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

by Rajiv

Chapter 1: An introduction to Game Maker Studio 2 Chapter This chapter helps the reader get started with GMS2, how to download and install it, getting started with a project, an overview of the interface (which will act as a reference later if need be)No of 20Sub -Topics1. Downloading and installing GamerMaker Studio2. Breaking down the interface - where to find what/what does this button do?Chapter 2: Chapter 2: Introduction to GML Chapter This chapter serves as an introduction to GML, what is new in GML in GMS2 and how to get started with writing code. This chapter will not be in-depth and will not cover all the functions available in GMS2, but will be a language overview by creating a small game. No of 40Sub - Topics 1. Writing code in GMS2 - Scripts, Objects and Events2. Data Types and Variables and Scope3. Assignments and Expressions4. Arrays and Data Structures 5. Language Features and Program flow control statements6. FunctionsChapter 3: Making your first game Chapter The goal of this chapter is to start on our main game, but a single player version of it. It starts off with a game design process where we plan well in advance what we are going to do; and moves on to talk about how to translate ideas from paper to a prototype. We then move on to build the game from the prototype, adding more complex behaviors and features.No of pages : 70Sub - 1. Game Design 101 - a reusable process/framework2. Planning your game3. Rooms, Sprites and Objects4. Building a single player version5. Getting the core mechanics in place6. HUDs, Menus and moreChapter 4: An introduction to NodeJS Chapter This chapter introduces the reader to NodeJS and how one can get started with it. Some level of JavaScript knowledge is required. We will setup a small http server and work with Express. No of 15Sub - 1. Installing NodeJS2. Your first program3. Extending the server with expressChapter 5: Talking to your server Chapter This chapter focuses on integrating our game with our NodeJS server. At first, we will create a feature which reads a list of news updates from the server and display it when the game loads. As a second exercise, we try to read and post a high scores table. No of 40Sub - 1. Getting data - A daily news and updates ticker2. Setting data - A simple high scores pageChapter 6: Introducing the multiplayer game Chapter In this chapter, we will implement the game logic on the server - finding a player, starting a game session, playing the game, syncing data etc. No of 50Sub - 1. Representing the player and their data2. Finding a player3. Playing the game on the server 4. Game session - syncing data across the server and clients

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About the author

Rajiv Kumar hails from Bangalore. He is an engineering graduate of B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore and is currently working in Bangalore. He maintains a list of ‘directors; and he dreams he would someday write stories and screenplays for them. He believes that creativity is beyond languages.
He has been heavily influenced by almost everything —from his memory of watching cartoons on Doordarshan as a kid, school days’ gossiping, comic books, dreams, nightmares, movies...After reading many short stories, he felt that readers’ minds have been tuned to perceive short stories as a stand-alone tale, which can be read in one sitting, waiting for the twist in the end. Craving to create a niche for himself, his collection of short stories, have the essence of entertainment, taking the experience of reading a short story to a new level. The result is “Navarasa by lotus”. He is currently writing a thriller novel; it’s a story set in an alternate universe.