There are limitless ‘things-you-want-to-try-to-do’ in your games.  Here is a load of tasks that students commonly ask me how to do.  Many of these tasks use concepts taught in the course.  Others will introduce you to new concepts (that’s a good thing!). Feel free to send a request for a how-to that you are having trouble figuring out.

Visit  How-To  PlayList
YouTube GameMaker  How-To  PlayList

Project Files for How-To Videos
All the completed project files for each individual
‘How-To’ video can be downloaded from here:
How_To_Coded Projects Folder

Here are the names of some of the How-To’s you’ll find…

How to make Screen Shake
How to make Bomb Explode with Shrapnel
How to Fire Close to Player Location
How to make a Count Down Timer
How to Fire or Shoot Toward the Mouse
How to Splash Damage
How to make a Count Down Timer Bar
How to make Health Bar Follow Monster
How to Fire Toward Player
How to Fire Every Second with Alarms
How to Fire Every Second Using Counters
How to Fire Randomly (random times, directions)
How to make Cross Hairs Follow the Mouse
How to Change Player Sprites
How to make Health Bar Rectangle
How to Code Hit Points or Damage
How to Make Zombie Randomly Move Toward Player
How to Make Health Bar on Mouse Over
How to Make Player Move Toward Mouse
How to Control Fire Shooting Rate
How to Create a Player Health Bar
How to Make Object Move Randomly (around room)
How to Weapon Select with Ammo
How to Weapon Select with Ammo and Draw
How to do Weapon Selecting
How to Draw Inventory List to Screen 01
How to Draw Instance Variables (to screen)
How to Draw Global Variables (to screen)
How to Draw Text Aligned (horizontally and vertically)
How to Make Buttons with Roll Over Effect
How to Make Basic Buttons
How to Make View Screen Follow Two Players
How to Make View Screen Follow Single Player
How to Make Switches and Levers
How to Room Adding and Changing
How to Power Up Speed
How to Power Up Double Fire
How to Make Player Shields
How to Set Player Position When Switching Rooms
How to Make Player Invincible and Flashing
How to Make Pause Game Button Simple
How to Make Pause Game Button Advanced
How to Keys and Locks
How to Draw GUI with Views
How to Doors to Other Rooms
How to do Diagonal Movement
How to Check if Two Keys are Pressed at Same Time
How to Go Back To Last Room Visited
How to Fire From End of Gun (not center of gun)
How to Fire From End of Gun 02 (not center of gun)
How to Gun Aims at Mouse and Follows Player
How to Gun Over Heat and Cool Down 01
How to Gun Over Heat and Cool Down with Effects
How to Limit the Number of Enemies
How to Randomly Drop Items From Top (of screen)
How to Machine Gun Burst Fire
How to Make Points Floating Fading Spinning
How to Use Views and Drawing
How to Key Combo Special Moves
How to Points Multiplier and Streaks
How to Scroll Screen View with Mouse
How to Killing Spree and Streaks
How to Make Energy Bar with Smooth Change
How to Make Mini Map of Room or Level
How to do Charge up and Fire (hold and press to charge before firing)