The EASIEST GameMaker Studio Menu Tutorial

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to make a painfully simple menu system that works for GMS1.4, 2, and 2.3.

[prismgenixz]

OMG thank you, so, so much!! I just wanted a simple, useable menu screen. I didn't want all those bells and whistles - all other tutorials were way too in-depth and way too confusing for a newbie. I didn't even know what buttons they were pressing. You are amazing!! I can't thank you enough. Please continue making these ❤❤

[weedyeeter]

i have to finish my game in 5 hours, you just took hours of work off my shoulders, i salute you and thank you

[naelpontes]

Holy shit, the alt key tip and the blur effect was amazing as well, thanks !!

[David-dzcb]

Been looking for something just like this for a bit now, and while I'm not sure I can translate all of this into DnD(as coding is intimidating to me), I really appreciate the text tricks and simple, clear explanation.

[amimina]

Thank you for that middle click thing that will bring the manual I didn't know that. Really frustrated with the program atm.

[MrSolveMYMaze]

Great tutorial! I've been wanting to get into GMS2 and been wondering about menus, this is exactly what I've been looking for.

[japandi]

Thank you so much, I'm just trying to do a few simple games before I dive into deeper projects and this was just what I needed to get me started on them! Thanks for sharing.

[TheRealMightyEmperor]

Very useful for me as I have just begun today, thanks for the guide!

[itzmonstrovr]

So nice and helpful! Thx so much! Wish you had more subs!

[Ironmetal]

Everytime I press play its just white.

[pieTone]

How can I make a go back button? like when I choose to see the controls and want to go back to the main menu, I have to alt f4.. how can I make a go back option?

[Binkx]

Holy crap dude this was really helpful thank you

[pickelbyte]

So I am making a 2d game where you can shoot missiles and guns and the menu screen works perfect, but when I start the game I cannot use any of the controls (space for gun and x for missile) other than moving around. I don't know why, but it was working before I put the menu into it.

Edit: the controls i used for the menu screen were up arrow, down arrow, and the enter key, the keys for the game itself are 'w', 'a', 's', 'd', 'x', and 'space'.

Edit 2: I don't know what I did but now it works. Thanks, amazing tutorial!

[venomousalex]

Heck yeah I made a menu ^-^ gotta expand from that now haha

Thank you so much for the tutorial!

[booboo_the_great]

That was a very informative video and I watched all of it. I have a couple questions for you, if you don't mind answering them. My menu has unique sprites for each option for example the settings button is a gear wheel and The menu is composed of 4 individual objects and one sprite, which is just the title. The menu is being specifically designed for mobile use. I have no idea how to go about it.

[CJ]

Thsi was very helpful but one thing i want my menu buttons to glow when i am hovering with my mouse how would i do that

[missing-N]

Heya, I was wondering if this was functional with the analog sticks. I attempted it which only resulted in it going too fast or looping endlessly

[LukeDickson]

it gave me a Compile Error and says on step 18 unexpected symbol "}" in expression idk what to do

[Tetron]

im not sure if this is still working but when i run the program it automatically presses enter without me doing anything do you know how to fix this?

[KingTubeAR]

Thanks a lot, the idea is simple and the execution is easy
though one problem I found was the game I teleport too dropped in framerate to almost 15, however the next room that is not in contact with this menu code had normal 60 fps
it might be because I UpScaled the text!?