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Local copy of Game Maker 6.1 (3.6 MB)
Game Maker 6 created Mark Overmars is an excellent shareware
program that makes it easy to create your own PC games.
There are many websites with examples and tutorials online. The best place to
start is by visiting the Game
Maker website.
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1945v3.gm6 139. KB
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My version of the 1945 Example. Includes emeny subs, shooting sidewase & backwards & and extra lives. Use <Alt> & <Ctrl> for sideways & backwards shooting.
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keep-left.gm6 133
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A Keep Left version of Street Racing |
lem.gm6 101 KB
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A combination of Lunar Lander (LEM), & Maze game. Keys: <R> Restart Level |
February 9, 2005 |
As above with more levels & features. Still a work in progress. |
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February 14, 2005
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Demonstrates how to use the Views feature of gamemaker which allows rooms to scroll and pan to follow a moving object. This technique is often used in platform games.
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February 17, 2005 shooter.gm6 55 KB
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Based on: Triple07 by Zac B year 6 2003 From The Haileybury College, Edrington - Computer Club Keys Player 1: Up Player 2: A |
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February 18, 2005 shooter11.gm6 76 KB
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Based on: Triple07 by Zac B year 6 2003 From The Haileybury College, Edrington - Computer Club Now with shields and multiple bullets. Person 1
Person 2
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shooter15.gm6 97 KB
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As above but with dual health. Demonstrates how to draw 2 independent health bars. Based on code by Dayjo Aspen www.dayjoaspen.com
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My collection of sprites 
February 21, 2005
Welcome to DAYJOASPEN.COM please feel free to look around and enjoy the resources available, If you find a broken link or some other sort of error and would like to report it, just click the Contact link on the left hand side, or email me at mail @ dayjoaspen.com http://www.dayjoaspen.com/
Welcome to Game Maker Games, a site devoted to Game Maker, the superlative game creation program by Mark Overmars (you can download Game Maker here).
This is the home of the Monster Game Archive, which we try to make the most complete listing of Game Maker creations available. And we have many other things here as well.
So stay a while...stay forever >:)! http://www.gamemakergames.com/
The incredible machine is a game I have created for the first official GM competitition. The goal was to make a game with a limited set of given resources without the possibility to add new resources to the game. This game won the 6th place. This game is available as opensource and executable. http://games.simondonkers.com/index.php?mode=games
Welcome to my PhD homepage, which contains information about myself and my research into the educational potential of computer games. However, the main body of this site is devoted to providing free information and resources for teaching children how to make computer games in clubs and schools. http://www.gamelearning.net/
The following games were created by students of Haileybury College, Edrington campus, Berwick Victoria Australia. They were created with Gamemaker 5.0 http://edrington.haileybury.vic.edu.au/computerclub/computerclub/index.html
These examples have been written to help others learn how to do various things with GameMaker. Most of these were written to answer one or more questions posted in the GameMaker forums. These may not be the best way to do what they are doing, but they might help you. Feel free to make use of anything you find here in your own games.
http://www.ladimaco.com/GameMaker/examples.html
Game Maker has been written to make it easier for people to design and make their own computer games. Though you may not be able to make games like Quake (they take teams of programmers years to make), you can still make games that are lots of fun to play. Plenty of people love to play Tetris, Pacman and other simple platform, puzzle or shooting games. These are the style of game that you will be able to make using Game Maker
http://www.newtown.tased.edu.au/computingweb/gamemaker/default.aspx
An example is a bare-bones program, containing just enough code or actions to get the desired effect. You are expected (read: I made it for you to...) to study the code, or if you don't feel like studying, to copy it or build your game from the example.
http://erikw.50free.org/site.php?goto=14
Wikipedia Game Maker Page
http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/gamemaker/default.htm
link added June 9, 2006
The
inaugural Australian Game Programming in Schools Conference was held on
Friday Sep 9, 2005, at Swinburne University. This conference explored the the
learning theory underpinning game programming in schools. Speakers from around
Australia shared best practice in using game programming as a relevant, authentic
and highly motivating task which develops higher order cognitive and metacognitive
skills.
http://www.newtown.tased.edu.au/gamelearning/conference_sep05.htm
Free Game Maker Educational
Resources
http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/g/int.htm
link added October 10, 2005
Something is making
me do it: A reflection on 3.5 years of teaching with Game Maker
- presentation to Game Programming in Schools Conference
- Melbourne, Friday September 9th 2005
http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/a/something.htm
Game Making: Have fun while
you learn
http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/g/ad.htm
Haileybury College, Edrington - Computer Club
Information
for teachers
Literature on school improvement is full of exhortations to make the content of instruction "relevant." …….. But if one does belong to a culture in which video games are important, transforming oneself from a consumer to a producer of games may well be an even more powerful way for some children to find importance in what they are doing.
Preface by Seymour Papert to Minds in Play by Yasmin Kafai
Computer Club is an activity held by Haileybury College, Edrington, Berwick, Victoria Australia. It rises from our commitment to "relevant" self directed learning. The games are the work of our students, they set their own goals, they are very much their creations.
They are published here because we value their efforts. We encourage dialogue with other schools who recognise the value of game programming as a learning tool. Your comments and questions are welcome, email tforster <at> haileybury.vic.edu.au
Over the past years Game Maker is being used more and more for educational purposes, as a vehicle to teach students about programming, technology, and of course game design itself. The activities range from technology summer camps (see for example the Childrens Technology Workshop) and elementary schools, to highschools and universities (for example the course on Game design at Utrecht University). On this page you find information and links that are useful for educators. If you created your own material based on Game Maker and want to share it, or want to express your opinion about this topic, please send a mail to gamemaker @ wanadoo.nl.
Free Game Maker Educational Resources
The main current purpose of this website is to distribute free Game Maker educational resources, such as hands on tutorials, course outlines and a variety of worksheets.
This website has been created by Bill Kerr and is maintained at the Woodville High School extranet.
http://intranet.woodvillehs.sa.edu.au/kerrbi/g/int.htm
Carl Gustafsson's Game Maker Pages
Welcome to my Game Maker Pages. These pages are devoted to the games creation tool Game Maker by Mark Overmars. Game Maker is freeware, and I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in creating their own computer games on the standard PC.
http://hem.passagen.se/birchdale/carl/
These examples will run on Game Maker version 5.x and version 6.x, although some of the text functions may not display perfectly with v6.x
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rob.goldfish/examples.htm
by Simon Donkers
gmmentor@simondonkers.com
Many people complain about the fact that Game Maker is very slow. However speed can differ greatly from your programming technique. Many things can be performed much more efficiently. This varies from using local instead of global variables but also things like which objects has a collision event.
http://gamemaker.simondonkers.com/index.php?mode=view&fileid=40
Game Maker Community Lo-Fi version
Game Maker Community Hi-Fi version
This forum is meant for discussions about this community. You can also put announcements of web sites or chat groups devoted to Game Maker in the releveant subforum here. Make sure that you READ these rules prior to posting. Also, the General GMC Rules apply here too.
http://forums.gamemaker.nl/index.php?showforum=3
There are a number of forums related to teaching game design in schools.
International game making teacher's forum
Teacher's Forum:
This forum has been specifically created for class teachers, parents and educators interested in running game making activities. http://www.gamelearning.net/teachers
Australian Game Maker teacher's forum
http://lyris.education.tas.gov.au:8080/read/?forum=gamemaker
http://www.echthros.com/html/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=15
Teacher's Forum making computer games with children
APA citation:
Russell, R. (2006, June 09, 05:22 pm). Game Maker 6.
Retrieved February 10, 2010, from http://velorum.ballarat.edu.au/~rrussell/tutorials/gamemaker/index.php
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