Chapter 2. Hello World! Construct Style

Now that we know how to navigate around the interface, we can move on to making games. The first, we'll be making is a platformer, such as the classic Mario and Sonic, the Hedgehog games.

In this chapter, we are going to:

• Learn more about sprites, as well as how they can be animated

• Learn how to use the tiled background object to make levels and backgrounds

• Learn how to set the attributes of objects

• Learn what behaviors are and how they affect objects

• Learn what private and global variables are and how to define them

• Use textboxes to display information to the player

• Use events to control the game

So let's get started!

Sprites revisited

We've already covered the creation of a sprite object in Chapter 1, Our First Look at Construct. We'll now learn to create animations for them and get them ready for a real game. These skills are needed for making player and enemy sprites in nearly any game made in Construct.