i need to make enemies that creat at a random X and followa certain path to follow to the spaceship would ahve something to fight. i also need to make boundries in the game. i need to make a cool down on the lasers so there isnt a large amount of missles fired.

past week

past week.
i have learned a little bit about the game maker language. i have read alot of tutorials and watched a few videos. i read the basics on how to create sprites, object and rooms. i ahve advanced my idea of a space related game to start with. i figured that it will be a guinea pig and i can see what will work and what wont and the limitations of the game.

Future week.
preferably this class i need to find what i would call a model game that would be similar to mine to see how the game would work and see how the object relate to the sprites and the rooms and the instances. by getting thsi information i can customize it and make it my own.

here is the website i used to learn the info i currently obtain.
http://gamemaker.wikicomplete.info/beginner-s-guide

Today in class i learned alot more in the game maker language. I used all the information i learned from last class watching videos and reading tutorials and i put it to use. in game maker its a little different because the sprites are essentially a costume instead of a thing and an object is what the thing actually is, it jsut needs a 'costume' (aka a sprite). then i assigned movements to my object so i can go up down left and right. i want to make a game so there is two players and wherever the player move a trail is behind them. and both of the players have to avoid the trail and enclose the other player in thier trail so they crash.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Maker

http://www.yoyogames.com/make/tutorials

http://gamemaker.wikicomplete.info/beginner-s-guide

http://gmc.yoyogames.com/lofiversion/index.php/f28.html

goals update

For the first week in december i plan on understanding the simple language of GM. i could be doing this by finding other peaces of code. I wish to learn on how to comprehend how the games are written in the language. maybe if i have enough classes and learn enough than i can start to create simple programs. for the following week i will neeed:
to find a good tutorial
and to have alot of computer time