#madeinconstruct

Sprite Fonts are tricky to figure out for two reasons

1. Making Sprite Fonts are time consuming in Construct 3 - there are a bunch of tools that are meant to speed up the process like ShoeBox and Codehead’s Bitmap Font Generato, and Im sure there are many more - but those tool require some level of learning.

2. Getting the fonts to read correctly next to the coin was a bit more frustrating especially with the limitations that Im trying to hit with this demo.

Interesting bug when the scene gets initialized.

So here’s what’s happening

When the player’s X position is greater than the height of the screen (in this case above y > 667 pixels) the following happens

the player object gets destroyed

the system is instructed to reset all global variables including high score, position of the scrolling background, position of the randomly generated clouds (not seen in this gif), and position of the randomly generated coin

the system is then instructed to Restart the Layout which is why Absurb Birb appears right in the center of the screen.

Completed the player’s 4 animation cycles

Idle 

Confirm

Walk

Player Controls are finally functioning

Player on-boarding prompt 

Wall collisions are in, though I might have to take an optimization pass at this towards the end 

Flushed out the hero character and started work on some animation cycles 

Idle 

Walk 

this demo now has randomly assigned collision objects. Another feature worked on is the introduction of a sound effect, every time the red virus hits the walls / collision object