Make Games With Game Guru Classic

In this lecture we will give an overview of the Game Guru Classic Editor UI.

In this overview we will go over all of the Editor's Menu options.

In this overview we will go over the different navigation in the editor.

Game Guru offers one of the most robust and easy to use terrain editing tools. In this lecture I'll show you how to sculpt and make a world with the Terrain Tool.  Include Grass painting.

• To begin we are going to create a NEW Map (which shows the File options)

• Show Flat Map and Random Map

• Each Time you select Random Map you’ll get a different effect

• So depending on the type of Landscape you’d want for your game you pick the map that best suits. Keep in mind you can always change the height of water.

• Digging down to reveal water

• Show each land tool and what it does and what keys to hold while doing so

• How to pick Texture Terrain

In this lecture we will cover the terrain texture paint tool.

In this lecture we are going to cover how to paint grass on your map.

In this lecture we'll cover how to Test Your Game and cover all some of the player controls.

• Test Mode

• Game Play Controls

• Player Start Marker

• Player Sounds

In this lecture we will dig deep into all of the properties of the Player Marker. So you can control the speed and movement of the player as well as sounds and so much more!

• Making sure grass can be visible Vegetation Settings
  Select from different kinds of grasses

• Select different height and width and density of vegetation

• While you can change the terrain brushes from the terrain 16 panel. Show that, you can also select from terrain themes

• Create A Winter wonderland

• Create A Dessert

• Terrain LOD Settings

• Show how to change the Skybox

• Explain that some skyboxes have moving clouds

• Skyboxes can also affect the color of reflective surfaces and water

In this lecture we will dive deep into the fantastic water settings that Game Guru has tucked away hidden in its Test Mode tab settings.

• First make sure you have water visible in your level. It may show up as blue but know that you can actually change the color of water

• You also have to make sure water is enabled in your level by turning it on in the tab menu

• Change Water Height

• Change Water transparency, reflective

• Other details that can be changed

• Show the way swimming works currently in Game Guru so best to avoid forcing your player to do tasks in water and use it more as scenery. You can make it instant death by the way. Later explained in setup.ini tutorial video.

In this lecture we will go over the swimming controls that comes with Game Guru. It should be noted that the swimming controls in Game Guru Classic are not that good. But you do have a lot of control over how the water looks and so it may still be nice to add some water to your map, for things like rivers, lakes or the ocean.

In this lecture we will go over all the visual settings for your game.

In this lecture we will talk about the different camera settings you can set up for your game. This includes FOV.

- Camera Draw Distance
- FOV

Bloom is required to have a value greater than 0 in order for all post effects to function. We will cover all the cool post process effects you can add to your game.

- Bloom
- Depth of Field

In this lecture we will talk about the Builder option in the editor that allows you to build your own interior structures.

- Builder

In this lecture you will learn about the different types of lights you can place in your level and how to rotate them and position them on your map.

- Area Light
- Point Light

In this lecture you will learn about all the various point markers.

- Check Point
- Start Marker (Re-view)
- Cover Zone
- Floor Zone

In this lecture you learn how to use Sound and Ambient Zones. These are two different types of zones that do different things with audio , when the player steps into them.

- Sound Zones
- Ambient Zones

In this lecture you will learn about story zones which will allow you to add playable videos in your game.

- Story Zones

In this lecture we will lightly go over what are Trigger Zones. Trigger Zones will start a Lua scripting process once the player steps into them.

- Trigger Zones
- Lua Files

In this lecture we will cover two different types of zones. Image Zones and Text Zones. Image Zones let you display a 2D PNG image on the screen when the player steps into a zone you place in your level. A text zone will display a single line of text at the bottom of the screen, when stepped in to.

- Image Zones
- Text Zones

• Static entities and non-interactive (rocks, trees, blockades)

• Add flowers to your existing grass

• Furniture and how to place objects on top of each other

• How to Rotate, Scale and shortcut keys

• How to lock entities and unlock

• General properties of an entity

In this lecture we will go over how to modify the physics of your entities (objects) in your map. The cool thing about Game Guru is every entity (object) comes with specific physical default settings right from the start! So you can just place your items down and see what happens when run right into them.

This lecture will teach you how to modify the physics of the entities so you can make your game feel more unique or realistic.

- Dynamic vs Static
- Weight
- Friction

This lecture is all about weapons and ammo. Its surprisingly easy to create a first person shooter game in Game Guru with just selecting your weapons and ammo and placing them in your map. No coding required.

- Weapons
- Ammo

In this lecture you will learn about the different types of collectables you can place in your game.

- Health Items

In this lecture we learn about the cool item you can put in your game known as the Jetpack!

- Jetpack

In this lecture you will learn about the different kinds of character enemies you can place in your game.

In this lecture we will cover waypoints which allow you to create walking paths for your characters in your game.

In this lecture you will learn how to make a 3rd Person perspective game!

Its important to note that the 3rd person character system doesn't allow for swimming or crouching.

In this lecture we will quickly go over Game Guru Classic's Character Creator. A tool that lets you customize your own NPC's and Player characters.