GameMaker: Studio 100 Programming Challenges

A unique GameMaker: Studio challenges book on the book marketPerfect impulse buy for Barnes & Noble and Amazon customersAlso could be used by students in intermediate and advanced game programming courses using GameMaker (same students who have learned from and used The Apress best seller, The Game Maker's Apprentice.

Tests your GameMaker skills with a series of graded challenges A one of a kind GameMaker book that raises the bar on your coding ability Helps make you a complete game developer using GameMaker: Studio, language and other tools

Autorentext
Ben Tyers is an expert GameMaker: Studio user, developer, coder, expert and IT trainer. He has authored a number of small books on GameMaker for game application developers and runs a popular GameMaker resources web site.

Inhalt
1 Maths Bar Graph.- 2 Clickable & Moveable Object.- 3 Room Fade In & Out Transition.- 4 Typewriter Text Effect.- 5 Audio Volume Change Based On Distance.- 6 Move Object To Position Using Path 11.- 7 Make The Screen Shake 13- 8 Create Snow Effect.- 9 Password Easter Egg.- 10 Follow Two Objects In View.- 11 High / Low Number Game.- 12 Calculate Average Position Of Two Clicks.- 13 Retrieve Text File Web From & Save Locally.- 14 Shuffle Pack Of Playing Cards & Deal.- 15 Reverse Sentence Order.- 16 Rotate & Move Object To Mouse Position.- 17 Firework Display Using Effects.- 18 Random Sentence Generator.- 19 Pop Up RPG Style Text Box.- 20 Room Wrapping.- 21 Sprite Shadow.- 22 Make A Jukebox Player For 4 Songs.- 23 Scrolling Credits.- 24 Random Dice Roller.- 25 Substitution Cipher.- 26 Save Highscore To INI.- 27 Spawn Point.- 28Dictionary Check.- 29 Draw Text With Shadow.- 30 Classic Brick & Ball Game Remake.- 31 Fire Projectile.- 32 World Clock.- 33 Text Based Quiz.- 34 On Screen Keyboard.- 35 Create A Driveable Tank That Leaves Tyre Tracks.- 36 Parallax Background.- 37 Click The Ghost.- 38 Particle Fire Effect.- 39 Bubble Sort.- 40 Unlockable Levels Select Screen.- 41 Moon Lander AI.- 42 Dodge The Barrels.- 43 Convert Celsius To Fahrenheit.- 44 Find Path To Position Avoiding Objects.- 45 Calculate BMI.- 46 Shuffle Pack Of Playing Cards & Save To Text.- 47 10 Green Bottles.- 48 English To Morse Code.- 49 Blitz Game Remake.- 50 Mini Golf Game Remake.- 51 Rock, Paper, Scissors Game Remake.- 52 Health Based On Distance.- 53 Tank Trax Game Remake.- 54 Two Separate Views.- 55 Word Typing Game.- 56 Destructible Terrain.- 57 Duck Hunt Game Remake.- 58 Keep Player In View.- 59 Fizz Buzz.- 60 Calculate Numbers.- 61 Particle Trail Effect.- 62 Draw Rectangle and Calculate Area & Perimeter.- 63 Random Terrain Generation.- 64 Drop The Coin (arcade style).- 65 Calculate the Nth Result Of Fibonacci Sequence.- 66 Distance From Object To Mouse.- 67 Convert Decimal To Binary, Oct, Hex & Roman.- 68 Text In X Box.- 69 Frogger Game Remake.- 70 Take a Screen Shot.- 71 Slowly Move Direction.- 72 Pong Style Game Remake.- 73 Shooting Gallery.- 74 How Many Of Each Letter.- 75 Torpedo Game Remake.- 76 One Hundred Random Numbers.- 77 Coin Flip.- 78 Predict Path Of An Object.- 79 Dynamic Button.- 80 Sokoban Game Remake.- 81 Top Down Football.- 82 Top Down Racing.- 83 Convert Numbers (in digits) To Words.- 84 Zelda Style Views.- 85 Convert Text File To eBook.- 86 Planets Database (INI).- 87 How Much Flour.- 88 Rotating Mini Map.- 89 Selectable Troops.- 90 Pipes.- 91 Arcade Style Horse Race Game.- 92 Road Builder.- 93 Chess Board Representation.- 94 1942 Game Remake.- 95 Create A Virtual ATM (bank teller).- 96 Moon Lander Game Remake.- 97 Pixelate An Image.- 98 Miner.- 99 Follow Player (Ghost).- 100 Multiplication Table.- Appendix A: Points Chart.