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First of all, the video game industry makes more money than the movie and music industry combined, this is a fact. There are many people living their best life due to their jobs on game dev teams. I am having you read this article because it is important that you understand the state of the business. You can be competent, even good at what you do but if you aren't willing to outwork your competition, you will be unemployed. Turning in late work or missing an assignment exposes you, there is no reason for this. You don't necessarily need to be smarter but you need to be obsessed with the work if you are going to make it. If your goal is to finish the work as fast as you can so that you can get on your phone or play games, you may find yourself struggling to get work in this industry. If you really want to work in the video game industry, your obsession with the work should start right now. You can do it but nobody is going to do it for you so let's cook.

Write a half-page summary and tell me your real interest in working in this industry.

Article from: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/2k-confirms-layoffs-at-civilization-developer-firaxis

What are you learning?

Game Design with SMBX - Flags

Why is it important?

Modding your game to improve the functionality can be the difference between a functional game and a great game. 

How do you show that you understand? What is the assignment?

Keyboard Controls

Jump = Z

Run/Grab/Fireball = X

Alternate Jump = A

Alternate Run = S

Drop Item = Shift

Pause = Escape

Pick Up = Down Arrow + A 

FLAGS

Open editor

Lay down some blocks (blocks and tiles)

Add mario (level settings > Start Locations)

Add a bad guy (NPCS)

Open up your SMBX Folder

Open up your Graphics Folder

Open the NPC Folder and find the NPC you just added to your game

I used npc-44.gif

Go back to your SMBX folder and open up the worlds folder and create a new folder called flags

Save your level in the flags folder

Press F1 on your keyboard to open up your level editor help

Scroll down to 5.b List of NPC Flags

Open up the wordpad app on your PC

In wordpad, we will increase the speed by typing:

speed=6

Save this as a text file in your worlds > Flags folder

*** YOU MUST SAVE THE FILE AS THE NPC NAME THAT YOU ARE MODIFYING***

npc-44.txt

Next we will modify some NPCs

Open your SMBX > Graphics > npc 

Make a copy of NPC-1.gif

You will keep this copy as a backup incase you don't like your mods

Open your web browser and head to https://www.piskelapp.com

Click Import

Select import from picture

Select your npc-1.gif file (NOT THE COPY) from your NPC folder

In Import and Merge, you need to select import as a spritesheet

The reason you want to do this is because you want the frames separated

Set your framesize to 32x32

Notice the two images are now separated in two boxes

Click Import

Now we have our two seperate sprites

Color the eyes in one of the frames red

You now have an NPC with flashing eyes

Export your spritesheet

When you export your sprite sheet, you want to export as a PNG

Make sure the resolution is the same as the original 32x32

Make sure the layout is the same as the original 1 Column x 2 Rows

Click Download in Spritesheet file export

Go to https://ezgif.com in your web browser

Click Gif Maker

Click Choose Files and find the PNG File you just created

Click Upload Files!

Once you see your art is uploaded, click Make a GIF!

Once the gif has been created, right click on the image and select Save image as...