How to Make your First Game! Quick, Simple and Easy Guide for Beginners!

Hello and welcome to my new Quick Start Series!

Even tho i enjoy the more working vlog style videos, i know they arent for everyone… So i made a new complete series, more focused on smaller, simple and straight to the point videos with very basic and fun shapes instead of drawing full assets.

  • This Series is Perfect for Beginners and First Timers who just want to jump in GDevelop, hit create new project and start making their very first game, without having to download or draw any fancy assets.

  • I dont just focus on trying to keep the videos more bite sized simple, but also on teaching you cool and fun stuff, like shooting bullets, fighting enemies with more than one health, making sonic style springs and much more!

Iv been having a lot of fun making this series, i hope you enjoy it too!

If you enjoy what i do, consider checking the Youtube Channel and Subscribing, it would help a lot!

More videos coming in as i upload them! Ill keep updating this Topic until the series is finished

Table of Content:

  • Episode 1: Setup the Project, then Making the Player and Platform Objects
  • Episode 2: Making Enemies
  • Episode 3: Making a Spring
  • Episode 4: Event Groups and Comments
  • Episode 5: Making a Bullet and Shooting Enemies
  • Episode 6: Giving Enemies Health
  • Episode 7: Making an Enemy Hit Animation
  • Episode 8: Making Enemies Move
  • Episode 9: Making a Moving Platform
  • Episode 10: Player Health and Hit Recovery
  • Episode 11: Knockback Hit
  • Episode 12: Making a Coin and Fixing up our First Level
  • Episode 13: UI, Adding Coins and Layers
  • Episode 14: External Layouts
  • Episode 15: Showing Health on UI
  • Episode 16: Making a Health Bar
  • Episode 17: Healing and Max Health
  • Episode 18: Energy System or “Ammo”
  • Episode 19: Melee Combat! Punching Stuff!
  • Episode 20: Dashing and Double Jump
  • Episode 21: Upgrading the Tiles
  • Episode 22: Building Level 1!
  • Episode 23: Changing Levels and External Events
  • Episode 24: Keeping Things in Memory (Saving Values Between Scenes)
  • Episode 25: Making a Pause Screen (Dont Skip! IMPORTANT)
  • Episode 26: Making an Enemy that Shoots Back!
  • Episode 27: Fixing some things and Making a Portal
  • Episode 28: Object Groups and a New Lava Tile!
  • Episode 29: Building Level 2!
  • Episode 30: Changing Levels Using only One Door!
  • Episode 31: Making a Game Over Screen
  • Episode 32: What are “Points”
  • Episode 33: Starting to Juice! Particle Emitters and Sounds!
  • Episode 34: Just fixing some odd ends before doing more Juicing!
  • Episode 35: More Juice! Easy Animations!
  • Episode 36: Even More Juicing Tricks!
  • Final Episode: Tweens and Transitions

Short Showcase Game Demo

Episode 1: Setup the Project then Making the Player and Platform Objects

Episode 2: Making Enemies

Episode 3: Making a Spring

Episode 4: Event Groups and Comments

Episode 5: Making a Bullet and Shooting Enemies

Episode 6: Giving Enemies Health

Episode 7: Making an Enemy Hit Animation

Episode 8: Making Enemies Move

Episode 9: Making a Moving Platform

Episode 10: Player Health and Hit Recovery

Episode 11: Knockback Hit

Episode 12: Making a Coin and fixing up our First Level

Episode 13: UI, Adding Coins and Layers

Episode 14: External Layouts

Episode 15: Showing Health on UI

Episode 16: Making a Health Bar

Episode 17: Healing and Max Health

Episode 18: Energy System or “Ammo”

**Episode 19: Melee Combat! Punching Stuff!

Episode 20: Dashing and Double Jump

Episode 21: Upgrading the Tiles

Episode 22: Building Level 1

Episode 23: Changing Levels and External Events

Episode 24: Keeping Things in Memory

**Episode 25: Making a Pause Screen (Dont Skip! IMPORTANT!)

**Episode 26: Making an Enemy that Shoots Back!

Episode 27: Fixing Some things and Making a Portal!

Episode 28: Object Groups and a New Lava Tile

Episode 29: Building Level 2!

**Episode 30: Changing Levels Using only One Door!

Episode 31: Making a Game Over Screen

Episode 32: What are “Points”

Episode 33: Starting to Juice! Particle Emitters and Sounds!

Episode 34: Just fixing some odd ends before doing more Juicing!

**Episode 35: More Juice! Easy Animations!

Episode 36: Even more Juicing Tricks!

Final Episode: Tweens and Transitions

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