Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Starting the project
Once you have started a new project, you need to change the layout size to
640, 480
.
Then, we need to add some art. The first thing we need to add is the player. Find a circular
graphic and add the sprite. Make your sprite 50 by 50 pixels and change its name to
Play-
er
.
Your layout should look like the following screenshot:
It's really important that you name the player as well as set the size, because when you
make a lot of sprites, it can get confusing later on. Imagine if you had a game with 200
sprites and they were all called sprite1, sprite2, and so on; it would get confusing really
fast. Whenever you set the size of an object, it is best to set the size in Photoshop or anoth-
er program. When you change the size of images in game engines, the images can be dis-
torted and as a result, they do not look good.
