Meeting 5

LVL2

Goals for this week:

• 2 levels finished (placeholders ok)
• Artwork to see
• Music to listen to

Friday is your Progress Showcase!

 

LVL1

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.

 

Construct 2 platformer, cont.

Let's add some shooting squirrels!

Download this image to your platformer /img folder:

 

Here is my demo, which you can upload to Construct 3 in order to see my code:

first-platformer.c3p

 

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Sprite animations

Construct 2 allows animations, but doesn't allow you to use regular GIF animations. Instead, it uses sprite sheets.

Let's start with a GIF: skeleton.gif

1. Download the GIF
2. Open it in Piskel — you'll see all the frames involved
3. Export it as a sprite sheet PNG

 

When you import it as a sprite sheet, you use the Animation frames bar instead of the image-loading icon in your Image editor window.

Construct 2: image and animations editor

Working with sprite sheets in Construct 2

Import Sprite Strip dialog

 

Sprite sheet with multiple animations

Download: sprite-sheet-demo.zip

Eventually, your Event Sheet will look something like this: