ASM Advanced Game Design

Erik Brown, erik.brown@asmprograms.org

Meeting 6

Question

Choose one:

  • If you have eaten an insect (on purpose, or on accident), what was it?
  • If you haven't tried eating insects, then which one would you choose? (raw, or cooked/prepared)

 


Google accounts:
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"Pending status"

Tax forms:
I-9 verification
W4 forms

Program Acknowledgement, Consent, and Release forms (for parents/guardians)
PACR [PDF]
PACR (en Español) [PDF]

Forms are processed by the downtown ASM office each Thursday — the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly.

 


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Work session

LVL2

Work session

Progress presentation:
Thursday, July 3

 

 

LVL1

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.