Code-less Game Design Workshop

Preface

1. Distribution Permission
2. Forewords
3. Disclosures
4. Disclaimer
5. Workbook Content
6. About this Workbook
7. How to Read & Use this workbook:
8. Viewing the eBook:
9. External Links
10. References Used
11. Your newly obtained skills …
12. More Resources
13. Programming Courses
14. ICode-less Game Design Workshop

1Workshop Overview

1. 1.1Step-by-step tutorial in 12 sequential lessons.
2. 1.2References:
3. 1.3Introduction to the Game Design System™
4. “Breakout” Gameplay Concept
5. IIPart II: Construct2 (C2) Production

2Lesson 1: Game Project Launch

1. 2.1About Your Project:
2. 2.2Project Settings:
3. 2.3Configuration Settings
4. 2.4Design Consideration: CMS, PWA, or SWPA!
5. Creating a C2 SWPA Game Version?
6. FYI: Creating a C2 CMS or PWA Game Version?
7. 2.5Comparing your code

3Lesson 2: Scaling Objects & Layouts

1. 3.1Researching Your Competition
2. 3.2My Evaluation
3. Competitor’s Game #1:
4. Competitor’s Game #2:
5. 3.3Next steps

4Lesson 3: Loading & Placing items.

1. 4.1Lesson Instructions
2. From the Manual: How to avoid “JANK”
3. Serif vs Sans-Serif:
4. Using Web Fonts inside a Text Object

5Lesson 4: Game Management

1. 5.1Inside The “Game Loop”
2. 5.2Game Mechanics Structure
3. 5.3How to Create Events
4. 5.4Download Lesson 4 “.capx” file

6Lesson 5: Bouncing off the walls.

1. 6.1Game Set up
2. 6.2Adding User Interface (UI) Controls
3. 6.3Download Lesson 5 “.capx” file

7Lesson 6: Play Ball!

1. 7.1Ball “… in a China Shop”
2. Ball’s “Bull”—et Behavior
3. Using Angles in Construct
4. 7.2Inspecting the Walls
5. 7.3Modify the Ball’s Initial Direction
6. 7.4Modify a Gamer’s “Strikes”
7. A Better Design Option
8. 7.5Adding a HUD Layer
9. Layers inside a Layout
10. 7.6Lesson Instructions
11. 7.7Download Lesson 6 “.capx” file

8Lesson 7: Build the playing field!

1. 8.1Building a Game Grid.
2. Brick Inspection
3. Construct Export Optimizations Performed
4. Common Causes of Poor Game Performance
5. Creating “too many” objects
6. Manual Brick Deployment
7. 8.2Correcting Minor Design Problems.
8. Fixing Brick Animation frames
9. Fixing Brick and Ball Collisions
10. 8.3Tracking the Gamer’s “Score & Misses”
11. 8.4Download Lesson 7 “.capx” files

9Lesson 8: Adding “Game Lost or Won” Scenes!

1. 9.1Brick Inventory
2. “Game Finished” Scene(s)
3. Determine Rules for “Game Won”
4. Determine Rules for “Game Lost”
5. 9.2Global Objects & Layouts
6. 9.3Download Lesson 8 “.capx” file
7. IIIPart III: Construct3 (C3) Production

10Lesson 1: Game Project Launch

1. 10.1About Your Project:
2. 10.2Project Settings: Color Theme, Start-up & Display
3. 10.3Configuration Settings: Advanced & Editor
4. 10.4Design Consideration: CMS, PWA, or SWPA!
5. Creating a C3 SWPA Game Version?
6. FYI: Creating a C3 CMS or PWA Game Version?
7. 10.5Comparing your code

11Lesson 2: Scaling Game Objects & Layouts.

1. 11.1Researching Your Competition
2. 11.2My Evaluations
3. Competitor’s Game #1:
4. Competitor’s Game #2:
5. 11.3Next steps

12Lesson 3: Loading & Placing items.

1. 12.1Lesson Instructions
2. From the Manual: How to avoid “JANK”
3. Serif vs Sans-Serif:
4. Using Web Fonts inside a Text Object

13Lesson 4: Game Management.

1. 13.1Inside The “Game Loop”
2. 13.2Game Mechanics Structure
3. 13.3How to Create Events
4. 13.4Download Lesson 4 “.c3p” file

14Lesson 5: Bouncing off the walls.

1. 14.1Game Set up
2. 14.2Adding User Interface (UI) Controls
3. 14.3Download Lesson 5 “.c3p” file

15Lesson 6: Play Ball!

1. 15.1Ball “… in a China Shop”
2. Ball’s “Bull”—et Behavior
3. Stepping bullets (quoted from C3 manual)
4. Using Angles in Construct
5. 15.2Inspecting the Walls
6. 15.3Modify the Ball’s Initial Direction
7. 15.4Modify a Gamer’s “Strikes”
8. A Better Design Option
9. 15.5Adding a HUD Layer
10. Layers inside a Layout
11. 15.6Lesson Instructions
12. 15.7Download Lesson 6 “.c3p” file

16Lesson 7: Build the playing field!

1. 16.1Building a Game Grid.
2. Brick Inspection
3. Construct Export Optimizations Performed
4. Common Causes of Poor Game Performance
5. Creating “too many” objects
6. Manual Brick Deployment
7. 16.2Correcting Minor Design Problems.
8. Fixing Brick Animation frames
9. Fixing Brick and Ball Collisions
10. 16.3Dynamic Brick Deployment
11. 16.4Tracking the Gamer’s “Score & Misses”
12. 16.5Download Lesson 7 “.c3p” files

17Lesson 8: Adding “Game Lost or Won” scenes!

1. 17.1Brick Inventory
2. “Game Finished” Scene(s)
3. Determine Rules for “Game Won”
4. Determine Rules for “Game Lost”
5. 17.2Global Objects & Layouts
6. 17.3Download Lesson 8 “.c3p” file
7. IVPart IV: Expanding this Prototype

18Lesson 9: Adding Unique Features.

1. 18.1“Play Again?”
2. Reset the Global Variables.
3. 18.2A Better “Game Start”
4. 18.3Integrating Multiple Languages
5. Content languages market position report.
6. Compare Who uses the Internet as compared to their language.
7. 18.4Extra Balls? — ¡Tiene cojones!
8. 18.5Massive Multi-Player Online Game (MMoG) Mode
9. 18.6Bricks that Live?
10. Using “Families”
11. Performance Tips, for Families, Behaviors & Animations.
12. 18.7Ball Modifications?
13. 18.8Touch & Mouse Controls
14. 18.9More “Eye-Candy”?
15. 18.10Game Count-down Timer
16. VStarting Your Own Game Studio!

19Lesson 10: Randomizing the game area

1. Lesson Instructions

20Lesson 11: One “Game” to Rule them all …

21Lesson 12: Exchanging Artwork Capstone

1. 21.1Exchanging “Balls” for “Boomerangs”
2. 21.2Horse Artillery Commander — a Napoleonic Battle Campaign
3. 21.3“Battle of Helm’s Deep”!
4. 21.4Goblin Raiders
5. 21.5Baseball?!
6. 21.6WWII Bomber Squadron
7. 21.7Special Forces Patrols
8. 21.8The Death Star
9. 21.9Secret Agent
10. 21.10RPG Avatar Generator
11. VIWhat’s next?
12. “How to publish a game on the web??”

22Game Distribution & Marketing

1. 22.1Introduction: 8-Step Deployment Method.
2. 22.2Selling Directly — The Advantages
3. Shareably (SBLY) looking to rent your games
4. 22.3Book Review Protocol
5. 22.4Tell the world about your game!

23Conclusion

24Bonus Development Content

1. 24.1Certification Examination
2. Appendix

More Resources …

1. “You don’t know JS Yet” by Kyle Simpson
2. Construct Demos

Appendix: Game Developer Tool Kits

1. Artwork Resources
2. Selling your Game Artwork & Assets
3. JavaScript Garden

Additional Appendices

Appendix: Making WebXR Games!

1. Appendix: Safe JavaScript Using OLOO
2. JS Objects: “TL;DR”
3. 15.2.2 Inside the body of a class definition
4. Deeper Dive: JS Delegation (aka “Inheritance”?)
5. The old way
6. “Object-Oriented JavaScript Pattern Comparison”
7. ECMA-262 7th Edition / June 2016
8. Objects Linking to Other Objects (OLOO)
9. Compare your code
10. Object.create
11. Exercise Lesson 9:
12. Exercise 1
13. Game Singletons
14. Deeper Dive: Object Manipulation objects in ES5/6
15. Lesson Summary
16. Resource References: