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| Foreword | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| About the Technical Reviewer | |
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| About the Illustrator | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Welcome to Game Maker | |
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| Installing the Software | |
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| Registration | |
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| The Global User Interface | |
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| Running a Game | |
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| How to Get More Information | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Your First Game: Devilishly Easy | |
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| Designing the Game: Evil Clutches | |
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| Sprites | |
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| Objects | |
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| The Boss Object | |
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| Events and Actions | |
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| The Dragon Object | |
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| Rooms | |
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| Save and Run | |
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| Instances and Objects | |
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| Demons, Baby Dragons, and Fireballs | |
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| The Fireball Object | |
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| The Demon Object | |
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| Summoning Demons | |
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| The Baby Dragon Object | |
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| Backgrounds and Sounds | |
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| A Background Image | |
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| Background Music | |
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| Sound Effects | |
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| Congratulations | |
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| Action Games | |
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| More Actions: A Galaxy of Possibilities | |
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| Designing the Game: Galactic Mail | |
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| Sprites and Sounds | |
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| Moons and Asteroids | |
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| Flying Around | |
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| Winning and Losing | |
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| An Explosion | |
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| Scores | |
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| Levels | |
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| Finishing Touches | |
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| A Title Screen | |
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| Winning the Game | |
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| Adding Some Visual Variety | |
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| Help Information | |
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| Congratulations | |
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| Target the Player: It's Fun Being Squished | |
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| Designing the Game: Lazarus | |
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| An Animated Character | |
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| A Test Environment | |
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| Falling Boxes | |
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| Finishing Touches | |
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| No Way Out! | |
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| Adding a Goal | |
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| Starting a Level | |
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| Sounds, Backgrounds, and Help | |
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| Levels | |
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| Congratulations | |
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| Game Design: Interactive Challenges | |
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| What Makes a Good Game? | |
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| Game Mechanics | |
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| Interactive Challenges | |
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| Game Genres | |
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| Challenges | |
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| Difficulty | |
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| Goals | |
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| Rewards | |
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| Subgoals | |
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| Interactivity | |
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| Choices and Control | |
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| Control Overload! | |
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| Unfair Punishment | |
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| Audio Feedback | |
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| Summary | |
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| Level Design | |
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| Inheriting Events: Mother of Pearl | |
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| Designing the Game: Super Rainbow Reef | |
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| A Game Framework | |
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| The Front-End | |
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| The Completion Screen | |
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| Bouncing Starfish | |
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| Biglegs | |
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| Parent Power | |
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| Lives | |
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| Blocks | |
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| Normal Blocks | |
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| Solid Blocks | |
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| Special Blocks | |
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| Polishing the Game | |
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| Sound Effects | |
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| Saving Games and Quitting | |
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| A Slower Start | |
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| Creating the Levels | |
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| Congratulations | |
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| Maze Games: More Cute Things in Peril | |
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| Designing the Game: Koalabr8 | |
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| The Basic Maze | |
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| The Game Framework | |
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| A Moving Character | |
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| Save the Koala | |
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| Creating Hazards | |
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| Tiles | |
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| Adding Additional Hazards | |
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| Locks and Switches | |
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| A Detonator | |
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| Rocks | |
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| Finishing the Game | |
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| Congratulations | |
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| Game Design: Levels and Features | |
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| Selecting Features | |
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| Pie in the Sky | |
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| Do You Have That in Blue? | |
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| Starting an Arms Race | |
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| One-Trick Ponies | |
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| Emerging with More Than You Expected | |
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| Designing Levels | |
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| The Game Maker's Apprentice | |
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| Learning Curves | |
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| Difficulty Curves | |
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| Saving the Day | |
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| Applying It All | |
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| Features | |
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| Emerging Springs | |
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| Training Missions | |
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| Dividing Levels | |
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| Summary | |
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| Multiplayer Games | |
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| Cooperative Games: Flying Planes | |
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| Designing the Game: Wingman Sam | |
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| Variables and Properties | |
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| The Illusion of Motion | |
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| Flying Planes | |
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| Enemies and Weapons | |
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| Dealing with Damage | |
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| Time Lines | |
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| More Enemies | |
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| End Boss | |
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| Finishing Touches | |
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| Congratulations | |
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| Competitive Games: Playing Fair with Tanks | |
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| Designing the Game: Tank War | |
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| Playing with Tanks | |
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| Firing Shells | |
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| Secondary Weapons | |
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| Views | |
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| Congratulations | |
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| Game Design: Balance in Multiplayer Games | |
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| Competition and Cooperation | |
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| Independent Competition | |
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| Dependent Competition | |
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| Independent Cooperation | |
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| Dependent Cooperation | |
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| Mix and Match | |
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| Balanced Beginnings | |
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| Equivalent Characters | |
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| Balancing Differences | |
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| Balanced Choice | |
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| Weighting Choices | |
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| Cyclic Relationships | |
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| Balanced Computer Opponents | |
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| Artificial Stupidity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enemies and Intelligence | |
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| GML: Become a Programmer | |
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| Hello World | |
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| Variables | |
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| Functions | |
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| Conditional Statements | |
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| Repeating Things | |
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| Arrays | |
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| Dealing with Other Instances | |
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| Scripts As Functions | |
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| Debugging Programs | |
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| Congratulations | |
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| Clever Computers: Playing Tic-Tac-Toe | |
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| Designing the Game: Tic-Tac-Toe | |
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| The Playing Field | |
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| Let the Computer Play | |
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| A Clever Computer Opponent | |
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| Adaptive Gameplay | |
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| Congratulations | |
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| Intelligent Behavior: Animating the Dead | |
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| Designing the Game: Pyramid Panic | |
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| The Basic Framework | |
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| Creating the Maze and the Explorer | |
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| Expanding Our Horizons | |
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| Reactive Behavior | |
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| Time for Treasure! | |
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| Movable Blocks | |
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| Rule-Based Behavior | |
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| Walking Around | |
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| Moving Toward the Explorer | |
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| Dealing with States | |
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| Scarabs | |
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| Let There Be Light | |
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| Looking to the Future | |
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| Final Words | |
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| Creating Resources | |
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| Artwork: The GIMP | |
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| Music: Anvil Studio | |
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| Sound Effects: Audacity | |
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| The Game Maker Community | |
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| Note to Teachers | |
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| Good Luck | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |