I tought my older brother how to use Game Maker yesterday. He has always wanted to program his own game, but never really succeeded, mostly due to the fact he's too lazy to learn how. He has tried MSVC# and never really got anywhere, so he asked me to show him how to use GM, so I did. He never really liked GM because he thought it was too "noob" compared to a low-level language like C. Now look who came crawling back to GM =)

So we opened up the Hit the Ball example in GM7, and I showed him how it all worked. I tought him the basics like how the resource system works etc. and how to make an object execute a piece of GML. (We kinda skipped D&D and went straight on to GML)

2 hours later….

He came up with this (with me giving him pointers)

James' HitZeHeadshot

As you can probably guess its hit the ball but with headshots (he's obsessed). I suppose if you ever watched Pure Pwnage you'd find it mildly amusing.

It has a menu screen where you can select the difficulty and the number of balls/faces and has a scoring system with accuracy percentage and stuff. The balls also get faster the more you play it. So its basically Hit the Ball but with a few bells and whistles… and blood. Play it if you want, I'm sure he'd love some criticism.

So yeah, it was quite fun passing my knowledge of GM onto someone else, maybe you should try it some day.