Learn Construct 2: Creating a Pixel Platformer in HTML5!

In this lecture Jeremy walks you through:

• How to setup your project file
• How to add our spritesheet
• How to use a tilemap object
• How to organize our layers

In this lecture Jeremy walks you through how to:

• Add our player object to our game
• Import our player spritesheet
• Adding our player behaviors
• Name our animations for dynamic control!

By setting up our player you are ready to interact with our game world! Our player is usually our main way of communicating to anything we setup so don't miss this lecture!

In this lecture Jeremy shows you how to:

• Create custom player movement
• Add collisions to our level

Like everything we do in Construct 2, there are multiple ways to achieve a certain task. Collision objects are no different but what makes this way great is it's simplicity. Once you get through the course, it will take you all of 3 minutes to get setup with collision objects in C2!

In this lecture Jeremy walks you through:

• Setting up our instance variables for our player
• Programming our player_Dir state

In this lecture Jeremy walks you through:

• Creating our player jump code
• Creating our player fall code
• Setting up the correct animations

Adding to our player state engine we will be creating our animations for our player jumping and falling. Both of these are important pieces to any platformer and the way we will approach it is crucial to your continued development with Construct 2. We will be creating a dynamic system to use for our animations that I hope you will use from now on!

In this lecture Jeremy walks you through:

• Creating a faster way for our player to get around!
• Implementing the space bar to create a run cycle
• Utilizing the animation speed to increase our frame playback!

Having our player run is a nice way to setup any kind of additional action. By showing you how Construct 2 will let us easily create whatever we think of, you will be able to extrapolate from here on in!

In this lecture Jeremy walks you through:

• Setting up our player attack
• Creating our player punch projectile
• Understanding Jeremy's own projectile system

Finally we get to some more interaction with our world! This is a very fun lecture on how we can setup a punch based attack. Similarly I use this system for my projectile attacks and it works perfectly! I am very excited to see what you come up with for your player punch!

In this lecture Jeremy walks you through:

• Finishing up our player projectile attack
• Learning how we can use the gravity behavior to have more control over our 'bullet'
• How to use keyboard controls for triggers

We get to continue with our player punch and finish the interaction we started. By utilizing the gravity parameter we can create very interesting punch effects. Hopefully by the end of this lecture you will have many ideas on how you can continue with these kinds of systems and logical way of thinking.

In this lecture Jeremy walks you through:

• Adding a midground layer
• Redesigning our level for a parallax effect

By adding layer parallax we are able to create a very unique effect that is common in today's platformers. Having this effect offsets the layers behind us and lets us get more depth to our game. Also, with this lecture I have gone ahead and redesigned the level we are using. This makes the game feel a lot more complete in case you are wondering what the end outcome will look like!

In this lecture Jeremy walks you through:

• Setting up our enemy AI
• Adding instance variables to our enemy
• Adding our enemy animation
• Beginning to add enemy collision and control

Enemies galore! Now our game has a sense of purpose. Our player can interact with the world and we have an objective to do. Creating enemy AI in Construct 2 is very easy and with the way you are about to learn, you will find that you can create an even more indepth system once you are done!

In this lecture Jeremy walks you through:

• Finishing our enemy AI
• Creating a custom collision object for our enemy
• Adding 2 new instance variables
• Controlling our landing and jumping for our enemy movement
• Adding a dynamic instance variable to our new collision object to control the enemy direction

Finally we will be finishing our enemy AI! Now you should have a great idea as to how you can do simple AI for any kind of level. Since our level is a little uneven it makes for challenging motion but with the help of Construct 2 we are able to take great control over our enemy!

In this lecture Jeremy walks you through:

• Adding our player health instance variable
• Adding our enemy health variable
• Implementing a game over function for our player death (room restart)
• Adding damage for our player attack and enemy attack
• Adding the flash behavior to our player to indicate damage loss

The final piece of interaction is now added to our course! By adding the attack and death controls in this lecture we are able to make a game over screen as well as a way for everything to have checks and balances! This really is the lecture of our game coming together!

In this lecture Jeremy discusses our finished product and congratulates you on getting through the course!

Congratulations!

This course was a lot of information but hopefully you have found it informative and enjoyable to directly making a Pixel Platformer with Construct 2.

In this BONUS lecture Jeremy walks you through:

• Creating a HUD layer [Optional]
• Adding a player health bar
• Adding a punch energy bar
• Control for regaining our punch energy bar

As an extra bonus lecture I have added a way for you to create a HUD or Heads Up Display to show your player what is going on between the player and the enemy. Having a HUD is a great way to communicate with the user and fortunately for us, Construct 2 makes it very easy!