'The Game Maker's Apprentice' shows you how to create 9 exciting games using the wildly popular Game Maker game creation tool. These cover a range of genres, including action, adventure and puzzle games - complete with professional quality sound effects and visuals. It also teaches you all you need to know about game design theory and includes practical examples of how this can be applied to making games that are more fun to play. The book also comes with a CD containing the Game Maker software and all the game projects that are created in the book - including a whole host of professional quality graphics and sound effects that you can use in your own games as you please!