Yadu Rajiv - Developing Turn-Based Multiplayer Games: with GameMaker Studio 2 and NodeJS

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Welcome to Developing Turn-Based Multiplayer Games with GameMaker Studio 2 and Node.js . This book will serve as a quick introduction to making turn-based multiplayer games with GameMaker Studio 2.

This book will serve as a handy guide to those who are already familiar with GameMaker Studio as well as an introduction to those who are new to it.

The first two chapters of the book introduce you to GameMaker Studio and how to start working with GameMaker Language (GML). We reinforce your learning in Chapter by making a simple, well-rounded, and playable game.

Chapter builds upon this experience to write a simple dice roller server application that can communicate back and forth with a client game made in GameMaker Studio.

Chapter focuses on taking you through the steps of building a slightly more complex turn-based game with Node.js.

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First, I want to thank my wife, Pooja, and our beautiful baby girl Leela. You have given me the strength and courage to keep myself afloat and sail on through the storms to find my small island of creativity.

Id also like to thank my Acquisitions Editor at Apress, Nikhil Karkal, for having faith in me and signing me up to write this book and my Coordinating Editor, Divya Modi, for her immense patience and constant support. Huge thanks to Matthew Moodie and Dickson Law for doing the technical review and weighing in at the right places to help me shape the content accurately.

I want to thank my friends Joel, Rishi, and Kinshuk for being constant forces of positive encouragement in my life.

A big shoutout to the community of game developers in Bangalore and the whole of India, and to all the Indies who keep the dream alive!

Lastly, I want to thank you, the reader, for buying this book. I hope it helps you get started on the extraordinary journey that is gamedev.

About the Author

Yadu Rajiv

is a Game Designer, Developer, curator, and evangelist for independent games. In 2011, he co-founded Hashstash Studios, where he designed and developed multiple games. He teaches User Experience Design, Game Design, and Game Development at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India. He has been building and supporting communities around game design and development since 2008 and is currently working on GameDev.in ( http://gamedev.in ). Yadu writes about Game Design, Game UX, and Development on Twitter under his handle, yadurajiv, as well as on his blog ( http://yadurajiv.com ).

About the Technical Reviewer

Dickson Law

is a GameMaker hobbyist, commentator, and extension developer with 8 years of community experience. In his spare time, he enjoys writing general-purpose libraries, tools, and articles covering basic techniques for GameMaker Studio. As a web programmer by day, his main areas of interest include integration with server-side scripting and API design. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

In this chapter, you will get started with GameMaker Studio 2 (GMS2). The first thing we will be doing is to find out how we can download and install the latest version of GameMaker Studio 2. Once we have downloaded and installed the software, we will get started with an overview of GameMaker Studio 2s interface and then move on to create our first project.

Through this chapter, you will get a basic understanding of how a GameMaker Studio 2 project is laid out and navigate the integrated development environment (IDE) . This will give you a foundation for all future projects to come.