Meeting 5

LVL2

 

Design Document

You will be putting this together and presenting it later today.

Before working

1. Send me the team site link
2. Send me any of your own website revisions

 

Progress Presentation: Monday, July 7

This will include your team progress, and any progress you are making with personal projects.

 

LVL1

 

BoingBoing: How Islam helped Pakistan become an esports hub

 

A counterpart to this video:
Pakistan's gaming industry is the perfect fit for women

 

Your game designer websites

Email me the following, if you haven't already:

1. Designer name (it can be your real name, a gamer name, or an invented name)
2. Slogan/tagline
3. A graphic
4. A background color
5. A text color

* Use hex# codes for color.
** You can send me a background image instead of a color, if you prefer.

erik.brown@asmprograms.org

 

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Character design presentations

Let's view your graphics today!

 

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Construct 3

An example:
Hugo Merchan, Castle of Squirrels

Scirra website

 

Getting access to Construct 3:

1. Go to editor.construct.net
2. Click Free Edition (top right corner)
3. Select Enter Access Code

 

Layout: design view for adding/positioning objects

Objects: programmatic "things" that can be manipulated by code

Objects in Construct 3:

• the game itself (system object)
• programmatic capabilities (such as mouse access, keyboard access, etc.)
• background (tiles)
• images (sprites)

Behaviors: capabilities added to objects

 

Crash course demo

Download game assets: crash-course-img.zip

This demo is also available on video on the Construct video tutorials page.