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195 votes
Beginner's guide to Construct 2
Sunday, June 26, 2011 - Posted by Ashley
Well done for choosing Construct 2! Let's get started making your first HTML5 game. We'll be making the 'Ghost Shooter' demo game. Try it out here first so you know what we're aiming for: a player who looks at the mouse, moves with arrow keys, and ...
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68 votes
6 steps to play with player's mind
Saturday, December 17, 2011 - Posted by SocialLie
Open your mind, but be CAREFUL!This is a list of 6 mental motivators for human brains, created with the objective of pleasuring and motivating people to take action and to work on life-related jobs. In this case, I apply it specifically in digital g ...
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60 votes
Building a platform game - a beginner's guide
Friday, January 06, 2012 - Posted by Velojet
You'll learn how to:- Best use built-in behaviors- Switch animations: standing > running > falling ...- Test for progress and award pointsBuilding blocks - the objects to insertKey to a platform game are two types of objects: Solids and Platfor ...
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54 votes
Native Expressions in Construct 2
OperatorsYou can use the following operators in expressions:+ (addition)- (subtraction)* (multiplication)/ (division)% (modulo, remainder after division)^ (raise to power, e.g. 5 ^ 2 = 25)& (build strings, e.g. "Your score is: " & score)There are als ...
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50 votes
How to make a Facebook game
Sunday, September 04, 2011 - Posted by Tom
In this tutorial, we'll learn how to add a HTML5 game made with Construct 2 to Facebook, and how to integrate it with Facebook's features. If you haven't already, download the Free edition of the Construct 2 HTML5 game creator and get your game read ...
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43 votes
Delta-time and framerate independence
Monday, October 10, 2011 - Posted by Ashley
Framerate independent games are games that run at the same speed, no matter the framerate. For example, a game might run at 30 FPS (Frames Per Second) on a slow computer, and 60 FPS on a fast one. A framerate independent game progresses at the same ...
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42 votes
How to make a Platform game
Thursday, January 26, 2012 - Posted by Ashley
Construct 2 can make all kinds of 2D games. In this tutorial, you'll be taken through the basics of making a platform game in Construct 2. If you're new to Construct 2 and would prefer to make a top-down shooter style game, check out this alternati ...
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38 votes
Physics in Construct 2: The basics
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - Posted by Ashley
Construct 2 includes the Physics behavior, powered by Box2DWeb. This allows you to have objects moving with real-world physics - here's a demo to show the idea. Physics can make your games really fun and engaging! Here's an overview of how you can ...
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38 votes
Basic Loops and Arrays
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - Posted by cow_trix
This tutorial is under construction! Please tell me if I've gotten anything wrong, or missed something you think is important.In this tutorial we'll look at the basics of arrays and loops in Construct 2. These two elements are quite powerful and you ...
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36 votes
What a game designer needs to know?
Friday, January 20, 2012 - Posted by SocialLie
Many abilities can be useful for a game designer, some of them we can’t even imagine. I can give as an example the study about typography that Jobs has done and ended up as a huge step to computer science at the time. Back to game creation, here I wi ...
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