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iPlatformer Video Tutorial 1

by Ray Delia · 11/03/2011 (5:47 pm) · 8 comments

iPlatformer Video Tutorial for iTorque 1.5 Part 1

Hey all,

II used QuickTime X to capture the desktop (I'll try not to cut off the top of the screen next time) , and iMovie for some basic editing.


Topics touched upon::

Opening iTGB Creating a new project
Adding assets Level Datablocks
Spritesheets Animations
Background Images Positioning and Resizing
Tile Layers / Building levels Simple Physics
A Player Class Setting up the Back-end for movement
onUpdate function Adding Buttons
Horizontal Movement Behaviors


Topics for next time:

Vertical Movement: Jump!
Controlling animations
Modifying a behavior
Better Buttons
Full Motion on the Player!
Using PC with Torsion for debugging along side your mac

Future Topics:

Advanced Buttons / Multitouch
Adding a death sequence
Adding an attack sequence
Enemies


About the author

I have been immersed in Torquescript since 8-1-2011, and have really been impressed with the product, and supporting community. I have several blog posts that contain tutorials for iTorque if anyone is interested.


#1
11/03/2011 (7:56 pm)
Oh, I didn't realize that tutorial was live.... Glad to see it.
#2
11/04/2011 (10:19 am)
Excellent job... can not wait for the next installment...
#3
11/04/2011 (12:15 pm)
Wow Ray, that awesome! Thanks. We need to get this exposed better on our site.
#4
11/04/2011 (1:31 pm)
Very cool Ray
#5
11/04/2011 (4:58 pm)
Thanks, all!

Tutorial #2 is 1/2 recorded. Hopefully I will have it up on Monday. I have a preview up on youtube now.
#6
11/05/2011 (6:14 am)
Great tutorial, although it would be nice to see you using a text editor with syntax highlighting like Textwrangler. Xcode is so ugly for working with TorqueScript.
#7
11/05/2011 (9:27 am)
@Conner. Thanks! I would love to get some sort of text highlighting or intellisense while using my mac. Right Now, I use torsion on my pc when I need to debut script.

I just found the thread about the TorqueScript language module for BBEdit being used with TextWrangler. I'll check it out, and then maybe transition into using that.
#8
02/29/2012 (3:13 pm)
Tagged for tonight.