GAME PROGRAMMING FROM ZERO TO PLAYABLE

You can make a character move. Can you turn that first success into a complete, testable 2D game?
For beginners, the difficult part is often not one line of code. It is making controls, collisions, collectibles, score, health, menus, and level transitions work together-and knowing how to find the fault when they do not. A series of disconnected demonstrations may never answer the most important question: what makes a project truly playable?
This hands-on introductory course walks you from an empty editor project toward a small top-down collection-and-avoidance game. You create a player, collect objects, avoid patrolling hazards, unlock exits, and move through three increasingly demanding rooms. Every new feature has a defined responsibility and a result you can verify before moving on.
Inside, you will learn how to:

• Plan clear gameplay rules, reachable levels, and specific win and loss conditions.
• Understand reusable scenes, scripting fundamentals, vectors, and reliable keyboard movement.
• Implement collisions, pickups, signals, timers, patrols, scoring, health, and level progression.
• Create status displays, title and pause menus, end screens, animation, and sound feedback.
• Use worked examples, checkpoints, practice problems, and project snapshots to test what you build.
• Debug repeatable failures, tune challenge and readability, and check an exported desktop build.