Platformer Series – Construct 2 Tutorial

Make a 2D Platformer game like Super Mario bross.etc without any coding or programming using Construct 2 game engine.

This tutorial is suitable for beginner as well as Construct 2 user who want to improve their skills. In this tutorial i will teach you how to make a complete Platformer game from scratch.

Make sure you have installed Construct 2, if not, you can get here. if you use Construct 2 Free version, some features like families object, function plugin,etc not available.

This tutorial uses Abstract Platformer sprites by Kenney.

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All used game assets on this tutorial (sounds, music, sprites).

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This tutorial is separated into 11-Parts with a total duration of 2 hours 54 minutes.

PART 1 : Beginning

View all Part 1-11 (Youtube Playlist)

Table of Contents

1. Beginning
   • Player movement
   • Player animations (stand, walk, jump, fall, landed)
   • Platformer ground (solid and jump true)
   • Mirror player if move left or right (keyboard)
   • Parallax layer/background
2. Enemys
   • Enemy movement
   • Enemy animations
   • Creating more ground
   • Player flash if collision with enemy
3. Game HUD (Player life,heart, score)
   • Mirror enemy
   • Parallax HUD layer
   • Global and instance variable
   • Substact heart/life if player collision with enemy
   • Pickup gem
   • Text using Spritefont+
   • Generate spritefont using GiveYourFontsMono
   • Gameover if heart 0
4. Player attack (Super Mario style)
   • Player attack with Super Mario style
   • Fade and change dead animation enemy if player attack
   • Bonus gem if enemy dead, with sprite animation
5. Popup (Gameover and level complete)
   • Visible & invisible layer
   • Level complete if player collision with flag
   • Events group
   • Change player heart to global variable (before instance variable)
   • Restart button with click animation
6. Collecting keys & Lock the door
   • Collecting keys
   • Keys HUD with animation frame
   • Lock the door if picked keys less than 3
   • Open the door if picked/player keys equal to 3
   • Player win/level complete if player collision with the door if door open
7. Touch Control
   • Creating touch control
   • Button opacity
   • How to use/create Families object
   • Button/control click scale
   • Both keyboard and touch function
8. Global layer and Add more levels
   • Create new layout
   • Global layer
   • Create more levels
   • Fix bullet/swimming enemy
   • Families behavior
   • Gameover if player outside layout
   • Add next level button if player win/level complete
   • Invisible next button if gameover
9. Sound and Music with On/Off button
   • Add or import sound and music
   • Make on/off music or sound button with sprite frame
   • Function (plugin), how to use function to call specific event
   • Detect sound (on or off) using global variable
   • Stop sound
   • Set audio volume in Construct 2
10. Lock,Unlock Level
    • Lock and Unlock level
    • Layout menu
    • Auto set spritefont+
    • Level variable
11. WebStorage and LocalStorage
    • WebStorage, this plugin is easy to use, but this plugin is deprecated.
    • LocalStorage, how to use localstorage to save and load levels/variable