Tomás Brides

Tomás Brides is an educator, instructional designer and author with many years of experience teaching technology and helping beginners understand complex technical subjects through practical, hands-on learning.

Why Code Create Play was written

Beginners who want to make games usually have plenty to read and very little to show for it. The material tends to explain concepts in isolation, leaving the reader to work out how any of it becomes a game.

Code Create Play was written the other way round: one project, built in order, with each concept introduced at the moment it is needed. Over seven days the reader builds a complete 2D side-scrolling shooter in GameMaker and picks up genuine programming fundamentals while doing it.

It is written for people learning on their own, and for classrooms where a practical project needs to fit into a small number of sessions.