
Introduction video, what will I learn.?
Download the asset folder and go to the website www.scirra.com to download and install the free program Construct 2
We will open up C2 for the first time and get an understanding for the interface.
Creating new projects, saving the projects and loading saved projects.
We will add a sprite, and explain what a sprite is.
What are behaviours? In this Lecture I will demonstrate basic concepts relevant for the game that we will make.
In this lesson we will take a look at the Event sheet and how it works.
In this lesson we will add an Animation and blow up the Car.
In this lesson we will take a look at the Layer system in C2.
In this lesson we take a look at the Layout and how it can make the differences between a platformer game and a puzzle game.
We will find out the differences between the angles of a compass and the directions of travel in a game.
Open a new project, setting up the layout, adding the background image, adding the boxes and giving them a solid behaviour.
An explanation on collision polygons, and why it is important to use as few as you can.
We will create another Layer (The HUD Layer) and then add the score board backgrounds and score text.
We will add all the other game art IE, the Net, the game over message, and the game over Object.
We now start the coding of our game and finally start to see the game come to life.
We will change our mouse cursor into a net, to catch the dragon.
We will set up our mouse to catch the dragon.
Setting up our Global Variables.
We will add a score system to the game .
We will make the game harder to play by adding difficulty to the game play.
In this lesson we will set the timer to 60 seconds and get it to count down to 0.
We will add a way to restart the game.
We will add a Title /Menu page to our Game.
We will add web storage to the game so that we can save our High score for the next time we play the Game.
In this lesson we add sound FX and Music to the Game.
We will export your game ready to up load to a website.
This course is for beginners in game development and Construct 2. I aim to teach people that have always wanted to create a computer game but never had the knowledge to do so, and walk them through the process of creating their first game using Construct 2 Free Edition.
All assets and art work are provided.
Download the free version of Construct 2 from scirra's website.