I'm presenting tonight at the Microsoft Store in Seattle on building your first game with YoYo GameMaker. YoYo was generous enough to provide GameMaker licenses for all attendees! We're going to be going through the first game tutorial with some slight tweaks to make it work better on Windows 8. If time permits, we'll look at one more game tutorial - a scrolling shooter.

Attached you'll find the PDF files that we'll be walking through this evening. I hope you get some skills and inspiration to make your first game! 

GameMakerTutorial_FirstGame.pdf (466.59 kb)

GameMakerTutorial_ScrollingShooter.pdf (791.98 kb)

FirstGameAssets.zip (797.52 kb)

ScrollingShooterAssets.zip (854.63 kb)

I decided to put together a reference post for when you're looking for stock photos, clipart, audio, music, or video. I will update this post as I am made aware of new sources.

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Thanks to everyone that showed up to last Friday's session on JavaScript game development in Windows 8. I really appreciated the information and demonstration that Jake and Sam presented. I hope it was as helpful for you too.

I said I'd post the sample code that they used, and here it is. You will need to go to impactjs.com and purchase the library if you'd like to use this, but if you're actually making games then it's a small cost to consider.

Enjoy!

BlockMover.zip (346.49 kb)