This article will continue the series on developing a Beat Em Up in Game Maker by expanding the abilities of our AI enemies, by introducing a Combo system,...

This article will focus on creating a dynamic camera, making BattleRegions or areas for combat to take place, and giving the enemies the ability to start...

In this article series we‘re going to look back and explore how to make a classic Beat ’Em Up game.

Why place tiles by hand when your code can do it for you? This useful technique will save you time and energy by evaluating each tile's neighbors and...

Rendering onto a texture, as opposed to directly to the screen, is a very useful technique in many shader effects and post-processing effects. Here, I'll...

Smoke or fluid effects look cool and can give your game a realistic edge, but what if you want to create something more dynamic or custom? In this tutorial,...

In this part of our series, we'll introduce a new mechanic to the character: ledge grabbing. We'll also make appropriate changes to both the pathfinding...

A game is usually made of several different entities that interact with each other. Those interactions tend to be very dynamic and deeply connected with...

In this tutorial, we'll use the platformer pathfinding algorithm we've been building to power a bot that can follow the path by itself; just click on a...

In this tutorial, we'll extend our grid-based platformer pathfinder so that it can cope with characters that take up more than one cell of the grid.

In this short tutorial, we'll extend our platformer pathfinder so that it can deal with one-way platforms: blocks that the character can jump through and...

Now that we have a good idea of how to modify an A* pathfinding algorithm to work for platformers, it's time to actually code it. Rather than build it from...