ASM Advanced Game Design

Erik Brown

Meeting 3

Icebreaker

Which 3 words would your friends use to describe you?

 


Wired: Brazil's Indigenous Gaming Scene Is On the Rise

 


Reminder

No meeting next Monday!

We'll meet again on Tuesday, June 27

 


"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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MC Schedule

 


 

LVL2

 

Please review your websites!

Let me know if you want any changes.

 


Design office identity

Have a foreperson send me:

  1. Full design office name
  2. Design team names (if their own online identity seems appropriate)
  3. Snapshot(s) of brianstorming notes and sketches


For the site—or each of the sites—I am creating, I'll need the following:

  1. Background color
  2. Text color
  3. Mascot or representative image
  4. Tagline/motto
  5. Professional role(s) for each person

 

 

LVL1

 

Your game designer websites

Send me the following:

  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.

 


Graphics exhibition!

 


Construct 3

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.