HTML5 Game Development from the Ground Up with Construct 2

88    ◾   HTML5 Game Development from the Ground Up

For the explosion eect, let’s try to make some cool particles. Add a new

particle object, name it Explosion, and draw some fancy, multicolored

dots with the brush tool, for example, like those shown in Figure6.53, but

you can also import an image if you have something suitable, of course

(in this case, in the Explosion properties, change blend mode to Additive

so that each particle blends properly with the background and with the

FIGURE 6.52 Updated Every tick event to include the spawning of asteroids,

handled in the background by the sentinel object.

FIGURE 6.53 Possible particles for our ...