10/9

We will be creating a crouch

Open your Hero

add a new animation

call it crouch

create a pumpkin pie width of your Hero 

Edit the collision Mask on the Pie 

Add a new event

Condition: Key Pressed

Key: z

Action: Change Animation

Create new Object

Name it Wall

Create is Piskel

Size 64x64

Create a wall/stone/brick/whatever

Name animation 0 WallSmall

Create a second Animation and name it WallTall

Edit WallTall in Piskel

Change your WallTall Sprite to 64pm wide x 256 tall

Copy your Wall Small and paste it in your WallTall Animation then move it to the bottom

Duplicate the frame and create a new layer

paste another instance of your WallSmall in the new layer and stack it on the first layer

Repeat this process until you have enough layers to cover the entire wall

Do not loop the animation because you only want it to happen once. 

Add the platform behavior

Add your wall to the game

We want the wall to build up when we collide with it

Create a new event

Condition

Hero

Collision

Wall

Action

Change animation

WallTall

When you preview the game, the wall is not growing taller

Open up your wall object and click Edit Points

When you review the different Animations numbers and Frames, you can see that the origins are both at the top left hand corner and the center points are different

We also have Share same points for all animations selected

What I want to do is change the Origin to the bottom left corner and center from the bottom so that the animation goes up

We DO NOT want to share the same points for all animations and sprites because the bottom corner of wall small is not the same as the bottom corner of WallTall

Test it

The animation is still failing to do what we want

The reason for this is because we have different points in our different frames

Set all the points in every tall frame to the same spot

Test it

The animation works but we can still walk through part of the wall

The reason for this is because we have the same collision mask on all the objects in the frame

The collision mask is the area that can be collided with, it is also the area that you can stand on (remember we make this a platform object)

Open your Wall Object and click Edit Collision Mask

We need to select Use custom collision mask so that we can set the mask around each frame

When you compare Animation 0 to animation 1, you can see that the collision mask is only covering the top so there is no collision on the rest of the object.

For this reason, we need to turn off Share same collision masks for all animations because each frame needs a collision mask around the object

Go through each animation and frame

Move the collision mask to that it covers the entire wall

Test and save

Let's go over delays aka Wait

Create a new object

make a skull and crossbones

Create a second animation 

reuse the skull and bones from the first animation

Duplicate the frame and erase a little bit

Duplicate the frame and erase a little bit more

Continue this until the art is gone

Create a new event

Condition

Hero

Collision

Skull

Action

Change animation to the second skull and bones animation

Additional action

Wait

2 second

Move the wait before the change animation

test save

Now let's add pathfinding

Create a new sprite

Name it Banshee

64x64

Animate it in Piskel

Loop the animation and place it in your game

Add behavior

Pathfinding

Open up your platform and add the Obstacle for pathfinding behavior

NOT PATHFINDING!

Create a new event

Condition

Hero

Distance between two objects

Banshee

600

Action

banshee

move to a position

Hero.X()

Hero.Y()

Start Menu

Create a new scene and name it Start Menu

Name your first level

Add a new object

Text Object

Add something to the effect of Press Any Key to start or something similar

Bring it into your level

Open extensions

Add the Flash Object Extension 

Install in project

Open up your text opject

Add the flash behavior

Select Flash visibility

Open events

Add new event

Condition always

Blink

Text object

Test it out

Now we are going to add out hero, blade and arrows into this scene by changing it from a scene object to as global object

Once you do this, the hero will be available in every scene

Bring them all into the scene

Open your Start events

Link the enemies external event

Select enemies

Test 

We have problems

Remember, we gave the hero the platform character behavior so physics are making it fall.

We also made the walking variable a scene variable, not a global variable to it only works in the first level.

Add an invisible platform (like we did with the Killzone) with the platform behavior or create a new platforms and hide it in the events (like we did with the arrows)

What we want to happen is that the Hero falls and lands on top of the text

Fix the walking variable issue by changing it to a global variable (just like we did with the coins).

Delete the Scene walking variable

Add the Global walking Variable

Hide the arrows in the Events

Now add a new event

Condition

Any key Pressed

Action

Change scene Level 1

Test and save

Open your first level events

Add a new event is health

Condition: Object variable value

Object: Hero

Variable: health

Sign of the test: <(less than)

Value to compare: 0 

Action: Change the scene to Start

Remember that all the events run from top to bottom?

The same thing happens with the scenes so you must move the start scene above level 1