My first indie videogame

My first indie videogame (with Construct 3)

I love playing video games, especially platform ones. One above all that I think not many know: Abe's oddysee, created by Oddworld Inhabitants, a game where skill and ingenuity, patience and stealth are the main mechanics.

I love those games so much that I decided to make one with the same mechanics, but... I don't know how to make video games. Where to start? How do I make the character move? What engine do I use?

I don't know programming and it's not a topic that I like very much, so I found Construct 2, an engine to make videogames without programming.

So I set myself the task of creating a simple game (within what my twisted mind allows) and I decided to make the character of a mushroom whose mission will be to rebuild a crystal so that darkness and death do not devastate his world.

I know it's a cliché, but the story wasn't what was important, it was the entire journey of creating a beautiful and, above all, functional silver video game.

But... how do I make everything move? I decided to start studying traditional animation and started making my first sketches

This will be my character and with these animations it will move across the map.

I started to create some platforms of different appearances, most would be real life mushrooms growing in our protagonist's world, others would be plants.

I started to create the environment to be able to test if everything was working.

Already having the place and the character, I created an object that I was going to have to collect by score, a crystal, and also an enemy, for now, a slug, with its respective walking animation

Having already "programmed" the character to gather the crystals, hurt the slug and vice versa, I began to make the posters with details that look prettier to the eye (still unfinished)

Here is a fleeting representation of what I have come to do (the background is not mine, is just an example, I don't make it yet and this is not will be the final BG).