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How to Add Gamepad Controls to your Game

How to Add Gamepad Controls to your Game

PublishedNov 20, 2024

Length9 min

TopicTutorials and programming

128K subscribers
189 videos
172.3K views

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Learn how to add gamepad support to the Space Rocks game in GameMaker using GML! We’ll walk through detecting gamepads, handling movement, shooting, and combining keyboard and gamepad inputs....

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