Week 1

1: Building Top-down Levels

First steps

• Make a new blank game
• Grab the Wonderdot RPG pack from the Marketplace

Build only 3 rooms to get started

• Change background colour of level to black
• Draw walls in tilemap
• Make new tilemap for floors, reorder layers
• Disable collisions on floor tilemap
• Make new tilemap for holes
• Make new layer for props
• Make new layer for player
• Save game

2: Player Controls

Player character and controls

• Place player character in new Player layer
• Add new script to player
• When right arrow pressed
• Set velocity x 200
• Click play to test it (save script)
• Duplicate for all 4 directions
• Play test
• Duplicate 4 blocks for key release
• Set velocities to 0
• Play test
• Constantly, center camera on myself
• Play test
• Save game

Solid props that don’t slide around

• Add script to a prop
• When level starts, set immovable true
• Close script and save “immovable object”
• Add this script to all solid immovable props

Non-solid props you can walk through

• Add script to another object
• When level starts, set physics enabled false
• Close and save “non-solid object”
• Add this script to anything non-solid

⚡ Bonus Activities ⚡

Bonus 1.1: Nicer movement with constantly if key pressed

Bonus 1.2: Solid pushable props