GameMaker Studio Book Intermediate Guide 1 - Platform Game: Make A Fully Featured Platform Game Paperback – September 12, 2014

This is without a doubt the worse "GUIDE" to using game maker I ever seen. The book consist of page after page of code of a basic two level platformer with break points that simply say things like, this next section handles the collision detection of player, or this next section will display splash screen. But it never seems to tell you why or how the functions do what they do. The last several pages of the 107 pg book, which could have easily fit into about a third of that if everything wasn't doubled space and such. The last several pages were used showing every single sprite that was used in the game. One page was used to show about 40 sprites that created the small explosion effect. This effect was generated in another program and every sprite looked almost identical. So again, wasted page. No programming was taught at all. And to make matters worse, the main point of this book is to simply type all his code to see his 2 level game, but no dvd was included with code or artwork. If that was included at least you would have gotten a small game out of the deal. But even the game would have no real value.well, hope this review helps in your decision.

This book is rubbish. This is what it contains:- source code with no explenations whatsoever.- all sprites used in project printed out(what for?)And thats it, its just code plus sprites printed out. Not very good code or sprites(makes no difcerence as u cant use them in your projects)Go to yoyo marketplace and youll get better engines for fraction of this price