Asteroid Prototype: DEV LOG 1

1/04/2025: playing around with physics and controls

hello! The first steps I went through when making my next prototype (astroids style game) is by implementing the basic movement mechanics. This time I wanted to mess around with the inbuilt physics behavior on gdevelop.

I base most of this code from "Asteroids - GDevelop documentation", first i added the behavior and then changed the gravity to zero to prevent the player from falling off the screen. 

Then on my event sheet, i made it so that when the w key is pressed the player will move at the force it is facing, a and d is to turn the player using torque which is a feature exclusive to the physics behavior.

Then I made the player sprites, one for when its idle and one when its moving.

Finally to end off what I have done so far, I added the bullet fire mechanic using this code:

Basically what this code does is create an object (the bullet) at a specific point, I made that point at the top of the star.

I also made it so when the bullet is shot, it will be there for 6 seconds before deleting itself to reduce entities in the game, so it runs better. All together my game looks like this!:

Tommorows focus will be implementing the asteroids and their ability to damage and get damaged by the player ^__^.

Kier signing out.