# Following along tutorial gets me a black screen **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Created:** [July 10, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/following-along-tutorial-gets-me-a-black-screen/77443 "2024-07-10T13:29:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Emile\_Parouty](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/emile_parouty/32/36595_2.png) [@Emile\_Parouty](https://forum.defold.com/u/Emile_Parouty)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/following-along-tutorial-gets-me-a-black-screen/77443/1 "2024-07-10T13:29:14Z")
Im following the " War battles tutorial", to a T. At the " Add the map to the game", after Project\>Build I get a black screen, no maps visible. I try to add a player sprite (next tutorial step), Project\>Build, now I see the map, but no player sprite. What’s going on? ---
**Author:** ![britzl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/britzl/32/23_2.png) [@britzl](https://forum.defold.com/u/britzl)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/following-along-tutorial-gets-me-a-black-screen/77443/2 "2024-07-10T15:45:17Z")
That sure sounds strange. Hard to say what is wrong or if maybe you missed a step or if there is an issue with the tutorial instructions. Could you please try to redo it and check if the same thing happens again? ---
**Author:** ![Emile\_Parouty](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/emile_parouty/32/36595_2.png) [@Emile\_Parouty](https://forum.defold.com/u/Emile_Parouty)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/following-along-tutorial-gets-me-a-black-screen/77443/3 "2024-07-10T16:34:56Z")
Yes I did. Got the latest version of Defold (windows), “open from tutorial”, follow the tutorial, build project → black screen. I’m positive there’s an issue with the tutorial. edit: “build html5” works and show the map ---
**Author:** ![Potota](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/potota/32/33404_2.png) [@Potota](https://forum.defold.com/u/Potota)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/following-along-tutorial-gets-me-a-black-screen/77443/4 "2024-07-10T16:39:25Z")
> [@Emile\_Parouty](#): > > edit: “build html5” works and show the map Sounds like a system graphics issue. Please share your hardware details and make sure your graphics drivers are up-to-date. ---
**Author:** ![Emile\_Parouty](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/emile_parouty/32/36595_2.png) [@Emile\_Parouty](https://forum.defold.com/u/Emile_Parouty)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/following-along-tutorial-gets-me-a-black-screen/77443/5 "2024-07-10T16:58:55Z")
|—|—| |Processor|Intel(R) Core™ m3-6Y30 CPU @ 0.90GHz 1.51 GHz| |Installed RAM|8.00 GB (7.90 GB usable)| |System type|64-bit operating system, x64-based processor| Intel HD Graphics 515 Every driver’s up to date. EDIT: if it’s just a hardware issue, how come the map becomes visible after I add the character sprite (next tutorial step)? ---
**Author:** ![Mathias\_Westerdahl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/mathias_westerdahl/32/228_2.png) [@Mathias\_Westerdahl](https://forum.defold.com/u/Mathias_Westerdahl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/following-along-tutorial-gets-me-a-black-screen/77443/6 "2024-07-11T09:29:39Z")
Would you mind zipping up the project, and posting it here, and we can see if we can find anything? (remove the build folder from the zip) ---
**Author:** ![Emile\_Parouty](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/emile_parouty/32/36595_2.png) [@Emile\_Parouty](https://forum.defold.com/u/Emile_Parouty)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/following-along-tutorial-gets-me-a-black-screen/77443/7 "2024-07-11T10:30:41Z")
Ah, like I said in the other post, I already moved on to another engine: I deleted everything ☹ ---
**Author:** ![theagemaway](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/theagemaway/32/38123_2.png) [@theagemaway](https://forum.defold.com/u/theagemaway)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 7:55am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/following-along-tutorial-gets-me-a-black-screen/77443/8 "2024-11-27T07:55:36Z")
I had this same issue, and was able to solve it. I made a long post about it on another thread. Just adding this link in case it helps anyone seeing this > [@Black screen is shown when building](https://forum.defold.com/t/black-screen-is-shown-when-building/68933/8): > > hopefully this helps someone out there on the grand internet: Short story: go to game.project → graphics → OpenGL Version Hint → set “Highest Version Available”. this fixed the issue for me! Long long story: I recently downloaded Defold because I was fed up with Unity, tired of Godot, and not interested in Unreal. Defold seemed to be the only engine that can export to all of the major platforms, so I wanted to give it a try. So I watched hours of tutorial videos, then decided to finally start…