ASM Advanced Game Design

Erik Brown

Meeting 4

Icebreaker

What is your pizza crime?

 

MC next Monday: Ryan

LVL2

Preparations for your game

Maps and mechanics

Work on a detailed plan and visualization of your game:

  • Layout design details
  • Game mechanic storyboards
  • Triggers for sound/music activation


These visualizations should make it clear what happens in gameplay and when it happens.

 

 

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)

 


Finishing the Crash Course demo

We can customize this by:

  • Switching out the background tile
  • Switching out the sprites
  • Experimenting with properties!

 

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 C2: video tutorials page.