Designing Games with Game Maker
Expressions
Expressions can be real numbers (e.g. 3.4), hexadecimal numbers, starting with a $ sign (e.g. $00FFAA), strings between single or double quotes (e.g. 'hello' or “hello”) or more complicated expressions. For expressions, the following binary operators exist (in order of priority):- && || ^^: combine Boolean values (&& = and, || = or, ^^ = xor)
- < <= == != > >=: comparisons, result in true (1) or false (0)
- | & ^: bitwise operators (| = bitwise or, & = bitwise and, ^ = bitwise xor)
- << >>: bitwise operators (<< = shift left, > > = shift right)
- + -: addition, subtraction
- * / div mod: multiplication, division, integer division, and modulo
Note that value of x div y is the value of x/y rounded in the direction of zero to the nearest integer. The mod operator returns the remainder obtained by dividing its operands. In other words, x mod y = x - (x div y) * y. Also, the following unary operators exist:
- !: not, turns true into false and false into true
- -: negates the next value
- ~: negates the next value bitwise
Example
Here is an example with some assignments.
{
x = 23;
color = $FFAA00;
str = 'hello world';
y += 5;
x *= y;
x = y << 2;
x = 23*((2+4) / sin(y));
str = 'hello' + " world";
b = (x < 5) && !(x==2 || x==4);
}
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