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Start off the day with a warm-up
Pick a genre
Adventure, FPS, Simulation, Survival Stealth, Multiplayer Online, Real-time strategy, battle royal, action, roleplaying, puzzle, racing, platformer, horror, mmprpg, fighting, sandbox, shooter, sports, strategy, rhythm
Tell me what is wrong with the current state of this genre and how you would innovate then share an idea for a game in this genre that you feel would change everything and become the next big thing
Half page minimum
1984 Showcase Game
Project Due Dates
Game Delivered by the end of class - Dec 4th
Design Doc - Dec 6
Presentation - Dec 6
What are you learning?
Game Development
Asset Store
AI Art
Photoshop
Packaging your game
Why is it important?
This is your showcase project, this is where you are to create a game that is ready to be published and distributed
How do you show that you understand? What is the assignment?
We are going to create AI Generated Art with Firefly
We will size it and modify it in Photoshop
Package your game for publication
Open Gdevelop
Create New Empty Project
Desktop Full HD 1920 x 1080
Add new object BUT this time from the asset store
Search for Cat
Select Pet Cats
Add these assets to my scene
Create a tiled sprite for the floor
Give it the platform behavior so the cat can move
Give your cat the Platform Character Behavior
Add the floor and cat
Add a few cats for fun
Go to
Login with your CART Account
You are going to create some art for the this CAT game.
make sure fast mode is off
Select Landscape Ratio
Select Art
Put in a prompt about cats
Generate some images and download one (it doesn't matter which one)
Launch Photoshop
Create a new file
Remember when we created our game at 1920px x 1080px?
Create this size
Now we will place the AI Art that we created in out photoshop project
File
Place Embedded
Grab the corners of your Cat Art and make it fit in the space
Click Window
Make sure your character and layers are selected
Use the character panel and the Text Tool to name the game then make it fit
In your layers panel
Double Click the text that you just created
Explore the layer styles to make the text to your liking
Export your file
Click File > Export > Export As
Export your file as a JPG
Save it somewhere you will remember
Go back to Gdevelop
Select your game settings
Icons and thumbnail
Choose a file
Select your thumbnail
Next we will resize the art for windows 512x512
Go back to Photoshop
Click Image
Canvas Size
Change the canvas size to 512 x 512 (pixels)
With the Cat Layer selected
Click Edit > Transform > Scale
Scale the cat so that it fits in the frame
With the text selected, do the same thing
Export the file just like you did with the large version
File > Export > Export As > jpg
Once your file is saved, go back to gdevelop
click settings > icons and thumbnails
Add the image you just exported
Click on Properties
Add info on your game
Now we are ready to publish your game
Click Share
If you choose gd.games, you can make it like and available for other people to play without the link
If you choose desktop, you will create a portable version that you can take with you
On desktop, select one-click packaging
