Hi there everyone, and welcome to my blog about game development. Here, I will teach you step-by-step on how to make your own video game. I will mostly use Construct 2 as my tool of trade, but sometimes I'll write something not tool specific.
In this series of tutorial I will make a 2D action adventure game, pretty much like The Legend of Zelda series, but perhaps a bit more simplified than that. I will use sprites and graphics available from open game art (http://opengameart.org ) to make sure I don't break any ownership.
So to start, open up Construct 2 (if you haven't downloaded it, you can visit
Scirra's website) and create a new project (from File -> New). If this is your first time opening Construct 2, you'll see a lot of templates to get you started. For now click New empty project and open it.
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| Templates to work on |
You'll see a big white part in the middle, and some UI on the left and right side of the screen. The white part is your layout, it's the place where you design your game. Because Construct 2 is a drag-and-drop style game making tool, what you see in the layout is what's gonna appear in your game. You can move the scroll bar on the side and bottom of the layout to move around, mouse scroll wheel do the same for scrolling vertically.
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| An empty layout |
To zoom in or out, hold down ctrl and then scroll wheel. It will make it easier to see your game in a bigger picture. While you zoom out, you'll notice that there's a stripe / dash on the layout. That's the window size of the game, that's the limit on what your player will see when they play your game. So any objects outside of that won't be seen (at least initially).
We're going to add something to our layout, but before that we'll download the asset first. As I've said we'll use graphics available from Open Game Art, so go to
this link and download the browser quest graphics (we only need the browserquest-images.7z file). Save the file somewhere you can find easily.
