Starting an Ultimate Game Maker Guide

I notice that no matter what websites I go to about Game Maker Tutorial, I either find separate parts to tutorials or unfinished websites. Also, these tutorials are not progressive and usually assume you know quite a bit. To overcome these limiting factors to learning about Game Maker, (Especially for new people) I am working on a guide that will cover everything from the drag and drop all the way through 3D coding. I will need help near the end because I do not know much about C++ and writing DLLs in Game Maker. Until I get more in-depth information about that, I will be sticking to just showing how to add DLLs into Game Maker, the basic structure to them, and listing a few common DLLs. I will be able to explain Libraries and Extension Packages though, as those aren’t too bad.

So far I have this for an index:
 
Unit 1: Drag and Drop
Getting Game Maker 2
Sprites, Objects, and Moving 2
X and Y Positions
Using the Keyboard and Mouse
Collisions
Score, Lives, and Health
Direction, Speed, and Gravity
Rooms and Views
Persistence
Animations
Draw Event
Variables
Saving and Loading
Checks and Blocks
Parents and Masks
Paths and Timelines
Unit 2: Game Maker Language
Variables and Strings
Object Movement
Drawing Codes
Image Variables
Mathematical Functions
If statements
Keyboard and Mouse Controls
Enemy AI
Rooms and Views
Dialogs and Menus
Scripts and Arguments
Saving and Loading Files
Loading Files Externally
Effects
Particles
Mplay functions
3D Games and Views
Unit 3: Extending Game Maker
Extension Packages
Libraries
DLLs
Continuing Your Game Making Hobby

If I have forgotten a topic, I will eventually add to this list to make it more thorough.

Second football game last night, we lost again so we have a 0/2 win/loss record now.  The band was more active than the first game though and we did fine in cheering them on.

Finished 2001 A Space Odyssey, since I already read the 2010 odyssey two book, I see how the two stories connect now.

I’ve also started playing Shaiya Online. It is a pretty decent game, I am level 16 at the moment and I like it. I like it better than fiesta because they seem to have more skills altogether and the game is more explorable and keeps you wanting more because you get cool skills. Priests aren’t stuck with just lame heals like Fiesta’s Clerics, they actually get magic and help out with killing. It seems to keep me more “awake” than Fiesta.

The Big Gap

This blog may become another useless blog that starts off as active and dulls down to nothing. I know I said I’d go longer, but as you obviously can see I am literally posting monthly. So what’s been happening recently?

First, Z-Gamers has developed in the last few weeks. We now have three other members which help contibute. We also have some new games come this time around. We have Button Hero 2, some updates to Fighter’s field and Z-Tower Defense, and the start of Virus Attack and MegaLoManium.

School is starting again, so I don’t have much time to do anything at home and on the computer anymore. I haven’t been doing much on Fiesta either.

I’m only level 58. I could be level 60, but I don’t have any time to do anything, and I put Game Maker over Fiesta often.

It seems like I am liking Game Maker too much, but we’ll see what happens. Hopefully you’ll still hear from me on occasion.

Also, I am loving the Space Odyssey books. I just picked this book off of my school’s library shelf, started reading it, and got hooked. Reading 2001 A Space Odyssey now, but read 2010 odyssey two already.