Scratch

This tutorial requires a basic to intermediate knowledge of using Scratch.

Platform games seem to be a very popular type of game on Scratch, but many games I have seen are poor in quality. In order to make creating a platform game easier and with higher quality, I made a platform game engine (a game engine is a "starter" for a game; it helps you get started on your game without having to dive into complex coding), but it doesn't have seemed to have been noticed much. So to spread the word and help other people, I'm making this tutorial


STEP 1:

Download my Platform Game Engine. The latest version can be found here:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/S65/28718


STEP 2:

When you open the project, you'll see something like this:



Ignore all the sprites except Sprite2 and Sprite7. These are the essential ones. The level is in the costumes of Sprite2 and Sprite7.

It becomes necessary at this point to explain a confusing part of my platform game engine. A 4-costume level would be composed of 4 parts:

1,2,3,4

Sprite2 only contains Part 1 and Part 3, and Sprite7 contains only Part 2 and Part 4.

However, after you figure out this, level editing is as easy as pie.


STEP 3:

Now just change the costumes or add new ones to change your level.



And that's all you need to do to edit the level, no complicated stuff necessary. If you want to make a goal to your level, that's where adding on to the code comes in and intermediate knowledge of Scratch is needed.

Have fun! Hopefully this will open the doors to much higher-quality platform games and Mario games.

Last edited by S65 (2007-10-23 20:37:42)