Game Maker Tutorial: Top Down Shooter

A tutorial about how to make a simple top down shooter in game maker. I made this mainly because of a request from HZSOLTI9, though there were others who wanted a tutorial as well. Unfortunately, I couldn't show how I did a lot of the stuff in some of my top down shooters, but hopefully this helps some people anyway. I coul possibly make more tutorials on this, for things like different enemies and weapons.

I think I might have gone a bit too fast with this tutorial, and I don't think I explained things as well as I did in my other one. Though, that is somewhat understandable considering this is a bit more complex. Tell me what you think...

I would like to have some feedback on this tutorial. Was it too simple or too complex? Did it explain enough or did it explain too much? Should I do tutorials in drag and drop or GML? I want to know what people think, so I can hopefully improve if I make another one in the future.

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• down
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• third
• person
• shooter
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• fps
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• guide
• how
• to
• make
• simple
• guns
• shooting
• enemy
• AI
• ammo
• health

[yourfacemeetsmyfist]

can you make a tut on how to make enemies follow you through obstacles at certain range? Thanks!

[MegaUltraSuperDude]

@yourfacemeetsmyfist I could make a tutorial, but I don't understand what exactly you want the enemies to do. Could you elaborate a bit?

[rickchardet01]

please help me!

I have gamemaker lite, and my shot only goes right!

Thats all, great tutorial btw.

[MegaUltraSuperDude]

@rickchardet01 Make sure this is in the Global Left Mouse event:

if canshoot<0{ canshoot=5 shot=instance_create(x,y,obj_s­hot) shot.direction=image_index shot.image_index=image_index shot.speed=16

}

If all of that is in there the shot should move properly.

[MrTed334]

what dose the shot. thing do

[MegaUltraSuperDude]

@MrTed334 Essentially, using "shot." in front of things allows other objects to change the variables of a shot object. Normally "direction=image_angle" in the player object would make the player's direction become the player's image_angle, but when you change it to "shot.direction=image_angle" now the *shot's* direction becomes the player's image_angle.

Sorry, that's the simplest way I can think of explaining it.

[yourfacemeetsmyfist]

@MegaUltraSuperDude

First of all, thanks for responding

i mean, like if the enemy as a visual on you it follows you and avoids obstacles, how to make a boss, and cutsenes? Also how to make certan things happens when you step on a block or sometin. thanks, and if its too much, nevermind then :)

[MegaUltraSuperDude]

@THEovstis Sure, I could make a drag and drop version. It might be a bit tricky since I haven't used drag and drop in ages, but I'll get started on it soon.

[THEovstis]

can you make this as an drag and drop tutorial ??? :D

[ObasStan]

@MegaUltraSuperDude Never mind ERROR in action number 1

of Collision Event with object health object

for object object0: