Lesson 4 Summary

In Lessons 4 and 5 you'll learn how to create a maze game using many of the skills developed in the previous three lessons. The instructions for doing this will usually assume that you now know how to do all the basics in Game Maker such as creating sprites, objects, rooms, sounds and backgrounds as well as giving objects events and actions. However, it may be useful to have a printed copy of the main action tabs available whilst doing this work.

These two lessons will introduce some of the program's more advanced features, such as:

• collecting objects
• displaying messages
• losing character lives
• using the keyboard for controlling a game character

This makes the gameplay more interesting than in the previous game.