Let's build a digital addon for our game...
Mystery Mansion!
01 Building a Digital Deduction Sheet
Let's create a custom deduction sheet for our boardgame in GDevelop!
WHAT WE ARE BUILDING:
We are going to build a digital deduction sheet customized to our Mystery Mansion board game. This can be used in place of creating a paper deduction sheet and save on waste!
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 deduction sheet!
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 deduction sheet for? Can you think of anyways to make it better? 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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