Page 1 of 15 Your First Game Welcome to Game Maker. This tutorial shows you how to create your first game. It will take just 30 minutes to complete and will teach you the important basics of Game Maker. We assume you run Game Maker in Simple mode. (You can see this in the window caption.) If not, click on the File menu and press Advanced Mode to remove the checkmark: In the game we create, some pieces of fruit move around. The player must click on the fruits with the mouse to collect them. For each collected fruit, points are scored. Fast moving fruits give more points than slow fruits. And there are bombs lying around that you should avoid. The game will look as follows: Click on the Next button to go to the next page of the tutorial.