Meeting 8
MC: Kairo
Tomorrow: Victor
"Pending status"
Tax forms:
I-9 verification
W4 forms
Work session
LVL2
Progress presentation — today!
You will also need to send me the materials you are presenting (graphics, audio, or screenshots of your code), so that I can add these to the Dead Silence page.
LVL1
Your game designer websites
Send me the following, if you haven't already:
- Designer name (it can be your real name, a gamer name, or an invented name)
- Slogan/tagline
- A graphic
- A background color
- A text color
* Use hex# codes for color.
** You can send me a background image instead of a color, if you prefer.
Getting access to Construct 3:
- Go to editor.construct.net
- Click Free Edition (top right corner)
- 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
Image editors
These are helpful if your game graphics include your own photography, or scanned/photographed drawings.
Glitch effects
Online painting
Computer operating systems tend to have some good built-in software, but here are some others.
Walking simulators
A reaction to the usual combat games
A brief history of the "walking simulator," gaming's most detested genre
Assassins Creed, Tourist/Discovery mode
Sixth Station
Based on the film Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki, 2001
Gallery walk game:
"Sans' Day Off"
Download the following to a new folder:
Here is a game-in-progress:
sans-day-off.c3p
Here's what I worked on during the meeting:
sans-day-off_with-walking-animation.c3p
Game proposal
Completion time: approx. 1.5 weeks (7 meetings)
The goal is to view these games on Friday, July 12
Write a proposal for an independent game you would like to build with Construct. Include a visual aid in your document — this can be a character sketch or a level design sketch.
The visual aid can be drawn on paper and photographed, or you can use digital tools like Piskel or Sketchpad
An example: Adriana