Let's build a digital addon for our game...Lucky Life!
01 Building a Digital Spinner
Let's create a custom spinner for our boardgame in GDevelop!
WHAT WE ARE BUILDING:
We are going to build a digital spinner customized to our Lucky Life board game. This can be used in place of creating a paper spinnner and can even used to create different spinners!
Load Gdevelop & Create New Empty Project
- Open GDevelop and click on "Create a Game" from the File menu
- Select "Empty Project" to start a new project from scratch
Add Main UI
- Add Headers and Game Name
Add Player Score Trackers
- Add in UI to add/remove from player score
Add Advanced Tracking
- Add the UI to track game "rounds"
- Calculate "round" scores
- Add "round" score to total score
- Add Game Over States
Preview the Scene
- Preview and Test the Scene
Fine Tuning
- Let's fine tune what we built
02 Expanding on it
Check out some additional features we can add to our spinner!
Iterate and Expansion
- Iterate
Explore more tutorials from GDevelop
- Check out GDevelop Documentation wiki here
03 Your Turn
What other games can you make a spinner for? Can you think of any new features that would make score keeping easier? What about adding sounds and animations?
Get inspired
Check out these games to modify or recreate to explore more ways to use RNG in games:
Build fast
Use these a template to kickstart your game...add elements and try manipulating RNG to introduce luck into your game.
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