GameMaker: Studio 100 Programming Challenges

© Ben Tyers 2017

Ben Tyers, GameMaker: Studio 100 Programming Challenges, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2644-5_61

61. Particle Trail Effect

Ben Tyers¹ 

(1)Worthing, West Sussex, UK

Challenge Outline To create a particle trail when an object moves.	Level 1 Beginner 40 Minutes Medium 20 Minutes Advanced 10 Minutes
Additional Challenge Create a stream of particles in the opposite direction of object movement.	Points In Time 10 Additional 20

Notes on Approaching This Challenge

This can be done using either objects or a particle system. An extra 10 points for using the particle system.

Guide

You can make an instance move to the mouse position with:

x=mouse_x;y=mouse_y; ...