Game Development with Construct 2: From Design to Realization

© Lee Stemkoski and Evan Leider 2017

LEE STEMKOSKI and Evan Leider, Game Development with Construct 2, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2784-8_2

2. Starfish Collector

Lee Stemkoski¹  and Evan Leider²

(1)DEPT OF MATH & CS, ADELPHI UNIVERSITY DEPT OF MATH & CS, Garden City, New York, USA

(2)NY, USA

In this chapter, you will create your first game with Construct 2, called Starfish Collector, shown in Figure 2-1. The player controls a turtle, whose goal is to swim around the ocean and collect all the starfish she can see. The game features a top-down perspective, and the player moves the turtle using the arrow keys. This chapter assumes no prior knowledge and will introduce the fundamental concepts needed to make a game using the Construct 2 game engine introduced in ...