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Construct Game Development Beginners Guide

By : Daven Eric Bigelow
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Construct Game Development Beginners Guide

By: Daven Eric Bigelow

Overview of this book

Construct Classic is a free, DirectX 9 game creator for Windows, designed for 2D games. Construct Classic uses an event-based system for defining how the game behaves, in a visual, human-readable way - you don't need to program or script anything at all. It's intuitive for beginners, but powerful enough for advanced users to work without hindrance. You never know when you'll need a helping hand exploring its inner workings, or harnessing its raw power to do your bidding.Construct Game Development Beginner's Guide is the book for you if you have ever felt the urge to make a game of your own. Reading this book will not only teach you to make some popular games using Construct, but you'll also learn the skills necessary to continue on and bring your game ideas to life.Starting as a beginner to Construct Classic, you'll be learning to make platform, puzzle, and shooter games, each styled after popular games of their genre. This guide covers everything from creating animated sprites, to using the built-in physics and shadow engines of Construct Classic. You will learn the skills necessary to make advanced games of your own. Construct Game Development Beginner's Guide will lead you on your journey of making games.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Construct Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Time for action — giving our player a life


In video games, a player gets a Game Over when the character they control runs out of lives. Right now, our player doesn't have that luxury, so let's change that. In our game, the player will have a Score private variable to store how many enemies they stomped in that life, while a Lives global variable stores how many lives they have left before they lose.

  1. 1. Open the left menu for our player again. Scroll down to the Private Variables group, and click on Add/Edit to get a window similar to the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Now click on the plus button and create a number named Score. Leave the value of it at 0 and click on OK. Then click on Done in the private variable manager screen.

  3. 3. To finish, make a global variable Lives. To do so, open the right menu, and in the project tab, right-click on the item Global variables and click on the context item Add global variable, as in the following screenshot, when it appears:

    Set the value to 3 and click on...