How to Create 2 Awesome Power Ups in GameMaker 

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Want to make power-ups in your video game? Watch this tutorial to turn your frail spaceship into an invincible rock blaster. Downloads: * Assets: coal.gamemaker.io/sites/5d75794b3c84c70006700381/assets/649c22b24f6bf54116bb283e/Space_Rocks_Powerups_Sprites.zip * Starting project (GML Visual): yoyo-www-cms.s3.amazonaws.com/sites/5d75794b3c84c70006700381/assets/649c2af44f6bf54116bb2849/SpaceRocks_GMLVisual.yyz * Starting project (GML Code): yoyo-www-cms.s3.amazonaws.com/sites/5d75794b3c84c70006700381/assets/649c2af44f6bf54116bb2848/SpaceRocks_GMLCode.yyz Tutorial series: 1. Base game: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nwlvT-L9vFg.html 2. Main Menu: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Us5GSddVedY.html 3. Music and SFX: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NGNJWpiVS1M.html 4. Power Ups: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xeXsRRYSQ78.html

Thanks for the tutorials! I had to rewind a fair bit for this one and your sound effects one because I had trouble keeping up, but I feel that's only because it's my second day working in GameMaker. But rewinding helped me a lot anyway as I started understanding different concepts better hearing them repeated again.

my favorite part of this tutorial was the confirmation of the existance of delta_time.

Great tutorial. You can add a powerup that lets the player shoot bullets from behind

thank you so much. this tutorial helped out so mush. I love how you have both GML visual and code side by side. most other people doing tutorials do not do this.

"Teleport" ship to a random location would be a common and fairly simple powerup to add - but how could one code a "teleport to safe location" to prevent the ship from coming out of hyperspace either in a rock or surrounded by rocks that will destroy it instantly? Another good powerup is a shield - drawing a circle around the player ship and "bouncing" off of rocks instead of passing through them or exploding. Need to take into account a situation where rocks surround player ship so there is nowhere to bounce TO - bounce rocks away from player instead/as well? It'd be interesting to see a shader being used to add "glow" to all the non-text elements in the game room, but that might be a bit beyond the scope of this particular tutorial series, BTW, loving the new "Space Rocks" tutorials - the first one simply blew me away with how little effort is required to produce an actually playable foundation for a game.

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i'd like to see a powerup that puts a shield around the ship, protecting it from a hit from an asteroid, if you make another one of these. maybe a lives system as well? i think another neat small touch would be to add a little engine flame sprite and/or sound effect to the ship when you're moving forward. i'm a beginner so i don't really know, but for the shield, i guess you'd create a sprite, and make it so that when the powerup variable is 3, it would create an instance of the shield around the ship, on a 10 second timer. add collision on the rock so that hitting the shield destroys it (or changes its direction of movement), removes the shield, and maybe gives the ship some s so the powerup doesnt feel janky.

Add a thrust to it for the ship but using rings like it is magnetic. also i don't remember engine sounds but asteroids has one.

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After this tutorial is there one to maybe at a 2nd player or anything else?

the download for actives does not work

so thanks a lot because u helped me to do what i dreamt for

I had some trouble downloading the sprites. So I used a picture of jam for spread and me doing a funny face for the invincibility sprite.

My power-ups spawn every time a rock is destroyed, and only changed the colour of the ship and add the timer. They don't actually work as expected.

Loving these videos!!

Thanks for the tutorials. and the link did not work but it more fun to make one. so it make it fun

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How do I make it so it chooses between the spread and the ghost?

I can't seem to get the sprites, and when I tried on the official website, the sprite download didn't seem like it was in the right format as it was something called YYMPS.

For powerup, I just get idea for spread shooting of 100 bullets or more/less. I test it with 5 and looks cool, but will be kind of same I guess, with 100 just like with 4. Just will have larger range. Maybe some kind of laser just like in Breakout game or maybe to add some lives?

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Hey, the sprites for this series of Tutorials are not available anymore. The links are broken. Could you check the links?

When I put in the code for the first power up and get into the game and pick it up it just starts shooting really fast for 10 seconds I don’t have to click anything please help

excelente tutorial, excelente professor, documentei todo o jogo no meu caderno e agora vou treinar

For some reason even though it seems all the code is exact it wont spawn in the power ups randomly (using gml code)

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Next part = How to add Hp to rocks, to ship and implement a pause menu :)))

This was great! I must have made some weird error though because my timer is only on until I collect a powerup, and then it turns off.

Sprites are not on available on the site for download.

If you are having issues with the asset download, be sure that you right click + unzip the files after downloading. Then go to tools + import local package in Game Maker to select the images. :)

I feel like I followed everything pretty well however after 10 seconds has passed or longer the power up still doesn’t appear!

hey i want to change the colour of sprite with the use of points like after 1000 points the ship turns red or purple how to do that

Hey may i ask what font do you use

assets link down or something , great videos btw

The assets won't import for this and the sound assets form the other tutorial don't even download

i have a weird error at dowloading assets

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How i can add new enemies

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how i can add a ingameshop?

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Can you please now make it that ou can die with lives and make a new level with enemies? There is a previous tutorial on it but its a very old one and it doesn't work. I like the one you've created with menus and wanna stick to it. Cheers

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Thx but i don't know why i feel old game maker feel easier

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Nice video, I enjoyed the tutorial. May I have your email address please so that I inbox you. Thanks

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