Build a Side-Scrolling Platformer with GameMaker: Studio

Course details

In this course, instructor Alan Thorn will be walking through the process of creating a side-scrolling platformer game from scratch using GameMaker: Studio. Here he will be covering topics such as sprite creation, tilesets, collision detection, and any scripting necessary to get the game up and running.

About the Instructor:

Alan Thorn is a freelance game developer and author with over 12 years of industry experience. He is the founder of London-based game studio, Wax Lyrical Games, and is the creator of award-winning adventure game Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok. He has worked freelance on over 500 projects worldwide including games, simulators, kiosks, and augmented reality software for game studios, museums and theme parks.

He has spoken on game development at universities throughout the UK, and is the author of nine books on game development, including Teach Yourself Games Programming, Unity 4 Fundamentals and the highly popular UDK Game Development. More information on Alan Thorn and his start-up Wax Lyrical Games can be found at: http://ww.alanthorn.net and http://www.waxlyricalgames.com