Ebook: The game maker's apprentice: game development for beginners

Part 1 Getting started -- Welcome to game maker -- Your first game: devilishly easy -- Part 2 Action games -- More actions: a galaxy of possibilities -- Target to the player: it's fun being squished -- Game design: interactive challenges -- Part 3 Level design -- Inheriting events: mother of pearl -- Maze games: more cute things in peril -- Game design: levels and features -- Part 4 Multiplayer games -- Cooperative games: flying planes -- Competitive games: playing fair with tanks -- Game design: balance in multiplayer games -- Part 5 Enemies and intelligence -- GML: become a programmer -- Clever computers: playing tic-tac-toe -- Intelligent behaviour: animating the dead -- Final words.