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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 — exporting our game


In these next steps, we'll be making our project playable on other computers that don't have Construct installed. This is important to ensure everyone can play our game.

  1. 1. In Construct, open the Project ribbon tab at the top of the screen, as in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Click on the button that says Export to EXE. You will see the following screen. We do not need to check the Enable python option, as we did not use any Python scripting in our game. In most cases, we will never need to use Python in our games.

  3. 3. Click on Next to skip the screen, and we will now see the options shown in the following screenshot:

  4. 4. Click Browse to choose the folder you would like to export the program to. Create a brand new folder named Game, and then enter it before entering the filename MyPlatformer and clicking Save.

  5. 5. Now we return to the following screen. Click on Finish to export the game.

  6. 6. We then see an export bar similar to the following screenshot:

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