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Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide

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Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Blender Game Engine is the part of the Blender 3D editor used to create actual 3D video games. It's the ideal entry level game development environment because you don't even need to learn to program. Create a complete game using Bender's innovative logic bricks."Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide" is the ideal introduction to game development. Using only logic bricks, the reader will create a complete game in Blender. By the end of the book the reader will be able to use their skills to create their own 3D games.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Index

Time for action — creating your first game title

There are many ways to start a game, such as creating a picture, making a spectacular title, and so on. As an example, we can join the home screen and place two single texts. In this example, we will add a title for the game and assign a key from the keyboard that you will press to start playing.

  1. Press View | Top in the 3D view, choose Scene in Menu, press the + button, and select New to add a new scene, then rename it as Maintitle:
    Time for action — creating your first game title
  2. Choose Menu | Add | Text. Press the Tab key to work in Edit Mode, and change the default text for the name of the game. In our case, we will use SAVE THE WHALE as the title.
    Time for action — creating your first game title
  3. Press the Tab key to return to Object Mode, and add another text as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action — creating your first game title
  4. Go to the Properties interface. Select the Text tab and increase the Extrude option by 0.1 in the Geometry section, as shown in the next image. Extrude the text if you want volume in the titles:
    Time for action — creating your first game title
  5. Choose Menu | Add | Camera for the top view...