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The Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners Paperback – October 17, 2007

by Jacob Habgood (Author),‎ Mark Overmars (Author),‎ Phil Wilson (Foreword)

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The Game Makers Apprentice shows you how to create nine exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool. This book covers a range of genres, including action, adventure, and puzzle games complete with professional quality sound effects and visuals. It discusses game design theory and features practical examples of how this can be applied to developing games that are more fun to play.

Game Maker allows games to be created using a simple drag-and-drop interface, so you don’t need to have any prior coding experience. It includes an optional programming language for adding advanced features to your games, when you feel ready to do so. You can obtain more information by visiting book.gamemaker.nl.

The authors include the creator of the Game Maker tool and a former professional game programmer, so you’ll glean understanding from their expertise. The book also includes supplementary materials (on Apress.com) containing Game Maker software and all of the game projects that are created in the book—plus a host of professional-quality graphics and sound effects that you can use in your own games.

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"The desire to create computer games attracts many young people to computing. This book meets the needs of this group of readers and students very well. It is also a fine introduction to the making of computer games for the experienced software developer who always wondered how games were made. … There are excellent software development lessons that can be learned using this book … . the book provides a superb introduction to programming as well as to game construction." (Anthony J. Duben, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (5), May, 2008)

About the Author

Jacob's career in the games industry spans fourteen years, but he has been programming games as an amateur and professional now for a quarter of a century. During this time he has worked on over a dozen published games for all the major console platforms, including as the lead programmer of the cult British game, Hogs of War. He has programmed, designed and project-managed titles for publishers like Gremlin, Infogrames, Atari, Disney and Konami and he truly knows the meaning of the word "crunch".
Somehow he also found time to study a Ph.D. in the psychology of learning and has a passion for most things that connect video games and learning (including a whole lot of research involving zombies: zombiedivision.co.uk). This passion also extends to teaching game development, which he practices in his position as Senior Lecturer in Game Development at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK.

Paperback: 311 pages
Publisher: Apress; 1st Corrected ed., Corr. 4th printing edition (October 17, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590596153
ISBN-13: 978-1590596159
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.8 x 10 inches
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Average Customer Review: 164 customer reviews
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Merril W. Thompson

Great for exploring your dreams!

March 14, 2017

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Great book, and easy to follow. It's a little outdated, but still contains valuable lessons; I applaud the author for writing this fantastic book, Great for those who want to dabble in video game creation!

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Shaun

Great to learn but needs to be updated

January 20, 2014

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I bought this book already knowing about game maker and wanting to learn more. The book itself is well written and guides you through step by step to create 9 games each one progressively adding more depth and work to accomplish. It teaches you the basics and even at the end of each chapter tells you to tinker with the game you just made and see what you can add to it and gives some hints which I personally thought was pretty cool. The only downside is this book uses gamemaker 8 which is included on the cd but game maker is currently at the time of me writing studio 1.2. Some of the drag and drop functions needed for the book are no longer included such as the sleep function and the show highscore function. However this is to help make the games created with the software easier to distribute across multiple platforms I.E. Android, Apple, Etc. You can easily google and find workarounds to these problems and alot of the solutions are on the yoyogames website itself as well so its not to big of a problem but something that buyers need to know beforehand. So i would like to see the book updated to game maker studio but as mentioned before you can use workarounds which will help sharpen your skils even more. All in all this is a great book and a good starting point for learning how to use game maker and i would recommend it to anyone who is interested in game maker.

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mathGorilla

Good but outdated.

August 11, 2015

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This book is quite good but it is based on an older version of Game Maker. It often instructs you to do things that are no longer possible like "Show Highscore" and "Sleep". So the three stars is based on the fact that it is outdated for Game Maker's newest version. But beyond that, it is a great tutorial for building games and introducing concepts gradually.

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JoeBulldog

A nice toy

September 4, 2017

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

Nice to play around with but you are not going to learn programming with it. A fun book every thing you need is on line.

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Amazon Customer

Could never get the disc to download properly. Very ...

November 8, 2015

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

Could never get the disc to download properly. Very frustrating. I followed the instructions and also tried numerous troubleshooting options without luck. Was of money.

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Will H.

Game Maker's Apprentice

May 10, 2011

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The Game Maker's Apprentice is a companion book for videogame engine software "Game maker". ( About 15 years ago, videogames began to split into the game "engine" which could be re-used and monetizied to make other games, and the game assets which would be unique to the game. This is now common practise with game engines being either free, available for a fee or proprietary...see Wikipedia "Videogame engines") This book is a step-by-step, easy-to-use guide to building working games (2-D games so far...)inside the Game make game engine. The book comes with a free download of the freeware Game maker ( see YoYO games.com). For about $30, you can upgrade to the pro-version which allows you to build executable file games which you can send to other people...

Back to the Book...it is well written with lots of screen shots of what you should see at each stage of the game's design. Almost anyone can write your own game in a few hours.

I have previously duplicated the first 3 games which are described in the free tutorials available at the gamemaker website in about 3 weeks. This book was a great addition to those tutorials. While no game engine is effortless, In my opinion this book's approach is about as straight forward and visually oriented as I can imagine.

Enjoy!
Sons of SeriesThe Game Maker's Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners (Book & CD)

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fuzzyroo

It's pretty awesome, though I would not recommend this book ...

September 19, 2014

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It's pretty awesome, though I would not recommend this book outside of a course of game design. Game Maker Studio has out paced this book as the book is based on an outdated version and calls for features/functions that are no longer in use. (so far the items that are no longer available are things like the "Display High Score Table" and "Sleep" events).

But for learning the basics, this book is pretty well done.

Also note: If you are buying it used (through Amazon or wherever else), you can download the resource CD at the publisher's website.

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ran mekler

I want my money back

January 13, 2017

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Amazon should abort purchases of this book and give the us our money back!

This outdated book was written in 2006, when it was more common to include CD's in the actual book.
Unfortunately, the interface (and probably some of the commands in the book) is different from the new version. The website
which suppose to give you the assets for the games does not include them, so you cant do realy anything.

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raynekitten

Five Stars

Great book for my class. Learning a lot.

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dwight mobley

One Star

Don't recommend

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Happy Customer

Very good read

Well done book!

Published 3 months ago

Mark Lopez

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Although I'm only half way through the book I'm most impressed with the language used, images used and the type of games the book explains. You won't be disappointed.

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P. Kim

Useful but outdated

Useful but outdated...

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Very Worn Out

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Two Stars

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Edward Kilsdonk

Words are good, examples and CD are missing

The good: the book discusses principles of game design and shows examples.
The not so good: The book is very out of date, referring to Gamemaker 8 - I downloaded Gamemaker 14...Read more

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Mostly A Waste of Money

I was lucky enough to get this in a bundle and knew it'd probably be useless going in. It didn't disappoint.Read more

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