Flappy Bird | Movement
The next game we’ll make is a Flappy Bird clone 😁
What we’ll learn
Here are the big topics we’ll cover for this game
- Scrolling Views: We’ll setup our window to only show a small portion of a much larger room
- Multiple Rooms: We’ll make multiple rooms, this will allow us to make multiple levels as well as menus
- UI: We’ll learn how to make interactable buttons
Although for this chapter we’ll just be handling the bird movement
But wait, don’t we already know how to make things move?, well, yes. In addition to teaching you new things, I’ll also be RE-teaching you some other things and I want to explain why
What we’ll relearn
Game Maker gives you a lot of options for different ways to solve the same problem. DnD versus GML is the best example
Sometimes, I opt to teach one and not the other. For DnD versus GML, I opted to only teach you GML, and completely skip DnD. I want to give you what I have to offer, and DnD isn’t part of that
Similarly, I opted not to teach you art, it’s just not a skill that I’m equipped to teach you. I’m good at working with other talented people to make their art come to life, so that’s what I’ll teach you
Othertimes, it’s better to teach both. Sometimes it’s better to learn the easy way first, and then learn the better/harder way second rather than jumping straight into the hard way. Here are some examples from the previous chapters
hspeed/vspeed/direction/speed: These are great for getting started, but think it’s better to handle them from scratch, so we won’t be used for the rest of the course- Events: We learned a ton of events in previous chapters, but I’m almost exclusively going to use the create, step, draw events moving forward
So as a warning, a big chunk of this chapter is going to feel like duplicated effort, but rest assured, that it will set you up for bigger better things in the future 😉
## TODO: add cheat sheets?