Metroidvania Game Kit (Templates)

r5 is up. Just some small bug fixes / maintenance.

I haven't made a game in Construct yet, but I have a question. Could this be exported to run on mobile devices?

Technically, yes, but this was designed to run on desktops or browsers.

Would you consider doing an ''up and down trigger''? I've only seen a ''left and right trigger''. I would be willing to pay for this. I'm creating a big map and it would be a really interesting feature. Keep on the good work and have a nice day.

This is easily the largest block of events in the whole game kit so I'd like to just stick with horizontal transitions/alignments to keep things tidy.

The events are already there, really. You just need to copy/paste the existing transitions and change Right/Left to Up/Down and swap the y and x coordinates.

Tokinsom

Would it be too much to ask for an update with events/tweaks made to the player anim/input events to enable Castlevania style melee?

Been trying to work out how to do it in your events, without breaking everything or having to rewrite it all.

(castlevania melee, as in button input while jumping/running/idle would play melee animation and halt x velocity.)

bump :/

Discmach Hmm..hadn't planned on adding a melee ability. I'd like to keep this kit as simple as possible, and a mechanic like this could be confusing since it'd toggle entire components of the player engine. Same reason I removed the morphball before launch.

For a rudimentary melee attack all you really need to do is add a Player_Melee function call in the Player Input group, then have that function disable Player Mechanics & Player Animations, then play the melee attack animation and spawn the blade object. When the animation is finished or the player has been hurt or whatever, you can re-enable said groups.

If you only want the melee attack to disable certain mechanics like shooting, but leave others active like moving left/right, then you can create more groups and do something like above. Alternatively you can use a parent event that checks if a melee attacking boolean is false, and put mechanics that should be disabled when attacking underneath it.

Hello, i have been reading the forums on licensing en royalty free assets, but some things are not clear, so i guess i will ask directly for a good anwser

If i buy this pack can i use its assets (mostly textures and sprites that i like) with other game engines such as unity or unreal ?

the question is also related to other royalty free assets from the scirra store.

also is there a page where i can read more about buying assets (from scirra or gamedevmarket) and when i can use them commercially ?

AapO There is a license on each product page in the scirra store. It varies depending on the product category.

For this game kit and other templates you are allowed to use the assets in 1 commercial project per license purchased. However, there are numerous restrictions.

Copied from the template license section:

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Would it be possible to add a yes/no option to a message box, such as "Do you want to save?" or whatever?

Answered the last question over email a while back but for anyone else who's wondering, yes you can do this. You just need to create a Controller_Menu object and a few Spritefonts for the selections, then set the values. The title screen has a simple menu for reference.

This kit is awesome !!

Started making a Metroidvania with my friend, had lots of useless events, didn't even know you could make 1 massive world filled with rooms, didn't know anything about how to truly us Functions. Hell, I even learned a lot about something as basic as use of layers and variables xD

When I checked the kit I understood I basically knew nothing, so I made / copied the entire kit from scratch to absolutely understand what everything does. If you're new I recommend to this too ! You'll learn a lot

So what it comes down to: if you're new to C2 / making games ( regardless if you want to make a Metroidvania or not), just buy it if you're serious about it. You will learn more than you could just browsing forums and opening a capx example here and there.

As for most features that were requested, as Tokinsom said it's really easy to implement. When you understand the way it's all set up, you can play around with it and expand easily on the base kit. Because of this kit our game looks great now, is coded efficiently, the list of positive things goes on and on.

Thanks to Tokinsom for making this kit & for being so active and helping on forums !

Thanks Ataraxis that means a lot! I'm glad you're finding the game kit useful

Just bought the kit and initial expressions are great Lot's of stuff going on under the hood here and it's all well commented. I'll post a review once I've had more time with it.

Edit:

Posting my review here on the forums too:

[quote:3mlpmiuc]This is a great template. It's well structured and commented. Really showed me how to do things the right way and helped me kickstart my C2 development.

By studying how everything works you can use this as a starting point to modify your own metroidvania (or any kind of platformer really). Or you could learn from the project structure, events and assets and start your own game from scratch with an understanding on how to do it well.

I'm now creating a platformer, with some metrdoidvania elements. Without this template it would've taken me ages to learn all that's included here.

The included assets are also nice. I'm going to create my own assets but I might use/modify a couple of the assets in the template.

Thanks!

Also, forgot to mention in the review that Tokinsom has been very helpful in answering all my questions on support e-mail.

I've been now copying the whole thing from scratch like Ataraxis suggested. I've really learned a lot doing that

Metroidvania game kit is currently 50% off!!! Happy holidays!

it's possibile to replace the asset with larger png non pixel? i like to make something HD,thanx.

it's possibile to replace the asset with larger png non pixel? i like to make something HD,thanx.

Yes the kit doesn't use any hard numbers; it's all adjustable!

Great stuff!

Just a question:

I will like to know what kind of programming/scripting knowledge do I need for build my own levels, customize it and ultimately create my game.

Im not a programmer but an artist so will love to pick it up if its affordable enough for me

Thanks!