems kind of weird. You're

running around Japan, you're just machine

gunning down things. Seems a bit serial

killer-y.

What else should I add to it? What ideas

are there?

Maybe I can add the Nepalese guy as a

boss.

Only have the gun in the dreams. Yeah, I

do feel like it's a bit weird that you're

kitted out in a machine gun and a rocket

launcher, and it's supposed to be kind of

realistic in the sense that it's set in a

world based off of my own real life.

But then without the shooting, what is the

game? It's just like running up and down.

It's a running up and down simulator.

Maybe I can make it more like Shenmue

where it's more about characters and doing

stuff instead of just Gunning down hordes

of people.

Instead of a gun, you should hold a

camera. Make your vlogs.

Maybe. But then what would you be shooting

at?

Maybe your job would be instead of holding

a gun. Yeah, you hold a camera and then

clicking the shoot button would. Start

filming. And then instead of ammunition,

you'd have an SD card or film.

And then you'd have to go around the map

and try and find interesting things to

film. So maybe there's a car crash, and

then you find it, and then you start

filming it. And then you take the footage

back home, you upload it, and then it

would give you money. It just seems kind

of boring though. What's the challenge?

Because at least when you're fighting the

enemies, the challenge is to not get shot

and to avoid them and dodge them.

It does kind of take away from the realism

of the game, but it's not really supposed

to be realistic. It's just supposed to be

like tongue-in-cheek action game based

off events in my life where you machine

gun everyone.

Maybe I'll change the enemies into

animals.

Big scary bears.

But that seems kind of cruel as well,

just gunning down a bunch of innocent

bears in the woods.

I'd like a way to get rid of the weapon so

you could hide the weapon, put it away.

Maybe the

ultimate weapon, baby Daniels. Instead of

a gun, you could just use your babies as

weapons.

Make them zombies. Yeah, it could be a

zombie apocalypse, but then it

doesn't make sense. Why is there a zombie

apocalypse in England and then I go to

Japan and everything's fine there?

Or there could be zombies in, in Japan.

You get— oh, you get to Japan, everyone's

a zombie. You have to kill them all. And

maybe it's a dream, maybe it's not a

dream, maybe like sleepwalking. And in

Daniel's reality, everyone's a zombie and

he has to gun them all down. But in actual

fact, in actual reality, he's just gone

crazy and he's killing innocent people.

So in Daniel's mind, he's like, oh,

everyone's zombies, I've got to stop them

and save the world.

But actually he's like a psycho killing

innocent people.

In Daniel's mind, he is the hero, when in

reality he is the monster.

No, I want to make it more realistic, I

think. So you arrive in Japan, you're in

the guest house. You gotta make friends.

Oh, why don't I just make it more like

that? Less shooting and killing,

blowing stuff up. More kind

of like— what game would it be like?

So then you arrive in Japan and then

you're in the guest house and then

there'll be— I'll make different

characters in the guest house that kind of

just walk up and down doing things. And

then you got to talk to them and try and

become friends. And then I'll give— oh, I

could definitely do that. I could do like

multiple option responses. That'll be so

easy to implement now that I know how to

do buttons and like a computer system.

The dialogue multiple choice thing would

basically just be the same as the computer

And then maybe making friends with certain

people at the guest house will, will get

you access to different girls through

those friends. So they could be like a,

a club— club-going clubber who loves going

to clubs, and then you make friends with

him, he'll take you to the club where

you'll meet You'll meet Roxanne

in the club and then she'll be a potential

love interest. And then there'll be like a

nerdy guy at the guest house who's into

anime and stuff. And then you could try

and befriend him. And then there'll be

multiple, there'll be dialogue. And then,

oh, that'd be so good. I can make a global

variable called friendship relationship

status, like in The Sims. And then. It

will start off at 0, and then at 50 you'll

become friends. But then if you keep

choosing the wrong answers, it will go

down to like -50, and then he'll hate you.

At -50, he just won't want to talk to you

anymore. But then at +50, he'll be a

friend, and then he'll start inviting you

to do stuff with him. That's gonna take

so much work.

I'd have to have different global

variables for each character and then

multiple dialogue options.

So it would be like you go up to the anime

lover and then the first one would be,

hello, how are you? My name's Daniel. And

then you start talking about interests,

and then if you put— if you choose I hate

anime, then that'll make you lose a load

of points. So you put I love anime. Then

it will give you a load of relationship

points with him.

And then there could be like a muscular

Chad and he loves going to the gym, and

then if you be friends with him, he'll

take you to the gym with him and you go

drinking and stuff and you can get ripped.

It's quite a good idea. Well, what was

that? She just had like a sonic boom.

What? Sometimes she gets glitched into the

ground and then she just takes off like a

rocket. Whoa, did you see that?

It's when she gets stuck on the top.

That's so funny. It's funny

finding the bugs. Like, this is a bug as

well. When she gets stuck on the spring,

it keeps making the spring sound.

Can make a trampoline.

So this is the computer,

and this is what controls when

you click the computer what happens. When

this is saying that if the mouse button is

over the hitbox of the computer, then it

will change the color, and then when you

it will do this. It'll make that click

sound, and then it will create all the

This is the code.

Yeah, yeah, it's not really that

difficult. So when you want to click on

the computer and you want to make a button

appear, you do instance create layer, and

then you put the coordinates where it

appears. So I've made it so these buttons

appear at +80 on the x-axis and

-550 on the y-axis of the player, so it

always appears on the right-hand side and

stays there. And then you

put the layer that it spawns on, and then

OShopping2 is the computer screen,

and then you've got the different buttons

that pop up as well.

And I made it so you can only click on the

computer if the character is within 140

pixels.

Yeah, so this is the if statement.

So basically it means if

all of these parameters are met, then it

executes this. So if the mouse

is on top of— if the mouse— if

mouseX is on top of the box

of where the computer is, within left and

within right, and if the Y is within the

top and the bottom, so if it's within,

then it would change the

No, no, this will change to image index 0,

which is the black one. Otherwise it will

change to the other one, which is the

So if the mouse is over it and the

character is within 120 pixels of the

computer and the character is touching the

floor, because without this bit here,

look what kept happening. If I get rid of

it, you could click on the computer when

you were jumping and then the whole

computer would jumble up. Look,

see, it all moves with him, which was

weird, and then all of it gets messed up.

So to stop that from happening, I put this

code in so you can only click on it when

you're standing firmly on the ground.

So look, you can't click on it when he's

jumping. Now you've got to be on the

ground, and then it doesn't do that weird

thing. So it's just like trying to solve

different problems that come up.

And then I made it so the character loses

control when you've clicked it.

Otherwise you could move the character

around whilst the computer screen was

open. I thought that was a bit weird. So

you lose the control of the character when

it's open, and then you regain control

when you close it. Down, then you can move

again. Quite clever.

And then look at this, when you've got the

weapon, he puts the weapon

away when you click on the computer. See,

it's gone now, because before he was

aiming the weapon at the buttons you were

trying to press, which I thought was a bit

I'm out of bullets. I died.

Yeah, so that's my game so far.

Let me know what you think.

Where do I find solutions to the problems?

I come up with it myself because I'm so

clever.

You have to identify the problem and then

think, how can you get rid of the problem?

And then figure out what kind of code

you're going to use.

So the other— so the problem when I had

the gun out was that he kept shooting

bullets when I clicked on the buttons on

the computer. I needed to get

him to stop shooting when I clicked on the

computer. So I just— what did I do?

I think I destroyed— oh

no,

I just set the layer that the gun is on to

invisible when you click on it, so the gun

disappears.

And then I made it so that the gun layer

needs to be visible in order to shoot a

bullet. So you can see here, and this is

the gun code for the gun, when you click

the left mouse button— where

I can't find it now.

Sometimes I forget how I've done stuff

because I did it such a long time ago.

Oh, here it is. So this is what happens

when you click left mouse button. It will

reduce your ammo by 1, play the shooting

sound, and then it will create a bullet at

a of 25. But in order to do that,

you need more than one— need more than 0

ammo, and you need to have control of the

player. Oh, I also

made a global variable called don't shoot.

Oh yeah, that's how I did it. I think I

made it so when you click on the computer,

it sets the don't shoot variable to false.

False, but you need it to be true, and the

only way you can get it to true is by not

clicking on the computer or something like

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how I did it.

So if you hover the mouse over the

computer, it will set it to the green

image, and it'll also set the don't shoot

variable to false, which means you can't

shoot anymore. And then if you take it

away, it'll go back to true, then you can

shoot again. I thought that's quite a

clever way of fixing that problem.

Anyway, enough about my games. People are

getting bored.