{"id":965,"date":"2025-03-26T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/?p=965"},"modified":"2025-05-13T21:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:39:51","slug":"creative-practice-next-steps-in-game-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/creative-practice-next-steps-in-game-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Making &#8211; Danger on the Train &#8211; Exporting Files and Exploring 2D Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Aims for today&#8217;s work <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>to learn about how to export the game &#8211; to check if this is going to work with my final project <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to make an attempt at a basic shell for a pixelated platform game<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to rough illustrate some of the scenes to give the game a bit more personality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Achievements <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Exporting the game file<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>The Godot tutorial didn&#8217;t really tell me how to do this, but I managed to find a guide with the right info. After downloading the export packages and tweaking the settings, I managed to create a dmg file = which worked! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"789\" src=\"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-09.25.54-1024x789.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-09.25.54-1024x789.png 1024w, https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-09.25.54-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-09.25.54-768x592.png 768w, https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-09.25.54-1536x1183.png 1536w, https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-09.25.54.png 1864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Making a platform game shell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>I used this tutorial: <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Ultimate 2D Platformer Tutorial in Godot #1 - Tilemap &amp; Character Movement\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c5msTt9Jeyg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>I also made my own character using an online pixel drawing app: <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" src=\"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/player.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-969\" style=\"width:60px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>With only some minor glitches I managed to build a world with an interactive character with a camera that moves with the character: <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1016\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-13.36.36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-13.36.36.png 1016w, https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-13.36.36-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-13.36.36-768x408.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>Now that I have a better sense of how the world is built and the character motion works &#8211; I have a better idea of how I to conceptualise the game and the  steps needed to build it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This YouTuber continues to build on this tutorial to complete the game: I will come back to the series another day to stop my brain exploding. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Illustrating some of the scenes <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>I have some ideas of how the scenes could look but wanted to see how these might be realised <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I don&#8217;t really like using moodboards, I prefer to work from imagination using whatever references I have to hand or can quickly find <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I organised the scenes as photoboards in photoshop and started using photos from free Unsplash.com to create images. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These are the images from the first three scenes of the game <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/titlescreen.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/titlescreen.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/titlescreen-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Introduction.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Introduction.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Introduction-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/boarding.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/boarding.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/boarding-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I&#8217;m trying to create a dream like atmosphere and also trying to be careful about not trying to make the character too specific &#8211; to allow the player to imagine themselves in the situation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">So far the images are looking good! And it has been easy to add them to the Godot game file<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Reflections <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>+ve<\/td><td>-ve<\/td><td>=&gt; <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&#8211; Approaching the game making in chunks with a good quality tutorial was successful<br>&#8211; I&#8217;m pleased that I&#8217;m able to use my digital art knowledge \/ skills to develop my story board ideas. I am feeling like this game could actually workout! <br><\/td><td>&#8211; The tutorial didn&#8217;t cover a lot of things I need to know, so I will need to continue needing to patch together tutorials to get to where I need to get to <br>&#8211; I think there are aspects of the story which will need tweaking &#8211; the storyboard is feeling a bit rigid, but I hope to think about this as the game becomes more formed <br>&#8211; Once I have the new versions of the images done and the first prototypes of the mini games I will do some testing and iterate again <\/td><td>&#8211; I am going to continue chunking the game  tasks into manageable bits. I am getting a better sense of how much work I can realistically achieve in a day. <br>&#8211; I think I could have done some testing with some rough versions of the game but I have been talking to people about the idea and most people seem excited to try it.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aims for today&#8217;s work Achievements Exporting the game file Making a platform game shell Illustrating some of the scenes I&#8217;m&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-making","category-learningjourneys"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/end.jpg",800,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/end-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/end-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/end-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/end.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/end.jpg",800,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/end.jpg",800,450,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"kb4n24","author_link":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/author\/kb4n24\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Aims for today&#8217;s work Achievements Exporting the game file Making a platform game shell Illustrating some of the scenes I&#8217;m&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}