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Learning Construct 2

By : Aryadi Subagio

4.3 (7)

Learning Construct 2

4.3 (7)

By: Aryadi Subagio

Overview of this book

If you want to make your own game but don't know how to start or don't have the technical skills to do it, then this is the book for you. You don't need to have a programming background to understand the concepts explained.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Downloading and Understanding Construct 2

1. Downloading and Understanding Construct 2

About Construct 2

Navigating through Construct 2

Creating game objects

Saving your project

What is an event system?

Using a license

Summary

2. Creating Your First Game Design

2. Creating Your First Game Design

Defining a game

Drawing the flow of the game

Making game mechanics

More references for game design

Game-design books

Summary

3. Creating Diverse Player Experiences with a Flappy Bird Clone

3. Creating Diverse Player Experiences with a Flappy Bird Clone

How Flappy Bird works

Making our own Flappy Bird game

Learning random generation

Adding collectibles

Summary

4. Making a Breakout Clone

4. Making a Breakout Clone

Creating the design

Setting up our layout

Understanding constant variables

Ending a game

Summary

5. Making a Platformer Game

5. Making a Platformer Game

Preparing the level

Learning about physics

Joining two objects

Types of physics engines in Construct 2

Summary

6. Creating a Space-shooter Game

6. Creating a Space-shooter Game

Setting the stage

Storing data in Construct 2

Storing data in the player's machine

Summary

7. Making a Battle Tank Game

7. Making a Battle Tank Game

Setting up the layout

Making enemies smarter

Summary

8. Debugging Your Game

8. Debugging Your Game

Bugs and their types

Using Construct 2's debugging tool

Different levels of bug importance

Summary

9. Mastering the Best Practices

9. Mastering the Best Practices

Applying common best practices

Using technical best practices

Using your memory wisely

Summary

10. Publishing Your Game

10. Publishing Your Game

Exporting to the Web

Publishing to desktop

Publishing to mobile platforms

Summary

Index

Index

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the features of Construct 2, its ease of use, and why it's perfect for people with no programming background. You learned about Construct 2's interface and how to create new layers in it. You know what objects are and how to create them. This chapter also introduced you to the event system and showed you how to write code in it; the upcoming chapters will explain the event system in more detail.

Now, you are ready to start making games with Construct 2! However, before jumping into this, you need to know how to make a good game. That is why you're going to learn how to make a good game-design document in Chapter 2, Creating Your First Game Design.

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