Week 8 · Lab

Make a Platform-Style Game

Construct 3, using your own images

This one really is a game

The rules stay conventional.
The images don't.

Carried over from last week

The rules are the same jump-and-collide rules as any platformer.
So ask the other question instead: what does the player notice differently because the sprite is a photo of their kitchen, not a clean drawing?

Same reframe as always: not “what do you want them to see”, but “what do you want them to have to do or notice here.”

The actual constraint

Use your own images · sourced unconventionally

• completely unrelated photographs already on your harddrive or phone
• abstracted parts of photographs
• hand-drawn sprites in the Editor panel, even if you're not “good” at drawing
• text standing in for every sprite, background and platform, instead of an image

“What turns out, if a game is created using these very unconventional approaches? Unconventionality is the point.”, Obligatory Task 5

Step 1 · basic platformer, together

• platform behaviour
• solids
• camera
• jump
• collision
• collectibles
• restart
• win / end condition

Keep the shared example deliberately simple. This is tool literacy: the unconventional part comes from the images, not the rules.

Step 2 · choose your unconventional approach

What happens if a platformer is made of only text?

A game built entirely from words starts to look a lot like concrete poetry that you can walk on.

You don't need to resolve this. Just notice that the imagery constraint alone can drag a “simple platformer” toward something closer to visual/electronic literature, without breaking the assignment's own rules.

Before you continue, finish this sentence

Obligatory Task 5, submission

• Take screenshots of your platformer.
• Optional short explanation of your chosen approach.

Not extra assessment burden. Just thinking, made visible.