This should seem very familiar if you have been using Gamemaker for a while. The player’s step is only going to be updating the player’s depth based on their current y position inside of the room. Gun = instance_create_layer(x, y, 'Instances', obj_gun) Inside of the Create event we are going to be spawning a gun on the player’s x, y location, and we are going to pass through the player’s instance id over to the gun. We only need to add 2 lines of code to the create event and a single line of code inside the step event. The amount of code that we need to put inside of the player object to make this work is very minimal. We can begin by writing all of the code for the player.

Once your objects have been created and your editor looks like mine, we are ready to start writing some code. The sprite for the player should be center aligned, the gun’s sprite should be middle left aligned and the wall doesn’t really matter. The player and wall sprites can be 32 * 32 and the gun can be 32 * 8. The player, wall and gun need sprites to be able to see them in the room. We can start this project by opening up GameMaker Studio 2 and creating our 4 game objects, I named mine obj_player, obj_gun, obj_wall and obj_camera_controller. I will add some wall objects just to show the camera system working, because it will be hard to see the camera’s movement on a pure black background. Building these features in GameMaker Studio 2 isn’t really all of that hard, it only requires 3 game objects to be created, a player object, a gun object and a camera controller object.

Nuclear throne sprites