Games Dev: Unit 1 & 2: Evil Clutches & Galactic Mail

Task 3 - GDD and 2D Games Engine

After making catch the clown, mike made us read and do chapter 2 & 3 for the next lesson.
Since then a week has already passed and I completed chapter 2 at home and it was called evil clutches.

Evil clutches is a game where the player controls a dragon that tries to take out the bad dragons and save the baby dragon which all come out of the boss. If a player is able to save a baby dragon they will be rewarded with points, and if they get caught by the bad dragon the game ends. Its literally the "how long you can survive with the most amount of point before you die" type of game.

evil clutches finished

Evil clutches taught me the basic of game maker and I learned to get use the software. I'm probably better at using game maker now then I was when I made catch the clown and when I was making evil clutches the skill I learned in chapter 2 help me in making chapter 3 which is Galactic Mail.

Galactic Mail is a game where the player controls the rocket and tries to deliver mail to moons different moons, when the player delivers mail to the moon they get rewarded however, if they spend too long on a moon their points will get deducted.

The game is pretty simple and it only took me the first session of mike's lesson to finish. I started making Galactic Mail by adding all the images and sound files that was necessary, then I made objects that were needed as I was reading the chapter editing the object's value as I kept reading through chapter 3.

As I kept reading I was adding more object, editing values as I was reading and I saved the game as different version once key aspects of the game were working properly. I ended up making at least 6 different version of the game. Each version had a major aspect of the game functioning properly, and of course if something went wrong then I was able to roll back before I started working on the aspect of the game again.

I noticed not everything happened 1st try I did get error messages due to small silly mistakes. the 1st one happened when I was trying to config the rocket to land on the moon. It turned out that I didn't type the coordinates of the moon correctly. (Error Messages on Gamemaker are a lifesaver.) As I kept reading through the chapter I finally finished making the game all the images below shows my progression.

Version 1