Video Game Design for Artists

using GDevelop

This is a course that specifically targets digital artists seeking to make games easily and rapidly using GDevelop, a powerful visual programming tool with JavaScript "under the hood".

Schedule LEVEL 1

• Day 1

  • Games made with GDevelop on Steam (also HERE and HERE and HERE)

  • Art tools we'll be using

    • Piskelapp (built into GDevelop)

    • Libresprite (the FREE version of the famous AESPRITE)

  • Game genres (Vote! Pick 2!)

    • Kinetic Novel also HERE and HERE

    • Adventure

    • Platformer

    • Zelda

    • Shooter

  • Asset prep

    • PNG (allows for transparency, lossless compression)

    • Animation frames

    • Tilesets

    • Styles eg 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit

• DAY 2

  • Genre 1 (voted) Creation

  • Special Requests

• Day 3

  • Genre 2 (voted) Creation

  • Special Requests

• Day 4

  • Exporting to web (gd.games, , HTML), PC, Mac, Android

  • Playtesting & Polish

Schedule LEVEL 2

• Day 1

  • Continue previous Level 1 project?

  • Tweens

  • Particles

  • Special Requests

• Day 2

  • Tile maps

  • Physics

  • Special Requests

• Day 3

  • Inventory

  • Special Requests

• Day 4

  • Save Game

  • Final Playtesting & Polish