Shameless Self Promotion (Part n): Book reviewing at El Reg
Here’s a quick review of The Game Maker’s Apprentice for The Register:
Subtitled “Game Development for Beginners”, The Game Maker’s Apprentice is just that, a guide to developing your own games using the free Game Maker games development software (available for download here, if you don’t buy the book).
Everything you need to build the games described in the book is on its companion CD, including the Game Maker software and all the images and sounds needed, as well as the final versions of the example games, ready for you to extend with your own levels and actions. There’s plenty of installation help in the book, with the first section a quick introduction to Game Maker.
Game Maker is a visual development tool, with drag and drop visual programming for most game elements, and a GML language to extend object actions. Perhaps best thought of as an OO tool for creating games, it uses events and actions to tie objects together.
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