Designing Games with Game Maker - YoYo Games

instance is visible!) The following drawing actions are available. These actions only make
sense in the drawing event. At other places they are basically ignored.
Draw Sprite
You specify the sprite, the position (either absolute or relative to the current instance position)
and the subimage of the sprite. (The subimages are numbered from 0 upwards.) If you want
to draw the current subimage, use number -1.
Draw Background
You indicate the background image, the position (absolute or relative) and whether the image
should be tiled all over the room or not.
Draw Text
You specify the text and the position. A # symbol in the text is interpreted as going to a new
line. (Use \# to get the # symbol itself.) So you can create multi-line texts. If the text starts
with a quote or a double quote, it is interpreted as an expression. For example, you can use
'X: ' + string(x)
to display the value of the x-coordinate of the instance. (The variable x stores the current x-
coordinate. The function string() turns this number into a string. + combines the two
strings.)
Draw Scaled Text
This action is similar to the previous action but this time you can also specify a horizontal and
vertical scaling factor to change the size of the text and you can specify an angle to rotate it.
This action is only available in the Pro Edition.
Draw Rectangle
You specify the coordinates of the two opposite corners of the rectangle; either absolute or
relative to the current instance position.
Horizontal Gradient
This action also draws a rectangle but this time using a gradient color that changes from left