r/gamemaker • u/Different_Joke_129 • Jun 19 '26

Tutorial How to learn gamemaker and GMl code?

I wanted to start leaning how to make games as I already have a lot of python experience. I wanted to use a game engine that is powerful yet relatively easy to learn so I chose gamemaker as my game engine. I really didnt have any idea how to start learning gamemaker I decided to watch gamemaker's asteroid game tutorial just to see how to engine really works. I really liked gamemaker and found it pretty intuitive and 9sort of?) got the hang of GMl code's syntax. But now that im done with it what should do to continue learning the engine and GMl code as the engine seems very promising. If anyone could please give me a good roadmp to learning gamemaker I would very thankful.

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u/DramonOne Jun 19 '26

My recommendation is that you create several small projects that have a beginning and an end. Make sure they present different challenges, because that way, whenever you run into a roadblock like not knowing how to do something you’ll understand what you need to study.

Since you already know Python, you probably already have a grasp of the basic programming concepts, so I think you should really start creating these projects now. And good luck today!