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S. M. CossuGame Development with GameMaker Studio 2https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5010-5_2

2. Hello, World!

Sebastiano M. Cossu1 
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London, UK
 

Welcome, fellow developers! This is the very beginning of our journey into game development!

There is a tradition, in developers’ culture. Every time you’re going to learn a new language, framework, or library, you start with a program that just displays the message “Hello, World!”

This tradition started in the 1960s, during the writing of the manual of BCPL programming language by Prof. Brian Kernighan who wrote a program that displayed the string “hello, world” to show how I/O worked in BCPL. This example program was later used by Kernighan in his own tutorial to the C programming ...

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