Introduction to Mobile Games Development with Gamesalad

Introduction to Mobile Games Development with Gamesalad, available at $64.99, has an average rating of 4.75, with 52 lectures, 2 quizzes, based on 168 reviews, and has 1511 subscribers.

You will learn about You will learn how to create your own mobile and desktop games using Gamesalad. You will learn about the elements (sprites, behaviors, physics, sounds, and more) that make a successful game. You will learn to think like a game developer. There are downloadable source files and supplementary information to compliment the lectures. Interactive quizzes will let you test your knowledge of the subjects covered. By the end of this course you will have completed 3 different video games. This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginners or Anyone who wants to learn to make their own video games or Anyone who wants to make their games available for Macintosh, Windows, Android, iOS, and HTML 5 platforms. It is particularly useful for Beginners or Anyone who wants to learn to make their own video games or Anyone who wants to make their games available for Macintosh, Windows, Android, iOS, and HTML 5 platforms.

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Summary

Title: Introduction to Mobile Games Development with Gamesalad

Price: $64.99

Average Rating: 4.75

Number of Lectures: 52

Number of Quizzes: 2

Number of Published Lectures: 52

Number of Published Quizzes: 2

Number of Curriculum Items: 54

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 54

Original Price: $39.99

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What You Will Learn

You will learn how to create your own mobile and desktop games using Gamesalad.

You will learn about the elements (sprites, behaviors, physics, sounds, and more) that make a successful game.

You will learn to think like a game developer.

There are downloadable source files and supplementary information to compliment the lectures.

Interactive quizzes will let you test your knowledge of the subjects covered.

By the end of this course you will have completed 3 different video games.

Who Should Attend

Beginners

Anyone who wants to learn to make their own video games

Anyone who wants to make their games available for Macintosh, Windows, Android, iOS, and HTML 5 platforms.

Target Audiences

Beginners

Anyone who wants to learn to make their own video games

Anyone who wants to make their games available for Macintosh, Windows, Android, iOS, and HTML 5 platforms.

Since the launch of the Apple App Store in 2008, games have been one of the most downloaded categories of apps for iOS devices, the same holds true for the Android App Stores. Most people seem to think games are very hard to build because they require a lot of difficult to learn programming knowledge. But in this class I will teach you how easy it is to make your own games with NO programming knowledge at all.

No prior programming or game development experience is needed for this class. In this class you will learn how to use Gamesalad Creator to create three different video games. You’ll learn:

How to set up and use Gamesalad’s development environment

How to think like a game developer

About key game elements like sprites, behaviors, audio, and more

How to set up different kinds of player interaction, keyboard for desktop games and touch controls for mobile games

How to add physics to your games

How to publish your games as HTML 5 and post it on your own webpage

The three games that you will have completed by the end of class are:

Classic Pong

An Endless Runner

And a Physics Puzzle game

All three games can be previewed for FREE from the lecture outline below!

Learn Gamesalad Book!I have recently published a book titled “Learn Mobile Game Development in One Day Using Gamesalad”. While it is NOT required to complete this class it is a great companion to learn more details about Gamesalad and also contains four entirely different game building exercises. Udemy does not allow live links in this area so if you are interested in the book, simple do a Google search and it should pop right up for you.

Some features of Gamesalad Creator include:

Gamesalad offers a FREE 15 day free trial of their software which should be plenty of time to work through the lessons in this class. After the 15 day free trial you are able to continue using Gamesalad on a monthly or yearly basis through various subscription plans.

IOS and Android Publishing

Web Publishing with HTML 5

Publish to Macintosh and Windows computers

Publish to both the Kindle and the Nook

Built in Physics engine

Simple Drag & Drop user interface

Sign up now and you’ll have all the knowledge you need to create and publish your own video games in no time!

Note: Gamesalad has versions that work on both the Macintosh and Windows operating systems. This course uses the Macintosh version for all of the lessons, while all of the functionality is the same between operating systems, the interface is different so Windows users will see different window and menu layouts in their software. If you are a Windows user consider watching the free preview of Lecture 3 where I discuss the differences between the Windows and Macintosh versions.

If you are a Windows user please be sure and watch and read the Windows lectures in Section 8 Bonus Material first!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction, Installation and Overview

Lecture 1: What is game development and what is Gamesalad?

Lecture 2: Install Gamesalad for Macintosh

Lecture 3: Macintosh Interface Overview And A Few Words About The Windows Version

Chapter 2: Assets for the Course

Lecture 1: Macintosh Asset Files

Lecture 2: Windows Asset Files

Chapter 3: Getting Down to Business with Gamesalad

Lecture 1: Section 2 Assignments

Lecture 2: Starting a new game project

Lecture 3: The Scene Editor part 1

Lecture 4: The Scene Editor part 2

Lecture 5: Actors part 1 (sprites and images)

Lecture 6: Actors part 2 (sprites and images)

Lecture 7: Tags, organizing your actors

Lecture 8: Behaviors, actions and scripting part 1

Lecture 9: Behaviors, actions and scripting part 2

Lecture 10: Attributes part 1

Lecture 11: Attributes part 2

Lecture 12: Attributes details handout

Lecture 13: Graphics part 1

Lecture 14: Graphics part 2

Lecture 15: Graphics details handout

Lecture 16: Audio, sounds and music

Lecture 17: Physics Engine

Lecture 18: Physics details handout

Chapter 4: Youre first full game — Classic Pong!

Lecture 1: Make Your Own Pong–The First Commercially Successful Video Game

Lecture 2: Pong 2–Adding the paddles

Lecture 3: Pong 3–Add the boundaries and the ball/puck

Lecture 4: Pong 4–Scoring system and display

Lecture 5: Pong 5–Artificial Intelligence

Lecture 6: Pong 6–Tweaking the AI

Lecture 7: Pong 7–Allowing the computer to serve the ball

Lecture 8: Pong 8–Adding some UI messages and finishing the game

Chapter 5: Creating your own endless runner style game!

Lecture 1: Endless Runner 1–What is an endless runner game?

Lecture 2: Endless Runner 2-Set up and begin building some platforms

Lecture 3: Endless Runner 3–Continue building the plaftorms

Lecture 4: Endless Runner 4–Randomize the platforms as they appear on screen

Lecture 5: Endless Runner 5–Control the platforms placement and add the player

Lecture 6: Endless Runner 6–Adding the player and some graphics

Lecture 7: Endless Runner 7–Animate the player and scroll (parallax) the background

Lecture 8: Endless Runner 8–Add the obstacles

Lecture 9: Endless Runner 9–Scoring and final game details

Chapter 6: Build a physics puzzle game!

Lecture 1: Physics Puzzle 1–Physics puzzle game demo

Lecture 2: Physics Puzzle 2–Set up and adding some actors

Lecture 3: Physics Puzzle 3–Background scenery and scene building

Lecture 4: Physics Puzzle 4–Break the crates with a particle effect

Lecture 5: Physics Puzzle 5–Start the main character

Lecture 6: Physics Puzzle 6–Winning or losing

Lecture 7: Physics Puzzle 7–Adding the UI button controls

Lecture 8: Physics Puzzle 8–Finish the UI and build a splash screen

Lecture 9: Physics Puzzle 9–Level building

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Lecture 1: The End?

Chapter 8: Bonus Material

Lecture 1: Macintosh and Windows Interface Comparison

Lecture 2: IMPORTANT Information for International Windows Users

Instructors

Jamie Cross
Gamesalad Mobile Game Development

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