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Construct 2 – Step by Step

By Shahed C on July 14, 2014

I have been teaching students and professionals using Construct 2, and would like to share my step by step tutorials in the following presentations.

You can find the complete presentation material in the links below.

Ghost Shooter: Step by Step
Flapping Bird: Step by Step

1. Ghost Shooter: Step by Step

PPTX file: Part 1 of 3
PPTX file: Part 2 of 3
PPTX file: Part 3 of 3
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Reference: Derived from Beginner’s Guide to Construct 2 originally published by Ashley

How this is different from the 2011 tutorial on Scirra.com? It expands upon the written tutorial by providing detailed screenshots of every step and is grouped into concepts that I identified from my learning. Also, the steps and screenshots from a recent version (as of 2014). Finally, it explains relevant concepts such as Parallax and X-Y Coordinates for Graphics Programming.

Intro to Construct 2: Ghost Shooter – Step by Step from Shahed Chowdhuri

2. Flapping Bird: Step by Step

PPTX file: Part 1 of 3
PPTX file: Part 2 of 3
PPTX file: Part 3 of 3
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Project file (capx)
SlideShare Link
Reference: Derived from ‘Make your own “Flappy Bird” game in 10 minutes‘ originally published by Tom
Expanded into a full-featured game, by reverse-engineering the Flapping Bird template that ships with Construct 2, explaining how it was really made
For Scoring and Sounds, see Flapping Bird Improvements.

How is this different from tutorial on Scirra’s website? It expands upon the written tutorial by providing detailed screenshots of every step. Also, it goes way beyond the initial tutorial to explain how to build to a complete working game that can be seen in the template that now ships with Construct 2.

Construct 2: Flapping Bird – Step by Step from Shahed Chowdhuri

Enjoy!

~Shahed Chowdhuri 🙂

Diff’ing your code with Beyond Compare

By Shahed C on September 14, 2013

TODO Comments and Technical Debt

By Shahed C on July 21, 2013

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When I first started out in software development, I used to write a lot of comments in my code. To stay consistent with the developers who had previously worked on the same code, I even added to the historical comments above each module.

As a result, the top of a VB module could look like this:

' ****************************************
' Module: EmailProcessor
' Purpose: Process Email
' Author: John Doe
' Last Modified By: Jane Smith
' *****************************************
Sub ProcessEmail
  ' process email here
  Call ProcessEmail()
End Sub

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Node.js for .NET Developers with Kevin Griffin

By Shahed C on June 1, 2013

Game Development with G. Andrew Duthie

By Shahed C on May 27, 2013

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Last week, I had just attended a user group meeting for DCDNUG, hosted by G. Andrew Duthie, a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft. The topic was “Developing Games for the Windows Store with HTML5 and JavaScript” and was a great introduction to creating games for Microsoft’s new platform using familiar web technologies.

I downloaded Andrew’s Community Megaphone app for Windows 8 after the meeting, and learned about the interactive event, Game Development for Beginners, at Microsoft’s Reston VA office. This is one of many free Game Dev events from Microsoft listed in the app.