Tutorials for beginners

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Hi all you fans of Defold !

I’ve started programming in the late 80’s because of gaming. But I have never created a game of my own.

Now, with Defold I can feel that I can do it. I’m a big fan but I’m struggling to get started.

I was following CS50 Pong classes - they use Löve2d. I was trying to recreate Pong with Defold but I get stuck a lot. I know that there is a Pong sample that is pretty much the same. But I feel that I’m missing some basic knowledge of the basics.

Do you have a good tutorial suggestion for me to get started? My goal is to develop some casual mobile games.

Thanks !

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We have a bunch of tutorials (not as many as I’d like) here:

The small examples can also be quite useful when you need to learn basic concepts:

And then we also have some good video tutorials from Games from Scratch and TactxStudios

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Here’s a super-ghetto version of Pong which should explain how certain things are setup.
Pay special attention the group and mask fields on the collision objects of each game object.

Let me know if you have questions on it. It’s not a complete version of pong just something I hammered together while hammered :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thanks @britzl for your reply and all valuable links. I’ll spent some time on them.

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Thank you @Epitaph64. I’ll take a look.