My First 8 Hours Learning GameMaker (2024)

In this video, I go through my initial 8 hours of learning GameMaker, the new 2D engine I’m considering alongside Godot & Unreal 5. This was a very different experience from my time with Godot & GDScript and with C++.

Hi, and welcome to The Infinite Inkwell. I’m Lewis, and I’m on a storytelling adventure, exploring and experimenting with new ways to tell stories. My first storytelling escapade will be in the form of a video game.

You can watch me play games and, in the future, hopefully, some development and game art on stream over on Twitch (I will be doing it on YT too, but there are challenges from a Mac)

I'll also be posting updates on Instagram:

My Resources:
The Intro Documentation & Quick Start Guides

The GameMaker YouTube Videos on Events & Layers

Credits:

GameMaker/Opera
Notion
Godot
C++
Spelunky - MossMouth
Hotline Miami - Dennaton Games / Devolver Digital
Undertale - TobyFox
Heartbound - Pirate Software

Chapters:

00:00 Tease
00:03 Intro & Recap
02:00 The Documentation
03:19 GML Code vs GML Visual
04:39 Back to the Documentation
05:16 GameMaker Videos
06:39 My Notes in Notion #NotSponsored
07:10 What’s Next
07:43 My Current Thoughts & Accessibility Questions
08:42 Outro

[mjg]

It's good to know that the documentation is very accessible for newbies. Since it's free to download and export games for personal use and I love free stuff, I might try it out.

[HenriqueAndrade]

Great video! Have you considered Construct 3?

[lunarcoregames]

Been using Gamemaker since Gamemaker 8 back in 2010

[khairulhamdan]

Interestingly Godot 3 had visual code inbuilt but it was depreciated for Godot 4. GameMaker seems a lot more geared towards newer designers/programers which is cool to see.