Game skeletons in Game Maker for the course Design and Programming of Computer Games

Abstract: This report is written as a summary of the solution to the problem that the staff for the course TDDD23 at the Swedish university Linköpings universitet wanted two computer game skeletons. One for a scrolling shooter game and one for a strategy game. The games the staff wanted were to be like two existing games. The scrolling shooter was to be like the scrolling shooter from the tutorial GM Tutorial Scrolling Shooter[1]. The strategy game was to be like an existing game called Ancient War[2]. There were some additional requirements that the games had to fulfill. The games were created using Game Maker. It is an easy to use program for creating small computer games. The result of the project was two game skeletons. One for a scrolling shooter game and one for a strategy game. The skeletons were according to the requirements stated.