Building "Role Playing" Browser Games
Codeless Game Construction using Construct 2 or Construct 3.
This expanded chapter from the Construct Starter Kit Collection leads you through "White Labeled" Role Playing Game development. This tutorial uses both Construct3 & Construct2 encoding. It supplies client-side & php "back-end" encoding. These advanced "full-stack" development topics are for anyone interested in RPG "trade-secrets" development.
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Siloed RPG "trade secrets" revealed!
Discover how to create Role-Playing Games using the methods in this expanded chapter from the Construct Game Starter Kit Collection. When you finish this workbook, you will have a production pipeline ready to create as many different RPG games as your imagination can dream up! This is the tool I use in my game production studio that solves RPG Data-intensive operations! You'll also get bonus content, downloads, Construct, PHP, and SQL source code examples, game variation tweaks, and references on how to do everything that works and does not work within this game design workbook. You could copy and paste any examples into your productions and then modify those resources with your bespoke artwork. This workbook will guide you in creating several RPG Game Mechanics (GM) styles as stand-alone or "Content-as-a-Service" (CaaS) by using an innovative approach from "Headless Game Design". We will use those game mechanics, front-end display mechanisms, and these development methods found in the Headless Game Design. By the end of this workbook, you should have a fully functional "RPG" game prototype - not just a copy of my game, but your very own product using your gaming assets. A supporting website is also available to download the bonus content included with your workbook's purchase. This extraordinarily comprehensive guide will teach you how to:
- Use either Construct 2 OR Construct 3 as the "Front-end" User's Interface Experience (UIX) for stand-alone RPGs AND if you have access to a back-end database server, create an RPG REST API for Business-to-Business access.
- Discover how to create "Single Player / Single- OR Multi-Avatar" RPG games exclusively on the client side without a backend server! Increase your game sales with this single feature alone! Live examples demonstrate this feature about "what works" and "what DOES NOT work".
- How to create Loyal Fans and B2B Licensed access within a "Syndicated Business Network" to generate bespoke modules and game expansions for "Syndication Affiliates Only". This is my "Trade Secret" since 1997 with 18 million game access!
- Automatically generate various new Quests with innovative features dynamically.
- Integrate your RPGs with "Interaction Fiction" (IF) Dialogues, and other game genres.
- Design your RPGs with various styles of exchangeable "Conflict Resolutions Modules".
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Avatar is an adorable cartoon sketch of my wife. My 48th anniversary is this coming Sept 1, 2026!
Stephen Gose, Ph.D. Information Systems (honorary) (and second-generation German) is a retired Professor Emeritus with a 41-year career as a certified network engineer, and "Certified Cisco Academy Instructor" (CCAI) since 2002. He is listed in the Who's Who for Information Technology for his directly related work for the Internet backbones in the Caribbean, Netherlands, Israel, and Russia. He was awarded "Letters of Appreciation" from AT&T, and the German, Israeli, Dutch, and Russian Governments. Steve has nearly three decades of international "teaching and conference lecturing" in both Local-Area and Wide-Area Networks, network security, Internet backbones, software engineering, and program/project management. He is a retired US Army Signal Corps Officer. He earned, in 2014, the ITT Technical Institute's "Instructor of the Year" out of 8,000 instructors across 144 campuses throughout the USA.
He graduated from Grand Canyon University with his first B.A. in Religions and Music Education, then a B.S. in Business Admin. from the University of Maryland, and an M.B.A. in International Management from Liberty University.
He is currently pursuing his Th.D. He has been a licensed minister since 1972 and a missionary to Okinawa, Japan. He earned the US Army Chaplain Outstanding Service Award in 1983.
In his spare time(?), Steve enjoys creating online casual games, software engineering, and managing his online gaming businesses.
My driving theme: "Always stay humble and kind"
His website is: https://www.Stephen-Gose.com/
His game showcase is: http://www.renown-games.com
His theology website: http://kingdomofgodprinciples.com/
Game Support Site: http://makingbrowsergames.com/
Review my profile on LinkedIn.com: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-gose/
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IPart II: Production & Encoding
1Lesson 2.2: Launching a C2 Game Project
- 1.1About Your Project:
- 1.2Project Settings:
- 1.3Configuration Settings
- 1.4Adding Game Phase Layouts
- Layers inside a Layout
- 1.5Game Project Organization
- 1.6Comparing your code
2Lesson 2.3: Launching a C3 Game Project
- 2.1About Your Project
- 2.2Project Settings: Color Theme, Start-up & Display
- 2.3C3 Advanced, Compatibility Settings, & Editor!
- 2.4Adding Game Phase Layouts
- Layers inside a Layout
- 2.5Game Project Organization
- 2.6Comparing your code
- 2.7Create Your Own Adventures (CYOA)
- > Design Step #1:
- > Design Step #2:
- > Design Step #3:
3Project #1 — “St. George & the Dragon”
- 3.1The Legend … a “Disciple of Renown”™
- 3.2The Legend of a “Disciple of Renown”1
- 3.3RPG Workbook’s “Project #1” — Overview
4“Epic Battles” — JS Analyzed
- 4.1“Combat Encounter” — Construct Layout
- > “Health Bar” Progressions
- > HUD feedback
- > Gaining New Skills & Abilities
- > Inventory Management
- 4.2JavaScript “Combat Encounter”
- Copyright Fundamentals — The Reserved Rights Explained.
- > JS Variables
- > Dragon AI & User Interface (UI)
- Newly revised Help text …
- > Combat Management
- > “Possible” Game Session Endings
5Construct’s “Final Release”
- 5.1Importing Modified Artwork Assets
- 5.2Consolidating Menus
- 5.3Background Story (optional?)
- 5.4Exploration Map
- 5.5Avatar Editor
- 5.6Game Configuration Layout
- 5.7Game Conclusion and Scores
- IIPart IV: Expanding Your RPG Prototype
- > Replayability Summary: the ability to …
6Lesson 9: Adding Unique Features.
- 6.1“Play Again?”
- > Lesson Instructions
- > Reset the Global Variables.
- 6.2A Better “Game Start”
- 6.3Integrating Multiple Languages??
- 6.4Importing Language.json …
- 6.5Don’t tell me … Show Me!
- How Languages Got Their Directionality by Steph Koyfman April 28, 2021
- Right-To-Left Languages
- Top-To-Bottom Languages
- Content languages market position report.
- Compare Who uses the Internet as compared to their language.
- 6.6Main Menu as a “Picture Gallery”?
- 6.7“Levels & Campaigns” Layout
- 6.8“Create Your Own Adventures” (CYOA)
- 6.9Mobile User Interfaces — placement & size
- > Touch & Mouse Controls
- “Dynamically Detecting Gamer Inputs”
7Lesson 10: Quests & Chance Encounters
- 7.1Inserting Chance Encounters
- 7.2Inserting new Quests
- 7.3Saving & Loading Game Sessions & Scores
- IIIWhat’s next?
- “How to publish a game on the web??”
8Game Distribution & Marketing
- 8.1Introduction: 8-Step Deployment Method.
- FGL.com
- 8.2Port to a Console
- 8.3Selling Directly — The Advantages
- Shareably (SBLY) looking to rent your games
- 8.4Book Review Protocol
- 8.5Tell the world about your game!
- Appendix
More Resources …
- “You don’t know JS Yet” by Kyle Simpson
- Construct Demo Tutorials
Appendix: Game Developer Tool Kits
- Artwork Resources
- Selling your Game Artwork & Assets
- JavaScript Garden
Additional Appendices
Appendix: Making 3D & WebXR Games!
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