Introduction, Installation and Overview
- What is game development and what is Gamesalad?
- Install Gamesalad for Macintosh
- Macintosh Interface Overview And A Few Words About The Windows Version
Assets for the Course
- Macintosh Asset Files
- Windows Asset Files
Getting Down to Business with Gamesalad
- Section 2 Assignments
- Starting a new game project
- The Scene Editor part 1
- The Scene Editor part 2
- Actors part 1 (sprites and images)
- Actors part 2 (sprites and images)
- Tags, organizing your actors
- Behaviors, actions and scripting part 1
- Behaviors, actions and scripting part 2
- Important Concepts – 1
- Attributes part 1
- Attributes part 2
- Attributes details handout
- Graphics part 1
- Graphics part 2
- Graphics details handout
- Audio, sounds and music
- Physics Engine
- Physics details handout
- Important Concepts – 2
You're first full game — Classic Pong!
- Make Your Own Pong–The First Commercially Successful Video Game
- Pong 2–Adding the paddles
- Pong 3–Add the boundaries and the ball/puck
- Pong 4–Scoring system and display
- Pong 5–Artificial Intelligence
- Pong 6–Tweaking the AI
- Pong 7–Allowing the computer to serve the ball
- Pong 8–Adding some UI messages and finishing the game
Creating your own endless runner style game!
- Endless Runner 1–What is an endless runner game?
- Endless Runner 2-Set up and begin building some platforms
- Endless Runner 3–Continue building the plaftorms
- Endless Runner 4–Randomize the platforms as they appear on screen
- Endless Runner 5–Control the platforms placement and add the player
- Endless Runner 6–Adding the player and some graphics
- Endless Runner 7–Animate the player and scroll (parallax) the background
- Endless Runner 8–Add the obstacles
- Endless Runner 9–Scoring and final game details
Build a physics puzzle game!
- Physics Puzzle 1–Physics puzzle game demo
- Physics Puzzle 2–Set up and adding some actors
- Physics Puzzle 3–Background scenery and scene building
- Physics Puzzle 4–Break the crates with a particle effect
- Physics Puzzle 5–Start the main character
- Physics Puzzle 6–Winning or losing
- Physics Puzzle 7–Adding the UI button controls
- Physics Puzzle 8–Finish the UI and build a splash screen
- Physics Puzzle 9–Level building
Conclusion
- The End?
Bonus Material
- Macintosh and Windows Interface Comparison
- IMPORTANT Information for International Windows Users
