Important - Before You Learn From Me

I should note that I am a terrible teacher. I've never been good at it, but I hope that I can lead by example.

Before you begin to learn from this website, I want to direct you to a video series that had helped me greatly in learning what I do know about game design: Tom Francis' (the developer of Gunpoint and the upcoming Heat Signature) Make a Game With No Experience.

Through work and personal life, I have not been able to finish this video series for myself, but if you want to learn how to make games in Game Maker, this is the best source for getting started.

This blog itself is a hybrid of an ongoing dev diary for all of my games and a learning tool for beginning developers, so don't expect the amount of depth that you will get from Tom Francis' educational series, but I do hope the two of us, yes, you and me, will come away from this blog with more to show for than what we started with.

- Frank

Twelve Months of Game Design

So, I've set myself a challenge for the year. I plan on designing one game per month for the whole year. The games are going to be small and nothing special, but they will be playable and done to the best of my abilities.

I'll be posting the first game I'm working on shortly.

Coming Soon - A Blog About Game Design From An Amateur

Hello, my name is Frank, and I'm an incredibly amateur game designer. I know enough Game Maker Language (GML) to get by and I hope to share this vast ocean of knowledge with you, the public. This way, aspiring game designers, such as myself, can learn how to code and create right alongside me.

Cheers,
Frank