Simple platformer demo, upcoming livestream

Dev diaries
#1

Hi!

I recently found Defold and started playing with it. I haven’t done anything impressive or particularly special, but I did cobble together a quick platformer, largely cribbed from the platformer example in Britzl’s PublicExamples Repo: https://github.com/britzl/publicexamples; the game (based off a small group of Retro Gaming livestreamers I’m part of) is available at http://chrisplaysgames.com/retrosquadgame/

Over the process, I’ve now learned enough that I’m now actually able to cobble my way through by reading API docs, rather than just copy-pasting lines from other scripts :slight_smile: Next Friday, I’ll be doing a one-hour walkthrough/tutorial on what I did, how I did it, and how you can do the same, during a livestream on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/chrisplaysgamescpg/live), starting at 9:15PM Eastern time.

The process was fun, and I’m happy I was able to produce something kinda nifty. I hope I’ll be able to apply a bit more polish, but I wanted to share what I’ve done.

(I’m working on cleaning up the code for publication as well.)

Thanks for the neat tool :slight_smile:

Chris Plays Games / Christopher Schmidt

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#2

Cool! Well done.

PS I noticed some visual artefacts on the player character. You need to extrude the borders of the images in the atlas containing the player.

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#3

Thanks! I’d seen it as well, but it only popped up today after I changed the size of my canvas in the HTML page itself, so I thought it might be my fault. I’ll republish with extruded borders :slight_smile:

And thank you for maintaining the publicexamples repo! It made a huge difference; without it, I likely wouldn’t have continued playing with Defold after the “GettingStarted” tutorial (since the “Platformer” tutorial didn’t really go far enough towards making something complete).

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#4

This live stream is tonight at 9:15PM Eastern, for anyone who wants to tune in. I’d be happy to see people critique everything I do wrong :slight_smile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h12ouyp6JnU

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#5

Cool, man! I’m unfortunately sound asleep by then—but I guess it’s available for viewing afterwards?

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#6

Yep! I’ll probably clean it up a little bit to trim start/end, and it’ll be uploaded to the channel in full later this weekend – but in the interim, you’ll be able to view the complete archive at the link above :slight_smile:

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#7

This is very cool! Please update this thread as you put up the assets on your website.

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#8

Oh. Right. I should do that one of these days :slight_smile: Had totally slipped my mind; I’ll get something up this weekend!

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#9

@crschmidt Just added the video to www.defold.com – thanks for creating a great tutorial! Please let us know if you decide to make more; we’d be happy to feature them in any way we can.

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