Game Maker Programming Welcome to the Game Maker Programming
tutorial at Wikibooks. Game Maker by Mark Overmars, which we
deal with in these tutorials is not to be confused with
GameMaker or The 3D Game Maker. Some of the chapters may be
written using an older Game Maker version, so if the GUI does
not look identical to your own, don't worry, these tutorials are
all compatible with version 9. Game Maker is a game development
software application written by Mark Overmars in the Delphi
programming language. It is designed to allow its users to
easily develop computer games without having to learn a complex
programming language such as C++ or Pascal. For experienced
users, Game Maker contains a built-in scripting programming
language called "GML", or "Game Maker Language". Games can be
distributed either free, or for profit, as ".gmk", ".gm6", or
".gmd" source files, or as standalone ".exe" files. To extend
the Drag and Drop functionality of Game Maker, you can use files
called Libraries to add new drag and drop