Defold Tutorial #4 -- Movement Techniques HD

DEFOLD TUTORIAL #4 - MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES Within this 4th Defold Tutorial, I’d like to work through several alternative means for moving a Game Object around the play area, to include: 1. Using the keyboard’s left/right/up/down arrow keys to initiate Game Object movement; 2. Enabling a user to click (or touch) a location on the screen and have the Game Object move to that location; and 3. Having a pre-planned path defined within the game area which the Game Object follows during its movement. When complete, the project developed during this tutorial will allow a user to be able to move the Wizard up/down/left/right using the keyboard arrow keys. The Wizard is constrained to the bottom portion of the game screen, and his present location is highlighted within a text field on the lower right side of the screen. Also a Monkey can be moved by clicking (or touching) the cursor anywhere on the screen. Using the go.animate() feature of Defold, the Monkey sprite will move to that new location — with the current position (x/y) shown in the lower right text field. Lastly, a six leg path has been drawn on the playing screen, and the Orkkey sprite travels along this path at a constant speed. - - - - - DOWNLOAD PROJECT FILES - I have placed a zipfile which contains the full set of project files on to a shared Google Drive folder. You can access it here: Defold Tutorial Project Downloads https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XOQbzHt0Mg0fxAvYBN1ysNCPbxKvgImQ?usp=sharing - - - - - A text version of this tutorial is also available at https://www.tactxstudios.com Attribution: The images used in this tutorial are all free assets provided by the following sources: (1) background image is from www.clipartkid.com; (2) the Wizard and Ork are provided by www.craftpix.net; and (3) the Monkey is provided by www.gameartguppy.com. I strongly recommend each of these sites. I hope you found this tutorial helpful -- please pass along any feedback in the comments below. All the best - David