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The Game Makers Apprentice shows you how to create nine exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool. This book covers a range of genres, including action, adventure, and puzzle games complete with professional quality sound effects and visuals. It discusses game design theory and features practical examples of how this can be applied to making games that are more fun to play. Game Maker allows games to be created using a simple drag-and-drop interface, so you don’t need to have any prior coding experience. It includes an optional programming language for adding advanced features to your games, when you feel ready to do so. You can obtain more information by visiting book.gamemaker.nl. The authors include the creator of the Game Maker tool and a former professional game programmer, so you’ll glean understanding from their expertise. The book also includes a DVD containing Game Maker software and all of the game projects that are created in the book—plus a host of professional-quality graphics and sound effects that you can use in your own games. If the book has a mention of a CD,please look for its contents in extras.springer.com . The link is included in the copyright page of the book. The Game Makers Apprentice shows you how to create nine exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool. This book covers a range of genres, including action, adventure, and puzzle games complete with professional quality sound effects and visuals. It discusses game design theory and features practical examples of how this can be applied to developing games that are more fun to play. Game Maker allows games to be created using a simple drag-and-drop interface, so you dont need to have any prior coding experience. It includes an optional programming language for adding advanced features to your games, when you feel ready to do so. You can obtain more information by visiting book.gamemaker.nl. The authors include the creator of the Game Maker tool and a former professional game programmer, so youll glean understanding from their expertise. The book also includes supplementary materials (on Apress.com) containing Game Maker software and all of the game projects that are created in the bookplus a host of professional-quality graphics and sound effects that you can use in your own games. The Game Maker’s Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 PART 1 Getting Started......Page 24 CHAPTER 1 Welcome to Game Maker......Page 26 CHAPTER 2 Your First Game: Devilishly Easy......Page 32 PART 2 Action Games......Page 62 CHAPTER 3 More Actions: A Galaxy of Possibilities......Page 64 CHAPTER 4 Target the Player: It’s Fun Being Squished......Page 88 CHAPTER 5 Game Design: Interactive Challenges......Page 108 PART 3 Level Design......Page 122 CHAPTER 6 Inheriting Events: Mother of Pearl......Page 124 CHAPTER 7 Maze Games: More Cute Things in Peril......Page 150 CHAPTER 8 Game Design: Levels and Features......Page 172 PART 4 Multiplayer Games......Page 190 CHAPTER 9 Cooperative Games: Flying Planes......Page 192 CHAPTER 10 Competitive Games: Playing Fair with Tanks......Page 214 CHAPTER 11 Game Design: Balance in Multiplayer Games......Page 234 PART 5 Enemies and Intelligence......Page 246 CHAPTER 12 GML: Become a Programmer......Page 248 CHAPTER 13 Clever Computers: Playing Tic-Tac-Toe......Page 268 CHAPTER 14 Intelligent Behavior: Animating the Dead......Page 282 CHAPTER 15 Final Words......Page 314 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 320 INDEX......Page 322 A guide to creating computer games covers such topics as graphics, sound effects, and music.