ASM Advanced Game Design

Erik Brown

Meeting 3

Icebreaker

What are 3 things you are grateful for?

 


MC Schedule

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Question for LVL2

Words of wisdom for LVL1, as they learn Construct 3?

LVL2

Team identity

In Classrooms

 

Game plan articulation

Create a digital visualization for a presentation today.

Also, post your ideation/brainstorming materials on a studio wall. These are an important example of how game design is done, collaboratively.

 

 

LVL1

Game design websites

Make sure you have accepted your Google Classrooms invite in order to submit materials.


Send me the following:

  1. Your preferred designer name (it's ok if it's your first+last name)
  2. Your professional tagline
  3. An image for your page
  4. A background color (the hex code next to the # — htmlcolorcodes.com/color-picker)
  5. Text color (the hex code next to the # — htmlcolorcodes.com/color-picker)

 


Construct 3 Crash Course demo, cont.

Scirra website

 


Getting access to Construct 3:

  1. First, register yourself with your ASM Gmail account
  2. Go to editor.construct.net
  3. Click Free Edition (top right corner)
  4. 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 C2: video tutorials page.