Construct 2

Today we worked on devolving our skills in construct 2, construct 2 is a game engine (“the basic software of a computer game or video game”) which has object orientated programming (“Object-oriented programming (OOP) refers to a type of computer programming (software design) in which programmers define not only the data type of a data structure, but also the types of operations (functions) that can be applied to the data structure”). This made the tutorial we were given a hell of a lot easier than game maker; we made a top down shooter game where you had to survive from enemy aliens. Furthermore we used code for the mouse which was “set angle toward mouse .X mouse .Y “This means the character faces wherever you point your mouse to.

We added monsters and added health bars with variables like “set variable health number 5” then we made the game shoot and do damage “bullet on collision with monster subtract 1” then if we set health to “than 0 the monster destroys and replaces himself with explosion.png” after this we added a score board which we did by System>every tick> set forward angle to mouse. Mouse .y ) Text>set text to score). This made it so every time we killed a monster it would add a point to the score board. Overall Construct 2 from first thoughts was lot easier and more helpful than game maker. Even though it was more helpful than game maker, it also looked a lot better, quicker and smoother for a game. However I do find construct 2 very reptitive for the animations and I thought the platform game would have been easier that what it actually was.

So we learned the top down and platform tutorial and now we have to make our final game for unit 1. What me and Dan decided to do was make a top down horror game. However we our using the top down tutorial as our starting point and buliding off that. So we will create everything ourselves but the only thing we kept was the coding for the game as we wanted to implement the shooting and the lives system Into our horror game. This shows that we got taught how to operate construct 2 and from that we strengthend our skills to develop our final game for unit 1.

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https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/object_oriented_programming_OOP.html