Constuct 2 Tower defense part 3 Tower selection Video Lecture | Construct Tutorial: Become a Game Maker - Game Development

hey buddies 54 new start and this is our
next tutorial into the next stage of
top-down turret defense games as you can
see it doesn't require a whole lot of
code but start at the menu so we can see
how actually truly runs so this would be
like a mobile setup you have our buttons
here option button there hit play at
level 1 and I've disabled this button
before it used to pop up the actual like
game menu stuff and now I may just leave
it as a pause button so you know in case
you know mom calls dinnertime or
whatever your boss call says hey get
your butt over here quick you tap that
button it's possible whatever and it may
also say if I don't know I'm still
playing around with the button so you
hit this button and these are like pre
assigned you know areas where your
towers are gonna be so one there one
there or just one here one there one
there so you know three or four in this
one you hit you hit this and you get
this up now you get to choose between
these two towers now this one I haven't
actually assigned yet so it's disabled
but the choosing option works so you
know you could have yourself a nobody
called a cauldron power or whatever and
then you have yourself a look at our
arrow tower so we're gonna click the
regular arrow tower and there it is and
I'll make it better serious and see it
there it is and then we can enemies will
you know come down and you can shoot
arrows at them so we're going to go over
that today so eat that we have the menu
and using the menu code also all the
code will be available in this video so
we're gonna hit the level 2 selection
we're going to do that we're into code
it basically is very simple as first
level selection on start of the botton
go to level 1 boom done
now we're going to go back to this once
we finish level one and we're going to
tell it to turn into either a lock you
know a star 2 star 3 stars now we're
gonna go in the level 1 and I'm gonna go
over all the code it's not a ton of
coded this looks like it you will need a
global variable power change and this
will tell us basically in the tower
changing when you're selecting your
towers tell them what to select - or
tell them what to change - ok so on
touched blue button now remember the
blue button is where the towers going to
be you're in to set position of our one
of our menu items this item to where
this item is going to be I use you could
see I've kind of made some stuff and
partially invisible so you'll be able to
see them in the file down below so we're
gonna tell all this stuff is just part
of our in-game menu for a tower choosing
to go to certain predestined areas so
basically something like that would be
we're gonna go back right go back and go
next
what was it I'm gonna get the name of it
real quick it's right 16
so we're going to select sprite 16 and
we're going to tell it to go to set to
another area and we're going to choose
our little blob which is okay with me
and that's how you do it
so you're gonna do that with all your
objects tell them where they go so I'm
also going to say on touch or left click
so yeah it'd basically be make or block
and then we're going to copy that and
we're going to say on touched of one of
the items this would be the the tower
we're gonna have a home position so all
this stuff starts out here and then it
ends up actually going out there so that
it's rendered off seeing their first
actually being rendered at the time and
this is when you know you're flipping
through different items or it's hey I
don't need the menu anymore you you know
you hit an X button or in this case when
you actually select the tower the menu
taps off and when you actually I don't
know exactly if we need this I think I
built this in as a backup is if you
actually select this sprite the tower
sprite it will actually go to sprite
twelve which is the little blue button
alright little yeah little blue button
area and then set system towers
power chain to zero zero is basically a
we have three variables at this point we
have Tower change to one and zero zero
is basically nothing you got nothing up
there's like no menus no tower switching
no nothing tower change one is when we
actually have like the tower of the
arrow tower this one and then tower
change you
excuse me here's when we have the
cauldron tower so when it's set to zero
there's like nothing up on the screen
yeah there everything is set to the exit
exposition which is right here okay so
the next thing is untouched the gold
arrow we're going to set a tower change
to two and then and that's also if
button is I clicked and then we have the
green one which is tower change to one
and then here's the actual changing of
the tower so if tower change equals two
then we're going to set the actual the
cauldron tower to the middle of the
screen
that's right 28 and then we're going to
set the actual tower tower to the X
button or the X area it's that red X
sprite and then we're gonna flip it to
where it's the regular arrow tower is
set to the center of the screen and the
cauldron tower is set to the exit button
and then on this one it says hey if you
if equals tower change equals zero then
send them both over to the exit corner
and then untouched by 21 this is
basically the same
I think this is another backup system
since I was having some bugs but I don't
think I need this anymore
so that actually would be it I'll be
refining it in the next episode and
which we do a switch to the cauldron
tower but it's here's the switching you
select that tower it's there now and
probably the next one worker I'm gonna
add I may just add cauldron Tower and
then we can switch between the two
columns towers and then okay add in
three enemies and then the builder of
the ability for each tower to actually
do something so this tower that you see
right here will shoot an arrow and then
the Colton's Howell will probably shoot
some sort of electrified magic or
something like that and I'll have three
enemies that will walk through an area
and then that will do follow a path and
then I'll enable the pause button so
that one will be shorter but it will be
more refined toward the actual gameplay
and then in the next episode after that
it'll basically be all the gameplay
should be initial I initialized in the
first episode enough force episode but
like the first level so it'll will have
a for a working first level and then
will basically move on from there to
okay we'll go back to like the main menu
that main menu but you know menu
selection a level selection and then
from there we'll move on to the next
level so there should be like two or
three levels with different hardness and
all those different enemies and then
that should cover it for this tutorial
series so I want to cover everything in
this top-down power type setup so
hopefully you guys enjoyed this episode
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