In this part of my Video Games Tutorial we will continue to design our Zelda clone, but this video is also a stand alone tutorial. We’ll be taking a look at how the Tiled Map Editor can make it easy to design levels. We’ll then bring those levels into Unity with Tiled2Unity. As an added bonus I’ll show you a quick way to fix Sprite Tearing. Here is a link to the Sprite Sheet I use. Continue reading How to Make Video Games 27 →

In this part of my How to Make Video Games Tutorial we’ll cover how to animated Link, moving Link, creating a game board array and numerous other things. Here is a link to the Sprite Sheet I’m using.

I decided to show 2 ways to create Link and the game board to show the positives and negatives of both. Below you’ll find all the code used in this tutorial. Feel free to do what ever you’d like with it. Continue reading How to Make Video Games 26 →

In this part of my Video Game Tutorial I’m going to setup all of my Zelda clones assets and create the entire board. These techniques can be utilized to make games in multiple frameworks. I a future video I’ll also show you how to do this in a Unity centric way using a program called the Tiled Map Editor.

All of the sprites are available here in a free download. Feel free to do what ever you want with them, but be aware that most everything is based on a Nintendo property, so I don’t own anything. Continue reading How to Make Video Games 25 →

This is the first part of my video series in which I will make a Legend of Zelda clone. I get asked all the time to cover how to make pixel art, so I’ll cover that first. I’ll show exactly how I drew Link and then I’ll draw a ground sprite as well. We’ll also look at the finished sprite sheet I’ll use for the game. The sprite sheet is available here for free download.

In the videos that follow I’ll make a fully functioning Zelda clone. It will be a ton of fun! Continue reading How to Make Video Games 24 →