creating an original 2D game project

 Understanding creative media companies 

Understanding the differences between the different types of companies involved in creative media production and how they contribute to the industry

The companies are classified into listed and unlisted companies based on access to capital every listed company must be a public company

Company

1. Developers: Making games is an expensive job that requires the effort of many people and often costs a lot of money, sometimes in the millions.

2. Publishers; find the development and marketing of a game takes a lot of investment.

3. Exhibitors; the publisher of a game

When a parent company operates and/or owns more than one of the stages of production in a single industry 

When a single-parent company owns other companies or studios across different industries.

After learning about different companies, we then proceeded to learn about different integration models.

Vertical Integration: When a parent company owns more than 1 stage of production

Horizontal Integration: When a parent company own multiple sub-companies

Developing contextual awareness

- Game genre - A video game classification based on its core gameplay rather than visual or narrative features.

games genres

Action

sports

Battle Royale

Horror

fighting

shooter

racing

RPG

platformer

4X

Strategy

sandbox

Platformer- gameplay primarily centered around running jumping and claiming to navigate the player's environment.

Verbs -  Action(s) that a player can do.

Versatile - Multiple actions that a player can do.

Claiming

Running

Jumping

Beating

sonic 1 realized in 1991

sonic 2 realized in 1992

level design workshop

The objective of today's lesson was to create a custom video game level in Super Mario Maker 2 in a group of three.

We had to work together to get a final idea and make it into the game. 

We came up with an idea that would be understood by new players it will help them and teach them how to play the game. 

That was our idea. We had to make it as easy as possible, and that's what came with us. We tried to add more blocks and enemies, but in my opinion, that's enough and easy for the player. 

Here we made it into the game and what would it be like. 

Game Genre
A classification assigned to a video game based on its core gameplay rather than visual or narrative features.

verbs - press, select, drag, drop, hold, push 

versatile verbs - jumping, claiming, eating

Game Maker's Toolbox. (2017). The Secret of Mario's Jump (and other Versatile Verbs). Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7daTGyVZ60I. Last accessed 2nd Nov 2021.

The level we have made for beginners will help them understand how the game works.

The strongest part is that we put so many blocks so we could teach the new players how to jump.

The weakest part was placing the blokes

I would put fewer enemies so it will be easy for the players

 

introduction to construct 3

Construct 3 is a game development platform that allows users to create 2D games it also provides a user-friendly, drag-and-drop interface, which makes it accessible to both beginners and experienced developers. 

I'm using Construct 3 to create my 2D game and also get to know the website more and know how to create a lot of 2D games. 

Windows 

Layout - the layout window is where the user actually designs the game world and adds objects to it it shows the arrangement of all the assets the user has created for example characters, platforms, backgrounds, and objects.

Project bar -  This window displays the entire structure of your game project, including all layouts, event sheets, assets, and other resources it also shows a hierarchical view of your project, where you can organize layouts, event sheets, audio, images, and more.

Event sheet - The Event Sheet is where the game's logic and interactions are created using events and actions it can handle all game logic, such as character movement, scoring, animations, AI behaviour's, and more. 

Properties: The Properties window allows you to change advanced settings of your project, such as layout size, object properties, or the attributes of an asset. You can set the game resolution, background colour, and speed of an object, among other things. This window will help you finetune the core elements of your project.

An object is any element within your game that has a specific function, behaviour, or visual representation. Objects are the building blocks of your game. They can be anything from visual elements like sprites and backgrounds to invisible items like variables or audio. Each object has properties that define how it behaves and interacts with other objects in the game world.

Behaviours are pre-built sets of instructions that you can apply to objects to give them specific actions or abilities without needing to manually code them. They define how objects move, interact with other objects, or respond to different events within the game. 

Planning for a Game Project - Unit 7

 

DDS 2 - How to Become a Game Designer - 26th Nov

Learning Construct 3 part 2

For this lesson, our objective was to watch a guided video in which we had to follow and take in each step to further develop our game, by adding a player health bar, enemy AI, blockers, and collectibles.

The Event Sheet consists of Events and Actions 

for example, where everything happens it is the main part of the website to see your final results.

Construct 3 and my experimentation with it Construct 3 was the best web I have used to create a 2D game I have tried a lot of websites but this one was too easy to use and when I use the website it's easy to get to know how to use it you just have to focus and it would be easy to use. 

Here's my final design. 

  

An Instance Variable is a variable associated with a class's instance (object). Each class object can have its own distinct value for the instance variable.

• Scope: Instance variables are scoped to the object of the class, meaning each object has its own copy of the instance variable.
• Usage: They store an object's state. Each object can have different values for the same instance variable.
• Life Cycle: The instance variable is created when an object is instantiated (when a class is instantiated into an object) and destroyed when the object is destroyed.
• Access: Instance variables can be accessed and modified using a class object.

2. Global Variable

A Global Variable is a variable defined outside of any function or class and can be accessed from any part of the program (including inside functions, classes, and methods).

• Scope: Global variables have a program-wide scope, meaning they are accessible from any function or object in the program unless shadowed by a local variable.
• Usage: Global variables are used to store values that need to be accessed by multiple functions or parts of the program.
• Life Cycle: A global variable exists for the entire lifetime of the program.
• Access: Global variables are accessible from anywhere in the code after they are declared, but they can also be modified by functions if not handled carefully.

To create an in-game timer, I went to the event sheet added a global variable changed the name to leveltime, and changed the type to number the initial description is how much time is left in the game, and then I added a layer (text) I sort out the text in the event sheet the event is every thick  and the action is set text to (“time,”&leveltime). Added another event every 1.0 seconds added action subtract variable is leveltime. Then I added another event compare variable the compression is less or equal to 0 added action rest the variable added another action reset the layout. 

 

This is the evidence to what I have done.

Evaluation 

 For this project, I was tasked with learning Construct 3 to create a 2D game design I was so worried about it because I never did a game design before and I wasn't sure about what to do and how to create the game design.

 Compared to when learning about film, photography or graphic design, I personally think that game design was the most difficult one but when I got to know Construct 3 more it started getting easy and I started trying to put more effort into the work and spend more time doing it. 

The biggest issues I've had when learning about game design and how to use Construct 3 have been with event sheet it's not that nig issues but I didn't understand it that much I was confused about it I watched videos about it and started to understand it and after I got with it.

The most enjoyable part of this learning experience has been to create the map or the design of the game most of construct 3 work was enjoyable and it gave me a lot of experience with game and I used to have no idea about games but this project gave me a lot of experience and it teaches me a lot.

For future projects, the direction I want to go in with my skills is to crate the ideas and designs I can give and work on a very good ideas with my skills and I can go along with the idea I can think of I also need help with developing my ideas I can comminate with other people to get more ideas. 

Overall, when I look at this project I think that I could've done better then that and added more to it and put more effort but it also good that it gave me experience and learned me about the 2D games world it was a very good learning the 2D game design in the future this experience I'm sure it would help me a lot. 

The one skill I will carry forward in to my future work is as I said it would be developing my ideas and the way I think and I will put more effort in my future work because I see that if I can get more and better ideas that would get me a very good future work.