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Zombie Shooter

A solo student project — a first-person zombie shooter built in Game Maker 8, featuring level-based enemy spawning, weapon pickups with switching, and FSM-driven zombie AI.

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Role

Solo Developer

Tech

Game Maker 8, GML

Genre

First-Person Shooter

01

Overview

A first-person zombie shooter built solo in Game Maker 8 — one of the earliest projects in the portfolio, and notable for pushing a first-person perspective inside Game Maker's constraints, which has no native 3D pipeline.

The game features level-based zombie spawning that escalates across stages, a weapon pickup and switching system, enemy AI with chase and attack behaviours, and player movement and combat built entirely in GML from scratch.

02

Systems Built

[01] — Combat
Weapon Pickups & Switching
Built a weapon system supporting multiple weapon types with distinct fire rates, damage values, and ammo pools — each acquirable as a pickup in the level. Players could switch between carried weapons on the fly, with the active weapon state driving the combat resolution and visual feedback. All weapon logic was authored in GML within Game Maker 8's event-driven architecture.
Multiple weapon types Pickup system Weapon switching Ammo management GML
[02] — AI
Zombie AI & Level Spawning
Implemented zombie enemy AI with chase and attack behaviours — enemies detect the player, navigate toward them, and trigger attack logic on proximity. Spawning was level-driven, with each stage introducing a defined set of enemies at designated spawn points, increasing in number and difficulty as the player progressed through levels.
Chase & attack behaviours Player detection Level-based spawning Difficulty scaling
[03] — Player
First-Person Movement & Combat
Built first-person player movement and combat within Game Maker 8 — a non-trivial implementation given the engine's lack of a native 3D pipeline. Player locomotion, look direction, shooting, and hit registration were all implemented from scratch in GML.
First-person perspective Player locomotion Hit registration Game Maker 8
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Context

Role
Solo developer. Designed and built every system — AI, weapons, spawning, and first-person player controls — entirely from scratch.
Purpose
Student project. An early exploration of first-person game mechanics, enemy AI, and level-based progression — built before moving to Unity.
Tech
Built in Game Maker 8 using GML. Implementing a first-person perspective in GM8 required working around the engine's 2.5D limitations rather than using a native 3D pipeline.
Status
Completed student project. An early piece of work demonstrating the foundations that later fed into more complex Unity projects.