Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago

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This platformer video tutorial series teaches you how to create a platformer in simple steps.

The last video established horizontal movement and sprite changes between two states, idle and moving. Sometimes your player character still gets stuck, as a best practise it is a good idea to seperate the sprite_index which is getting swapped and the collision itself. For that we have one collision mask sprite that we assign to avoid that hassle. And last we establish the vertical movement. So we check if we have ground below the player. If no we fall and set the sprite index to a fall image. If we do have ground below us we enable the player to jump by pressing the space bar.
That's it!

Tldr this video:
- fixing getting stuck
- using tileset for collisions
- jumping and falling down


Blog post mentioned:
gamemaker.io/de/tutorials/easy-platformer



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0:00 Explaining what we will do
1:26 Grab the id of the tileset and use it for collisions
2:46 Fixing getting stuck, centering the x orgin point
3:50 Fixing getting stuck, using one sprite for all collisions, split collision and sprite index into two things
4:52 Jumping and falling, checking ground below
5:55 Jumping and falling, No ground below? Then fall
6:48 Jumping and falling, Ground below? Enable jumping
8:00 Change the sprite_index if we are in air