Documentation

Game Maker includes documentation in PDF format. Here you find the same document in some other formats:

Game Maker documentation as pdf

Game Maker documentation as Word document

Game Maker documentation as html

Japanese version

Please find below a Japanese translation of the documentation of version 4.0 of Game Maker made by Alberto Palacios Pawlovsky. (As I cannot read Japanese I did not verify the contents.)

Japanese translation of the Game Maker documentation as Word document.

Russian version

Please find below a Russian translation of the help files of version 4.0 of Game Maker in the form of html pages. made by Igor Kniazev. (As I cannot read Russian I did not verify the contents.)

Russian translation of the Game Maker help as html.

Tutorials

To learn more about the creation of particular types of games I plan to create a number of short tutorials. These tutorials require version 4.2 or later of Game Maker.

	Tutorial 1: Platform Games (zip file, 180 KB) This tutorial shows you how to create a simple platform game. It treats such aspects as how to make a character jump and land, how to crush monsters when the character jumps on top of them, and how to use tiled backgrounds for creating appealing graphics. Updated to Game Maker 4.2 Intermediate
	Tutorial 2: Maze Games (zip file, 1 MB) This tutorial shows you how to create a simple maze game. It treats such aspects as how to make a character move from cell to cell, how to display the score and the lives, how to create monsters, and how to add all sorts of special features like movable blocks. Beginner
	Tutorial 3: Multiplayer Games (zip file, 190 KB) This tutorial shows you how to create a multiplayer game. It shows how to set up a connection, how to createw game sessions and how to communicate between the games. Two examples are given: a two-player pong game and a simple chat program. This is an advanced tutorial and requires some coding experience in GML. It requires version 4.1 of Game Maker. Advanced
	Tutorial 4: Isometric Games (zip file, 300 KB) This tutorial shows you how to create an isometric maze game, that is, a game that give the impression of being 3D by viewing the world under a 45 degree angle. It shows that Game Maker is more powerful than you might think and can actually create 3D looking games. It requires version 4.1 of Game Maker. Intermediate

Because people asked for it, you can download two demoprograms about motion here. Later I will create a tutorial on motion.

Tutorials by others

There are also other people writing tutorials on how to work with Game Maker. These can be found here.

Beginners guide to Game Maker programming by Carl Gustafsson (560 Kb)

Good GML Programming by Allen Cheung (25 Kb)