ASM Advanced Game Design

Erik Brown, erik.brown@asmprograms.org

Meeting 7

MC: Martin

Tomorrow: Josue

 


LVL2

 

Progress Presentation: Monday, July 7

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

 

 

LVL1

 

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

 


Construct 3

Getting access to Construct 3:

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

 


Finding game assets (graphics)

When you use search engines to find images, include "png" and in the search query. Then click Tools >> Color >> Transparent

Some resources

itch.io

OpenGameArt

CraftPix

MGG—Background Creator

More

 

Image editors

These are helpful if your game graphics include your own photography, or scanned/photographed drawings.

Pixlr

Fotor

Photopea

 

Glitch effects

PHOTOMOSH

ImageGlitcher

Glitchatron

 

Online painting

Computer operating systems tend to have some good built-in software, but here are some others.

Krita

MediBang Paint

 


Platformer demo

This second tutorial will show you how to create a platformer game with multiple screens.

Download game assets: simple-platformer-img.zip

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

Let's add some shooting squirrels!

Download this image to your platformer folder:


Let's add a SDTK!

Download one of these audio files to your platformer folder:
Skyrim Theme Song.wav
Coconut Mall but you have anxiety.mp3
Megalovania but it has no melodies.mp3
Ronald McDonald insanity.mp3