Introduction to Mobile Games Development with Gamesalad from Udemy

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Getting Down to Business with Gamesalad

A series of short assignments to go with each lecture of Section 2. Each assignment adds to the previous so at the end you will have completed your first working Gamesalad project. There is a downloadable zip below that is for use with these assignments.

In Starting a new game project you'll learn:

How to start a new project in Gamesalad
What the different platforms are that you can create games for
What Resolution Independence means and why it's important

In this lecture we will look at the Gamesalad Scene Editor.

You'll learn:

What scenes are and what they are used for
How to add and delete scenes
How to name and organize scenes
What the Stage is and how it's used
Some of the many controls in the Scene Editor

Part 2 of our look at the Scene Editor.

You'll learn about:

On screen controls to play test your games
The Game and Scene Inspectors
The Behaviors, Images and Sounds Libraries

You'll learn:

What actors are and how to use them
How to add actors to your project
What the Actor Editor is and how to use it
What Actor Attributes are
How to add Behaviors to an actor

Part 2 of the Actors lecture.

You'll learn:

More details on Behaviors and how to use them
About prototype actors and instance actors
How to organize your actors within the Actor Inspector

What tags are
Why you'll want to use tags in your games
How to organize your tags

In the Behaviors part 1 lecture we'll cover:

What behaviors are
How to add behaviors to your projects
A few specific behavior examples
The standard vs the pro behaviors
How to set options within behaviors
How to comment your behaviors with titles and notes

In the Behaviors part 2 lecture we'll cover:

How to combine behaviors to build interaction between two actors
How to think logically to build your behaviors in steps
The Rule behavior and it's settings
How to set up conditions and what will happen when those conditions are met or not met

In the Attributes lecture part 1 we'll discuss:

What Attributes are
What some of the default attributes are
How to add your own attributes
Actor level attributes vs game level attributes
The different kinds of attributes (boolean, text, integer, real, angle and index)

In the Attributes lecture part 2 we'll discuss:

Common uses for Attributes
More on actor level and game level attributes

In this Graphics part 1 lecture you'll learn:

How to add graphic images to your projects
What file types and sizes (resolutions) to use
How to place and use images in your projects
What some of the graphics settings do.

In this Graphics part 2 lecture we continue discussing graphics settings in Gamesalad. We'll look at some of the graphics options including:

Horizontal and Vertical Wrap
Tile width and height
The various blending modes available
You will also learn about animation in Gamesalad
In closing I'll discuss the importance of a consisten graphic style in your projects.

In the Audio lecture we'll take a look at:

Adding sounds and music to your Gamesalad projects
What audio file types are supported
The difference between sound effects vs music in your game
How to play the audio once it's added to your projects.

In the Physics Engine lecture we'll:

Discuss physics in Gamesalad
Learn about Gamesalad's built in gravity function
Look at the actors individual physics settings

density
friction
bounciness
drag
angular drag

A handout detailing the various physics settings available in Gamesalad.

In this lecture we begin creating your first full game using Gamesalad, Pong. I'll show you what Pong is (in case you don't already know) and show you the version you will complete by the end of this series of lectures.

In addition to the Pong overview we'll being production of the game by choosing the game platform, establish some game settings and begin building the players paddle.

The source Gamesalad files (complete and empty versions) are available for download for this Pong lecture series below.

In this lecture we'll finish the adding the controls to the players paddle and restrict it's movement between the upper and lower edges of the stage; build the basic controls of the computer controlled paddle; and add the center line to the play area.

The source Gamesalad files (complete and empty versions) are available for download for this Pong lecture series from the first lecture "Make Your Own Pong–The First Commercially Successful Video Game".

In this lecture you will add 'walls' to the outside of play area to give the ball/puck something to bounce off of when it hits the edge of the stage; add the ball/puck; and update the players paddle to serve the ball.

In this lecture you will add a scoring system to the game and add the score display UI (user interface) on screen.

In this lecture you'll fine tune the serving of the ball/puck and begin building the computer paddles AI (artificial intelligence).

In this lecture we get our first bugs and squash them! We'll also tweak the AI we started in the previous lecture and get it working perfectly.

In this lecture you'll update the computer paddle to allow it to take turns serving the ball/puck and update the ball/pucks rules so it doesn't ever get stuck on the X or Y axis.

In this lecture you'll add some sound effects to the game; add some UI messages to the screen; and discuss how you can extend this version of Pong to make it you're own!

In this lecture we will look at and discuss what an endless runner style game is and show you the game you will build in this series of lectures.

The source Gamesalad files (complete and empty versions) are available for download for this Endless Runner lecture series below.

In this lecture we being the endless runner by establishing some initial game settings and start building some of the platforms behaviors and actions.