The Game Maker Language (GML)

Game Maker contains a built-in programming language. This programming language gives you much more flexibility and control than the standard actions. This language we will refer to as GML (the Game Maker Language). In this section we describe the language GML and we give an overview of all the (close to 1000) functions and variables available to control all aspects of your game.

Information on GML can be found in the following pages:

Language overview Computing things
Game play
User interaction
Game graphics
Sound and music
Splash screens, highscores and other pop-ups
Resources
Changing resources
Files, registry, and executing programs
Data structures
Creating particles
Multiplayer games
Using DLL's
3D Graphics