Amiga

Last time I left you with a map with a few pizzas on. Now we have better table-cloth tiles and something we can make into a wall or obstacle. Because of the odd perspective we’re using I’ve decided to make the “wall” 1.5 blocks high. The top half will be a foreground tile so you

In the previous tutorial we concentrated on platform-based actors for the simple platform game, but if you wanted to make a top-down game you’d likely want to use 8 or 4 directional movement types. You can download the Tutorial2 starter assets from https://mixelslab.com/scorpion as before. You’ll see a bunch of food PNGs, and a level

Earok has a great Getting Started guide on the Official Scorpion Wiki that has some app suggestions, I’ll be listing Applications that I personally use, why, and how they fit into my workflow. A lot of these are a matter of preference. Essentials These Applications are 100% prerequisite for using Scorpion Engine. Scorpion Editor. (Free

Panels, Status Bars and Score Let’s add the finishing touches to this simple little game! We’ll be adding a Game Over panel, score, victory state and a status bar for displaying lives. Panels – what are they? In Scorpion, a Panel is a image-based element you can print text, health bars, and other visuals to.

Creating Some Enemies It’s time to get some enemies in this game! Last time we made the player actor and plopped him into the map. This time we’re going to add an enemy, and make it so you can kill each other. Preparing the animations..Just like the player, an actor will need animations first, so

Creating A Player Actor Hello again! Last time we made the map and the beginning of the project. This time we’re going to put some stuff in there. Before we make the player “Actor” (the term SE uses for most interactive BOB/sprite entities) we need to create animations for him. SE animation files are called

In this tutorial (originally printed in Zzap! Amiga #20-23) I run through setting up a basic platform game project. If you’d like a print version of this tutorial you can read it in back orders from zzap amiga here. Here are the assets for Tutorial 1 part 1: TUTORIAL 1 FILES Part 1 : Creating