How to Make a 2D Platformer in GameMaker! (Slopes, Moving Platforms, Semi Solid Platforms) 

Thanks for checking out the series! Like I said, if you want to download the project file or watch the rest of the 9 videos early you can check that out on Patreon! (Links for that and my games and all that stuff are in the description!) This was a tough series to make so I hope it’s useful to you and you learn a lot!

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LES GOOOO!!!! I'm so excited to follow this one

The best GameMaker Teacher is back. I immediately subscribed to you on Patreon to watch all parts right away. Thanks Champ!

I dont think ive ever been this exited for a series, ive been checking every 20 minutes for part 2 for the last 3 days😂

Used my time machine to get here, bit upset that my 2021 version of gamemaker is not compatible with this tutorial series ngl (Super hyped for this series and cant wait to make a cool platformer :3)

as a SCADA Engineer, I love this explanation and personality. I am super impressed. I can't wait to see the rest of this series, incredibly job with this :)

Best game maker tutorials on youtube, thanks for all you do. Just finished the RPG series and its the first tutorial series I have watched that made me feel like I fully understood everything and felt confident on the material. Perfect timing for a new series to come out.

new gamemaker dev here, and i just wanted to say that as a beginner, your tutorials are awsome!

This is a big help man, I look forward to the series!

I’m in the middle of making a small turn based rpg in my free time and I’ve been using your older videos, super informative! Glad to see you’re doing more types of stuff, I’ll definitely keep this video in mind if I ever make a platformer.

I like the idea of planning out those other 3 subtypes of platformers using this series as a base. I'm quite excited to see the end result!

Wow im just so excited or this tutorial! Thanks for everything peyton!

absolutely incredible tutorial! everything about it is so simple and easy to understand!

Omg yes! You are the best GMS2 Teacher on YT for me. Every video is so brilliantly executed and explained, great to follow and easy to build along. Still currently binging your twin stick-Shooter playlist but I'll be in this right after. Thank you for your content, King!

oh my god I've been trying to fix my moving platform bugs and you just came with this video form heaven to deliver me. thank you so much, i look forward to the next tutorials.

I can't wait to watch these in full!! Platforming logic is just something I never seem to get the hang of, and so far this seems like an amazingly helpful breakdown!

Peyton! i missed you! thanks for your amazing tutorials as always.

you know you can make any game you want when Professor Burnham is here B)

Came here striaght from your RPG series :), thank you, you are a wonderful teacher!

Heat as always 🙏🏾 We need that RPG beat em up tutorial next 👀

The best Godot tutorial producer out there. Thanks for your time!

Your videos have been a huge help to a novice hobbiest like myself just backed your Patreon you deserve all the support my friend 🙌🏻 thank you for all thw great educational content

No way i just trying to make a platformer game and this video come out

yayy, new video is there

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OMG this is perfect! I've been hobbling together everything I could find into my project and you have it all in one tutorial! Thank you so much! Now to redo a ton of janky code...

Lets freaking go, more tutorials!

You are amazing for this!!

Thank you so much for making these videos! 🙂

finally a game maker teacher, thank you very much, I hope you continue teaching

Awesome stuff man!!!

Starcross this year :O

I want to make a platformer and this sounds like an amazing resource. I am trying it out and following along now. Thanks for this

I'm looking forward to the rest of the series! 17:00 for platform collisions I've always done it this way: var _wall = instance_place( x + xspd, y, oWall ) if (_wall) { if (xspd > 0) x = _wall.bbox_left - sprite_width/2 else if (xspd < 0) x = _wall.bbox_right + sprite_width/2 xspd = 0 } x += xspd

Started a week ago again and now ur back! Sub. :)

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I've been coding in Scratch for 2 years now, and finally wanted to be able to port my ideas to a more versatile platform and make some actually good stuff this summer. It looks like this tutorial series just might make the dream true. Thank you so much for making this!

Amazing work ❤

Thank you!

Best,man!!!!!!

starcross is looking fun

Thank you ❤️

Thanks didn't understand a thing but you're explaining is pretty good

i hope this series helps, though im sure it will, because after this part one, ive already made a basic platforming room and understand what everything does, thanks to you

Great video ! Thx a lot !

Nice Thank you

great video and excited for the rest of the series! i've got the code down exactly the same way but running into an issue where when I try to jump, the player gets a few pixels off the ground and then just slams down again, almost as if it's hitting a roof? ive rewatched the section loads but cant seem to fix it? Edit: this was due to me missing a "+" feel like a dummy now lol

perfect tutorial

This is a great tutorial. It makes me want to make a platformer.

TOP!

Congratulations on the videos, is there a possibility of creating a Space Shooter series?

Lets go 💪💪

thx!!!!! i love ur videos!

Great video as always :) I have a question. Are you planning to make a video about optimization stuff?

Your RPG tutorial has single-handedly been carrying me through my senior capstone, so dang psyched to see you back!!!! I'm really happy with how it's turning out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TUvao6Btn6Y.html I've been wondering about adding Z-height jumping and slopes to my overhead game, wonder if that's possible with the slopes here. Speaking as an 8.1 OG I've always been baffled as to how to get slopes working.

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That's sick, slopes specifically where something properly missing from any 2d Platformer tutorial, ever. This comes roughly 5 years late for me but hopefully people don't have to suffer as I have while learning this fairly basic thing to their games.

i wish there was a version for just semisolids. I don't want to add moving platforms, but this tutorial mixes it in with moving.

i just found you are and you are amazing, would you possibly be able to make a video on how to make interactive signs?

Loving the tutorial so far, but having a bit of an issue where the player will clip 0.5 of a pixel into walls or the floor, I don't know why this is happening and it makes slopes a lot harder to do.

What are your thoughts on using the new move_and_collide instead?

Completely unrelated to this series, but I'm just curious if we'll see a cutscene system tutorial in the future. Been working on an indie RPG game for the past couple years after I found your series on the genre (the game has been in an absolute development hell due to rewrites lol, but it's finally free from that), and I'm finally in a state to work on cutscenes! You're always the goat when it comes to Gamemaker tutorial series, so I would love to see a cutscene system at some point. Keep up the great work, and thanks for all the programming help over the past few years!

why dont people use gamemakers built in physics more? right now im making a platformer using its built in physics and i dont really see much of a problem

For the X and Y collision variables, will they function the same if they went into a Collision event instead of the Step Event?

I have a question. How do you implement stuff like grappling hooks into your game

hey i have a problem, the oWall code is blue meaning its a variable, and when i loaded the project, it crashed because it was unexpected, fix please edit: nevermind, i found the issue, i even added momentum thanks to you peyton

How this series is different from Shaun's? Just the core without AI and shooting stuff?

Oh yeah Im gonna start next week

your movement code is wrong. you are supposed to use a unit vector to represent the move direction, if you do not do this your character is moving faster diagonally (and it is very noticeable) than it is horizontally or vertically! Here is some psuedocode for 2D Vector2 dir = Vector2.Zero; if (Keyboard.GetState().IsKeyDown(Keys.W)) dir.Y -= 1; if (Keyboard.GetState().IsKeyDown(Keys.S)) dir.Y += 1; if (Keyboard.GetState().IsKeyDown(Keys.A)) dir.X -= 1; if (Keyboard.GetState().IsKeyDown(Keys.D)) dir.X += 1; if (dir != Vector2.Zero) dir.Normalize(); position += dir * speed_per_sec * deltatime; If you did not have diagonal movement, then you do not need to normalize (make it a unit vector). This is basic trig.

Hi thanks for the tutorials, the newer move_and_collide seems to work great have you tried it ? If so what are your thoughts 💭 trying to decide on how to handle my collisions for platformers

Your explanations are great indeed, but one thing I don't understand is why did you set your var subPixel a second time for the vertical collision. Wasn't that already set in the horizontal collision? Shouldn't that code still be running for the vert col?

so resent thank you

I haven't started this series yet but can anyone verify if this covers air and ground friction/wall slides/ in the movement? I'm thinking I'd like to change my collision system to something a bit more modern but don't want to drastically alter the way my movement works if this series won't have the same features. Cheers!

video starts at 4:46 btw

Can you make the tutorial on how to make accelration and deaccelration with friction?

What was the Mario like game you showcased in the beginning?

Not sure if you'll add this later on, but how would you make it so that you couldn't change your x direction when in the air? Whenever I've tried it, I've then got the problem that I can't jump over walls if I'm close enough to hit them.

Idk if I did smth wrong or not but when I try playing the game it just freezes the player

line 14 in step event for mine doesnt work , how do i fix ?

AYYY

Hi. I'm having problems with collisions. I typed the same as in the video, I did the process 5 times and the problem continues The player is 1px above or below the "ground", collision with the wall the same, collides on one side and the other 5px inside the wall. Help me

~19:40 doesn't that while loop, in a sense, automatically cause the player to slide along the ground (without input from the player) until hitting the wall once a wall is first detected as being within 2 pixels?

I copied the code 100% exactly but when I try to move, my character doesn't move at all. Also I tried to make the test with the walls far for each other. It didn't changed that much. Now I can move, but the while !place_meeting() {} doesn't work and it stops me if I'm 2p close to the wall. Edit: I managed to fix my problem, it wasn't the code.

Did you make all three games you're showing at 3:22? And/or do you know their names? Ty!

is this only for 2.3

Has anyone tried to make these platforms work with a Path? i tried but the collision is not perfect

How can I make that multiply letter

Why won't the controlled work

Starts at 4:45

Although code works, but when I jump, it looks like I hit a ceiling and then I slowly fall back down. Can someone help me with this? Edit: I just needed to increase the jump, speed and terminal velocity

make a tutorial for squash and stretch

hey I kinda have a problem so i downloaded gamemaker but then moved it to recycle bin when i saw this video i decided to download it again, but then the installer said that gamemaker is already installed. my recycle bin is empty and gamemaker was permanently deleted, however it still says that gamemaker is installed. I literally cant find any installed gamemaker app on my computer, and the installer wont let me do anything. Even pressing "ok" to remove the previous version doesnt work. What can I do?

i love you

Thank you for the tutorial. I assume these are all based on super Mario control schemes. Another word you have mid air control or as I like to call it MAC. Can you make a tutorial with a character that has NOMAC as seen in donkey Kong or Castlevania?

you made a jump and shootman game and didnt TELL ME???

this video is really helpful but i ran into an issue. instead of jumping like the block in this video, it only jumps up a tiny bit and when i turn up the jump speed, it rockets into the air. It also falls incredibly slow. I did everything in the video right and reviewed my code many times over. can anyone help me?

Hey man! If i may...i would sugest to you to change the title of the video. This aint covers slopes and such. This is about basic movement, perfect collision system and basic jumping. Great series btw. thanks for the shared knowledge.

I just checked every line of code for like 5 times but I can't make this cube to move at all, I also tried to make it move by itself by changing moveDir = 1 instead of 0, but it didn't work eather, idk what to do