We’ll now create the room where our game will take place. You should have 3 sprites inside of your project with centered origin points. Now, repeat the process with the ball.png and background.png files. You’ll now see that the origin point is in the center of the image, and that its coordinates have been updated. So click on the scrolling menu and choose Middle Centre. It’s currently set to Top Left but in our case we want it to be in the center of the image. It also means that if we rotate the object, it’ll rotate around this point. This is the point we’ll use to know where the object is positioned in the game. In the middle of the sprite window, you can see that the Origin is set to 0x0 and Top Left. Name the newly created sprite sPaddle (it means sprite + paddle). Right click on Sprites, and select Create Sprite From Image(s). You can see there’s a Resources tab on the right side of your screen. The first thing we’ll do is import the assets. Now close that window and we're good to go! Let’s make Pong! Importing an asset In the window that just popped up, change the frames per second to 60 and click Apply. Then open up a new GML project in GMS and save it somewhere.Īfter that, make sure the game is set to run at 60 frames per second.Ĭlick on the Game Options button in the top left of your screen. You’ll also need GameMaker Studio 2 (free trial version or any license).
I’m not going to explain in detail what variables, functions or if-statements are.Īlright, let’s learn how to make Pong with GameMaker Studio 2! Set upįirst, download the assets here and extract them somewhere. Prerequisites: I’ll assume you already know some basic concepts of programming.
How to make objects move and collide with each other.GMS2 basics: sprites, objects, rooms, events, layers and more.Here’s what you’ll learn in this tutorial: Well, Pong is the perfect project to start with. You just picked up GameMaker Studio 2 and you want to make your first game. View the original blog post here: How to Make Pong with Gamemaker Studio 2 (2020)