#madeinconstruct

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Sprite Fonts are tricky to figure out for two reasons

1. Making Sprite Fonts are time consuming in Construct 3 - there are a bunch of tools that are meant to speed up the process like ShoeBox and Codehead’s Bitmap Font Generato, and Im sure there are many more - but those tool require some level of learning.

2. Getting the fonts to read correctly next to the coin was a bit more frustrating especially with the limitations that Im trying to hit with this demo.

I finally got most of it working though, and hooked up the Score to display the number of coins collected dynamically (phew)

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Interesting bug when the scene gets initialized.

So here’s what’s happening

When the player’s X position is greater than the height of the screen (in this case above y > 667 pixels) the following happens

the player object gets destroyed

the system is instructed to reset all global variables including high score, position of the scrolling background, position of the randomly generated clouds (not seen in this gif), and position of the randomly generated coin

the system is then instructed to Restart the Layout which is why Absurb Birb appears right in the center of the screen.

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Set up the Background to scroll, but the way it’s done is pretty rudimentary and highly un-optimized.  Doing the fast and dirty approach helps for the moment. This scrolling BG feature will be addressed later ;)

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Completed the player’s 4 animation cycles

Idle 

Confirm

Walk

Run

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Things to remember the next time I am working on a Construct3 Project - Organize everything so it makes sense.  Took a pass at standardizing all the layers, and Project folders and objects. I also made a template Layout with the same Layer names so I can easily create the next layout with ease.  Though this took me quiet a bit more time than anticipated, Im glad that this helped define future project pipelines using Construct3 

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Player Controls are finally functioning

Player on-boarding prompt 

Wall collisions are in, though I might have to take an optimization pass at this towards the end 

Learnt how to assign a Boolean Variable to re-orient Player character 

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Flushed out the hero character and started work on some animation cycles 

Idle 

Walk 

Congrats / Complete 

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this demo now has randomly assigned collision objects. Another feature worked on is the introduction of a sound effect, every time the red virus hits the walls / collision object