Monday, July 1, 2013

Lets Spell

A new kids game on google play.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elfgames.letsspell

Let's Spell is a fun a engaging way for 5-8 years old to practice their spelling. With each correct word spelled, you earn coins which can be used to purchase a gifts to unlock toys in the prize room. Words range from 3-6 letters, with 5 difficulty levels to choose from.





















































Saturday, June 8, 2013

3 Videos added to Infinite Flyer

I added 3 new videos to the Infinite Flyer course today. 1. Show a different way to achieve the player movement. 2. Shows how to create a title screen, and 3 show how to create a top 10 high score table using local webstorage.
www.construct2tutorial.com to learn more.

Saturday, June 1, 2013

New Construct 2 Course - Making an infinite runner/flyer game.




Videos in this course are:

 
1. Making the background move.
We start off by making the background appear to move for infinity.  This is the corner stone of any infinite runner or flyer type of game.
2. We all need a hero!
We create our hero, add his animations and make him to fly (and fall) using Touch controls.
3. Timer, Coins and Bugs, Oh my!
We create a timer to keep track of how long our player lasts, we add in some coins to collect and a bug that is used for a power up.
4. My first FUNCTION()
Functions are an important part of any programming language, even in Construct 2, where you don't program at all.  Or do you???
5. Birds, Electric Eels, and more functions.
We have to have some bad guys to make the game interesting.  Oh, and I throw in some more function.
6. Have I mentioned how awesome functions are?
Oh yeah, more functions.  They are so darn useful and easy to use.
7. Clean up and increasing difficulty over time.
We clean up the game a bit and add the element of difficulty.  In this game, the game will get increasingly harder the long the player lives.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Friday, May 17, 2013

New Tutorial Poll - Learn Construct 2

www.learnconstruct2.com


New poll on my website asking which tutorial I should do next.

I have just about finished up my second premium tutorial, it’s an infinite flyer tutorial for making games similar to jet-pack joyride.  It should be out in a few weeks.

I would like to get your opinions on what game you would like to see a tutorial on for Construct 2.  Please vote!  

Tuesday, May 14, 2013


Making your own video games may sound like a difficult task.  However, the folks over at Scirra have found a way to make it possible for anyone to create a video game.  Construct 2 is one of the best game maker solutions currently on the market.  With their amazing drag and drop interface you can make games in minutes without any programming knowledge.  How amazing is that!  This opens up a whole new world to people that don't have any programming knowledge at all.   For example, say you are an artist.  You can put your drawings into a game and watch them come to life!  Same goes with composers.  Construct 2 has opened up the world of game programming to anyone that is willing to take a little bit of time to learn their software.  Notice I didn't say learn programming?  That's right, if you learn Construct 2, you can be making games in no time.

The other amazing thing about Construct 2 is it’s all built around HTML5.  What this means is anything you build in Construct 2 will work on any modern web browser.  Including mobile!  That’s right, you can even export your games into native Droid, iOS, Windows 8, and Blackberry apps.  With the help of wrappers like CocoonJS and AppMobi.

I bet you are wondering how you can get started and that it’s probably expensive right?  Well Construct 2 has a free version that allows you to really get your feet wet with the software before jumping into a purchase.  I highly recommend you watch some Construct 2 Tutorial videos as well.  There are a lot out there and the guys at www.LearnConstruct2.com are really working hard to put out great video content and they focus on beginners.  They have free videos and are showing a free preview of their Platform Course where you can watch the first video to see if it’s something that would help you improve your game making.