making a space invaders game

[bluenose-forever]

i am at college and i have an assessment to do for Game Design and i am trying to make a space invaders game but i can't find any tutorials on how to make it, i have all the sprites and other bits and pieces but i just can't get them in order and i am also using game maker 7 to do this but without success can anybody help me please it would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

[squarebear]

I don't know about game maker 7 but the basics for making a space invaders game would be:

1) Set up the array of invaders (say 6 rows of 15 aliens), set score to 0, lives to 3
2) Allow the player to move left or right and allow him to fire a bullet
3) Move the invaders and allow them to shoot
3) Check player's bullets for hitting an invader/going off the top of the screen
3a) If all invaders are shot, start a new screen.
4) Check the invader's bullets for hitting the player or going off the bottom of the screen
4a) If the player is hit, lose a life and continue. If no lives left, game over.

[Booldawg]

What exactly are you stuck with? If you understand the mechanics of the game and the programming environment then surely its just a case of coding the routines as Squarebear has laid out and bolting it all together.