Construct 2 Simple platformer (part1) Video Lecture | Construct Tutorial: Become a Game Maker - Game Development

everybody in this 54 NuStar and we're
going to do our introduction into simple
simple construct to platformer game now
if you see my first video you know the
basic setup and now we're going to do an
actual simple construct to platform this
will be for the PC and then after a
finished PC version I'll set up a a 1
video on how to convert it from PC to a
android control setup because in this
game engine it's very very easy to then
import the controls for Android and then
just play it so I'm going to show you
basically what we're going to do and
where to start from scratch okay so I
have three layouts I have the menu I
have the layer net layer button menu so
that mini selection it would be the
level selection we're going to have
layer level 1 2 3 4 and continue on
probably just you know 812 levels and
then you know you go as soon as you
finish one level you can unlock the next
level um if you have not unlocked you
know but like okay level one will always
be unlocked but if you don't finish
level one you cannot unlock level two
that sort of thing and then level one
will be a very very simple more of an
introduction into the game of you know
how much health you have how many you
know dog bones you have collected and
then and then enemies killed all I need
to put in there and then basically I
don't know if you can see this but it's
basically I'm at largest so hopefully
you can see it it's basically a very
large dog bone that you need to collect
basically we're collecting huge gigantic
dog bones and I'll put a link to these
sprites and game objects and the link
below so that you guys can use them I
got them at open game art calm and if
you go there I'm sure you'll see these
if you look under their 2d tab
but enough of that for now and I'm going
to pop this down and I'm going to pop
open a new construct too so we can
continually go back for this too so I
can reference it for you guys so I'll
see you in one second guys okay guys and
we're back and this is an empty
construct to seen I'm now going to say
new new new empty project with no new is
basically it's blank so we're going to
go back to the menu on this one and I'm
going to say okay my layout is this
basically 720 by 480 so I'm going to
copy that and then I'm going to go into
the other one click on this little sky
blue go there and then there we go now I
chose that did the fact that you know I
once this is the min you cannot scroll
run or anything like that you're just
going to see this but what I also did
was I go to project properties and I hit
view I also place it there the reason
why is hopefully you can see this island
zoom in actually is that there's this
little dotted line and it's basically
your view what you can see at the time
now normally it says okay the characters
there you can start scrolling around we
want to enlarge what you can see so
we're going to go to view windows size
boom and suddenly the dotted line
disappears and we could see everything
now I'm going to start importing objects
insert new object we're going to insert
a background of the doggy graphics and
actually that's part of a different
project so I'm actually going to have to
add image and save that image to dougie
graphics and I'm just going to say that
sky I'll put a link to where I got the
sky down below and why's that
and
let's see platform tutorial perfect sky
there we go
so this is our sky and as a tileable
background image we can just you know
size of any size but I'm going to you
know size it to which just outside our
view range and I'm going to go back here
so doggie days we need to add so we're
going to insert a new object and shirts
right put a sprite there I'm going to do
something real quick I'm gonna go to
properties on these things change that
paint preview
there we go view medium icons
yes and now you guys can see them what
I'm doing okay so I don't have to logo
here so I'm going to export that to edit
animations save reasons I'm doing this
because I'm not recording on the usual
computer that I am build my games on
rooms being used by somebody else so I
have to use somebody else's computer so
we get doggie days right there and then
I need to export this button and this
button has three animations actually
just to add three redid one one's a
button release a button push and a
default so basically default when you
enter the game you push the button and
when you release the button so I'm going
to export those so I'm going to have
default I'm going to yea say that one
second guys I'm a little under the
weather so my brain is kind of hard so
okay so it's basically button D fault
say this PNG button push save that
button push save that and a button
release
and you always want to label stuff
always so insert a new object we insert
a sprite and then we're going to open
that and I'm going to do button default
and then we're going to add some
animations rename button push add
animation button release so okay for the
button push we're going to put in the
one where it looks like it's being
squashed in the button release it's as
basically button default but I actually
have a button push okay
now we're good there we're going to zoom
in control mouse wheel and so we're
going to tell this thing and the in
vinci tis basically all the where all
the code goes so we're going to actually
do some coding now go to layout click
write insert new object and we actually
wanted you touch that touch control
let's say if you're actually doing
mobile devices but you want a mouse
insert new object and keyboard so right
click and import mouse control and
keyboard so it's basically mouse mouse
object click we're going to click on one
sprite two and then we actually we need
to rename this we always name everything
I find it very good especially when you
have it you know sprite one two three
four and you're like oh my goodness so
name button and then we're going to
rename this one logo rename this one I'm
going to keep it tiled background but
I'm also going to do an underscore sky
blue so actually know what this is and
then we're going to go to
pop this up so we actually know the
names go to evince sheet pull this other
way so you can see so okay it default is
always going to be a button push right
you know default is not button push but
button up and so on left click button we
want the set animation to be we always
want parenthesis and then type in
between them button push and play from
beginning done and then basically we're
going to copy this but we're going to
change some stuff VH will copy and we
have to just put an edge and again so
button unbuttoned released we want the
button to set animation to button
release so basically a lot of fun
another reason why I have this up is I
would actually before I did this I would
actually just copy paste button release
done and what X off this so when we
click on it it's going to its default
gonna look like basically button release
you know it buttons up when we click on
it it's going to be button push when a
but press down and then when we release
it it's going to go back to button
release so actually let's the layout
so there we go we are pushing it it's
working now and so we're going to excel
fat and now our next thing it to do is
and do another we're going to just do a
text now basically push ply or something
like that the wrong item play and then
we want the font to be different so I'm
going to size up to 22 now I'm going to
go look for my fonts see Agent Orange
done
showing okay listen I have to go bag too
sighs you up
usually if it disappears like that it
just means it's gotten a little bit too
big and there's our play button and so
if we go home and we hit layout run
layout and we just you know we can still
click it but that's how I want the font
to be a little bit higher up as it looks
like it was off the button there we go
now we're good now hmm we want to add
another layout so you go over here and
you see the word layout with a little
folder next to it click right add layout
and it's in a pop up a little note box
saying do you want to add an event sheet
you always want to add an event sheet so
each layout will have its own event
sheet okay now we're going to pop up the
other game and we're going to go the
layout - and we're going to copy the
layout size and then we're going to go
back to this one and if I'm right yes
it's just a basic same layout and edit
emissions and then we're going to save
this thing so it's just black they did
back ground and then blue button
blue button alright yeah in part two
well I'm going to show you more of the
button so when you actually finish it
you know it'll say checkmark and all
that stuff okay so let's insert an
object because my black background set
large enough I'm going to do it as a
sprite and then just stretch it and then
set it to the background okay see orders
into the back insert an object and we at
this point we're just going to just
basically deal with it as a button so
that's not why that's I'm notnot too
worried and the size of the button is
100 by 100 so we want a 100 comma 100
there's the button so we go to layout 1
we click this and then we go to the
layout 2 now we're going to go back to
layout 1 go to even cheat and it's
basically when mouse an object clicked
and we could actually do it up here um
but I you know I'm actually going to
show you both ways just make sure you
understand on object click and we're
going to click the button done go to
little gear and go to layout and we want
to go to layout - is it done so you
could also do that here where it says
add action it says we already have some
life hat so we're going to go with this
and just go to layout - so and I
actually prefer that even though
sometimes it does get kind of messy is
it means always up to you it's always to
include another option as long as it's
not going to mess up some other code so
but here it's kind of joint object joint
objective on object left clicked
put push button and actually we
you move it here because we want to see
the animation of the button being
clicked so on object left clicked set
animation of the button to push on
release though we're going to go to
layout two but we're also going to go to
see the animation of the button release
so we're going to go lay out one and
we're going to play the game we're going
to push it but we could see the
animation see boom so I kind of prefer
that so we're done with you know layout
one in the event sheet one now we're
going to be working on layout two and
Eve event sheet 2 basically all we're
doing here is very simple for right now
and this part one tutorial is if mouse
object click sprite to done and actually
we're going to set this as rename as
level one button because it's not
actually level one it's telling us to go
to level one we're going to actually
just include another add layout yes add
even sheet and this is actually our
first layer our first level so when we
on left click on left button clicked on
level one button we're going to go to
system go to layout go to layout three
so as soon as we click this we're going
to be done so let's try out the whole
thing and dog-days push play
push button on that and suddenly we're
on level three no a little three layer
three and just you know some things that
you can add like here I put some
decoration in and actually I'm going to
copy this
copy and then I'm just going to paste it
here so you know it actually looks kind
of pretty not pretty much it looks real
like you actually put some effort into
it which people want to see when I play
your game especially if it's simple on
this day okay if it's simple it must you
know that person must have put a lot of
work into it to make sure it does play
good so hit play and there's level one
and we can put like a little level one
font up or you know because we're going
to have like you know three buttons
across and I'm thinking three zero three
down or just two down
so like eight levels you know people are
going to say okay that's in all level
one two and three or you could have
numbers on it like for example we can X
off that we acts off that like right
here what we can do is click right into
a new object a text put place it right
over there and just put a page in orange
22 regular done and then we're going to
just put one but since that's kind of
small I'm actually going to increase
this to maybe the 40s or try 70 okay so
it's just a wee bit too big so I'm going
to pop this to 64 and there we go that's
our size it's a wee bit big but at will
actually fit for what I'm doing so
people know that's level one so we go to
layer one we hit play dog-days play play
the fonts a little coffee eh sometimes
you gotta fix that so we know it's level
one push play level one boom and on
level one we're actually going to put
some instructions so people know you
know
basically what we're going to be doing
but that's it for this tutorial on you
know this part of the tutorial on how to
do a platformer I'm Clark - we're
actually build the level make things a
little bit nicer and then we're going to
actually put in some character movement
so when the character moves no he
actually moves around and it's a
platformer run and that there's enemies
and then there are some you know objects
that he collects so hopefully you
enjoyed eight the like button and stay
tuned for part two see you later guys