GameMaker: Studio For Dummies

Chapter 3

Creating Events

In This Chapter

Creating and destroying Objects

Setting Alarms

Using Steps

Making Instances collide

Using keyboard and mouse controls

Drawing to the screen

Enhancing your game with other Events

In this chapter, I cover each of the Events you can use within GameMaker: Studio. If you think of Objects, Events, and Actions in terms of English grammar, then the Objects are the subjects, the Events are the object (so to speak, just work with me here), and the Actions are the verbs. In that sense, the Objects are the things in the game (such as the player’s plane), the Events are what is acted upon (such as creating the plane), and the Actions make the magic happen (such as making the plane fly).

How to Add an Event to an Object

There are 12 different Events that ...