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Intro playlist

Learn the basics of GDevelop and game creation. Start in a few minutes, and start making your own game today.

How To Go In-Depth

Learn in deep a feature of the game engine.

Tilemap Object

Tilemaps are efficient and easy to use, which makes them great for building out levels in your game. In this video we'll show how to use the new tilemap object in GDevelop, and some interesting things that can be done with it.

The Expression Builder

What it's used for and what sort's of things it's capable of. It also goes over a practical example of adding points to a UI object in a game.

In Depth Tutorial: Sprite

This video goes over the sprite object for the GDevelop game engine. Going over collision masks, points, and animations while explaining the use cases for those tools. These tutorials are designed to teach you how to make a game in GDevelop, a no-code, open-source, free, and easy game engine.

In Depth Tutorial: Platform(er)

This video goes over the platformer behavior. How to use it, and what sort of events relate to the behavior. We take you from a blank scene to having a moving animated platformer character. This will be useful for any game developers who are just starting out with the engine, or someone who might have missed something with the platformer behavior.

In Depth Tutorial: Top Down Behavior

This video goes over the top down movement behavior. How to use it, and what sort of conditions relate to the behavior. We show you the different styles of movement that can come from the behavior as well as how to achieve an isometric or 2.5D game effect with Z-ordering. This tutorial will be useful for any game developers using GDevelop, a no-code, open-source, free, and easy game-making app.

In Depth Tutorial: Particle Emitter

This video goes over the basics of the particle emitter object in GDevelop. What the various options do within the object page, and some examples of how to use it. These tutorials are designed to teach you how to make a game in GDevelop, a no-code, open-source, free, and easy game engine.

In Depth Tutorial: Physics Engine 2.0

This video goes over the basics of the physics engine in GDevelop. What the various options do within the behavior page, and some examples of how to use it. As well as how to make a basic brick breaker game. These tutorials are designed to teach you how to make a game in GDevelop, a no-code, open-source, free, and easy game making app.

In Depth Tutorial: Tweens (Squash, Stretch, and More)

This video teaches GDevelop users about the tween behavior, and briefly goes over some simple juicy game effects and animations. We show an example of how to do squash and stretch, the Mario game ghost, and the Mario game coin block. These tutorials are designed to teach you how to make a game in GDevelop, a no-code, open-source, free, and easy game engine.

Comment créer un jeu vidéo - Tutoriel GDevelop pour débutants

Cette vidéo passe en revue toutes les bases de la création d'un jeu de plateforme, des mouvements de base aux ennemis et aux effets sonores.

How To Make A Video Game

This video goes over all of the basics of creating a platformer game, from basic movement, to enemies and sound effects.

The Events

This video goes over the event system in GDevelop, and briefly shows how to navigate and organize your events.

Exporting Your Game

In this video we'll talk about exporting your game from GDevelop. This video will show people how to set their game icons and thumbnails, as well as picking their mobile game properties.

Built-In Behaviors And Synergies

This video goes over all of the "built-in" behaviors in the engine, briefly showing how they work, as well as a number of behaviors that work along with those behaviors to create interesting mechanics without needing to use events.

10 Best Game Development Extensions

Extensions make game development a LOT easier, giving you functionality that you would otherwise have to create yourself. Saving you time and energy in the process of developing your game. This video was created to show you the most commonly used extensions in the GDevelop game engine, which is a no-code, open-source, free, and easy game engine.

The Best Level Select Set-Up

The way you decide to organize the levels in your game can really set you up for success or failure. Before you create the 100+ levels for your game, follow this video's format to save yourself from gamedev hell.

Publish on gd.games

This video shows how easy it is to publish your game on gd.games, formerly known as liluo, GDevelop's game hosting platform.

The Easiest Way To Create Menus

Every gamedev knows that setting up menus can be a really time consuming task, but with GDevelop's new custom objects, it's one of the quickest parts of the game making process.

🇫🇷 Intro: Optimisations

Comment optimiser votre jeu vidéo pour gagner en rapidité et en volume de fichiers.

How To:

Quickly randomize the sounds with pitch.

How To:

Round a decimal number.

How To:

Cause screen shake.

How To:

Fire a bullet.

How To:

Make an infinite scrolling background.

How To:

Make an object move.

How To:

Center camera on object.

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Move toward the mouse position.

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Fix blurry pixel art.

Intermediate playlist

Learn deeper concept related to game creation with GDevelop: make multiple levels, add leaderboards to your game, touch controls, save and load, use the physics engine... These videos are the best way to see everything you can do with GDevelop!

Official examples

Follow these examples of game tutorials designed to teach you how to create a game from scratch.

Game Mechanics

Learn how to quickly create essential game mechanics.

3D Physics

The newest GDevelop feature makes 3D physics possible in GDevelop. Physics games are inherently fun, and this feature makes creating physics games just as much fun.

Breaking Down Game Mechanics

Game development seems complicated, but it's much easier when you break your game mechanics into manageable chunks, instead of thinking of them as one big mechanic. This video tackles the issue from the lens of developers working with GDevelop.

Structures And Arrays

This video goes over the 2 types of variables: structure and array variables. Quickly explaining and using them both in an example, displaying the values in a text object on screen.

Mobile Game Controls

Everything from pinch and zoom to joystick controls, GDevelop has wide range of tools for controlling your mobile game.

Corriger les bugs de son jeu vidéo

On vous montre une méthode pour corriger les bugs auxquels vous pourriez être confronté.

6 Ways To Make Your Game Better

Improve game feel (Or Juice) by doing 4 of these 6 things, and then the other 2 will help you get and retain players for your game. Wikipedia says that "Game feel (sometimes referred to as "game juice") is the intangible, tactile sensation experienced when interacting with video games." But there are a number of common things that developers do the make games feel more fun to interact with. So in this video we'll explain those to help you make a better game, get more players for your game, and retain those players for longer.

Intermediate: Leaderboards

This video shows you how to add a leaderboard to your game in the GDevelop game engine. How to set up the leaderboards, customize them, trigger them with events, and display them on screen. These tutorials are designed to teach you how to make a game in GDevelop, a no-code, open-source, free, and easy game engine.

Effects That Improve Your Game

Particle effects, tweens, object and camera shake, all manner of visual effects are used to turn bland static games in to more interesting titles.

🇫🇷 Gérer des points de passage (checkpoint)

Comment gérer des checkpoints avec GDevelop.

🇫🇷 Utiliser les calques et événements externes

Comment utiliser les calques, événements externes et objets globaux pour gagner en productivité avec GDevelop.

🇫🇷 Bitmap Text et Tilemap

Les objets Bitmap Text et Tiledmap et comment les utiliser.

🇫🇷 Intégrer des commandes tactiles dans un jeu vidéo

Comment ajouter le support pour un jeu vidéo mobile.

🇫🇷 Modifier l'état d'un objet

Comment modifier l'apparence d'un objet en fonction des actions du joueur en utilisant des variables.

🇫🇷 Utiliser les animations

Cette vidéo montre les actions et les conditions liées aux animations pour un objet sprite. Comment changer une animation par son nom ou son numéro d'animation. Ceci vous explique également les états d'un objet avec des variables.

🇫🇷 Le moteur Physics 2.0 - Les événements

Cette vidéo montre comment utiliser les événements en lien avec le comportement Physics 2.0.

🇫🇷 Les expressions couramment utilisées

Comment et quels sont les expressions les plus couramment utilisées.

Le contrôle de la caméra

Comment utiliser la caméra à travers différents cas d'utilisation.

Utiliser les chronomètres (timer) et les pauses (wait)

Comment utiliser les chronomètres (timer) et les pauses (wait).

Intermediate: Saving & Loading (Storage)

As you transcend the basics of GDevelop, you'll want to have things stay the same each time someone opens your game. In this video, we take a look at how to accomplish exactly this!

Advanced playlist

These advanced tutorials go over advanced ways of using the game engine, and help you create more complicated games.

Inventory system playlist

Learn how to create a powerful and flexible inventory system using structure variables and custom objects in this step-by-step game development tutorial series.

Multijoueur en temps réel

Comment rendre son jeu multijoueur en quelques étapes.

Managing Resources And Loading Screens

This video goes over resource loading and how to create a custom loading screen to show between scenes.

🇫🇷 Scores et parties : sauvegarde et chargement avec GDevelop

Comment enregistrer vos scores ou vos parties avec GDevelop.

How to use Javascript

How can you use Javascript in GDevelop?

5 Ways To Get Your First 10,000 Players

Get your game in front of a larger audience by doing these 5 things. Developing a good game is only half the battle, getting that good game in front of more people increases the chance your game will be a hit. Marketing and sharing your game can be just as much work as creating the game in the first place.

Monétiser facilement son jeu vidéo

4 façons de monétiser facilement un jeu vidéo avec GDevelop.

🇫🇷 Créer un jeu de plateforme avec GDevelop

Comment créer un jeu de plateforme avec GDevelop.

Faire un jeu comme Zelda

Du fait de l'excellente réputation dont bénéficie Zelda chez les joueurs de jeux vidéo, il semble important de passer en revue certains des mécanismes qui ont contribué à son succès. On vous montre ainsi comment sont gérés le mouvement, les états d'animation, la profondeur et les masques de collision.

Créer un jeu Tower Defense

Apprenez à créer un jeu de tower defense similaire à Bloons TD ou Kingdom Rush. Découvrez comment mettre en œuvre des mécanismes de jeu comme générer des vagues d'ennemis, les déplacer vers sur des chemins et utiliser les nouvelles conditions/actions de type tableau.

Make a Roguelike Game

Roguelikes are deceptively simple to make. The two main features of modern day roguelikes are permadeath and randomized levels, so once you've created the base mechanics of the game you can just layer on new things to that core gameplay loop.

Make a Cookie Clicker

Idle clicker games are incredibly popular, and surprisingly easy to make. So in this video we show how to add clicker game mechanics to your game with GDevelop.

Make an Asteroids Game

Learn how to make the Asteroids game! Starting from zero, these videos will teach you how to make this game.

Créer un jeu vidéo pas à pas.

Créez un jeu de défense contre des vagues d'ennemis en utilisant GDevelop. Dans cette série de didacticiels adaptés aux débutants, nous aborderons les mouvements des joueurs, le tir d'une balle, la logique de l'ennemi et l'apparition des ennemis.

Make a Mobile Lane Racing Game

Creating a cyberpunk racing game with mobile touch screen controls. Game developers will be familiar with this obstacle dodging gameplay, but with good art and some game juice, you can create a compelling gameplay experience.

Make a Sokoban Game

Sokoban games are block pushing puzzle games, where the levels are small, and the player needs to figure out which sequence of pushes will result in them winning the game.

Créer un jeu du type metroidvania

Les jeux Metroidvania ont tous une chose en commun, les mondes du jeu consistent en une série de portes et de clés. Dans cette vidéo, nous montrons à quel point il est facile de créer ce genre de système dans GDevelop en utilisant des variables booléennes pour débloquer des capacités, franchir des obstacles et déverrouiller des portes.

Créer un jeu Sim City like

Les jeux de construction de villes comme Sim City comportent de nombreux mécanismes individuels qui s'assemblent pour créer quelque chose d'amusant. Dans cette vidéo, nous allons montrer à quel point les bases de la création d'un jeu de construction de ville peuvent être simples.

Make a Game Like Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley is a great game created by a solo developer, and we thought it would be useful for game developers to see a video explaining some of it's mechanics, and how to add those mechanics to their game in GDevelop.

Geometry Monster Tutorial

Make a hyper-casual mobile game where the player must grab shapes and avoid bombs.

Create A Pokémon Style Monster Tamer Game

With Pokemon scarlet and violet coming out, we decided show game developers how to go about creating a top down rpg game in GDevelop. With top down movement and turn based battles, similar to pokemon.

🇫🇷 Créer un jeu de plateforme avec GDevelop

Comment créer un jeu de plateforme avec GDevelop.

Créer un jeu de plateforme avec GDevelop - 2ème Partie

La 2ème partie consacrée à la création d'un jeu de plateforme avec GDevelop.

🇫🇷 Créer un jeu de plateforme avec GDevelop - 3ème Partie

La 3ème partie consacrée à la création d'un jeu de plateforme avec GDevelop.

🇫🇷 Créer un jeu d'asteroïdes avec GDevelop

Comment créer un jeu d’astéroïdes avec GDevelop.

🇫🇷 Créer un jeu d'asteroïdes avec GDevelop - la suite

Voici la suite de la vidéo qui vous montre comment créer un jeu d’astéroïdes avec GDevelop sans programmer.

Platformer Tutorial

Make a platform game from scratch.

Space Shooter Tutorial

Make a space shooter game from scratch.

Tank Shooter Tutorial

Make a simple tank shooter game from scratch.

Endless Runner Tutorial

Make a simple game where the player must jump on platforms for as long as possible.

Endless Car Game Tutorial

Create a simple game where you must dodge the cars on the road.

Breakout Tutorial

Create a simple breakout game where you must destroy all the bricks on the screen.

5 Conseils et erreurs à éviter pour créer son jeu correctement.

Create a playable game for everyone in an intuitive and comprehensive way with these five tips and common mistakes to avoid to enhance your game. How to keep the players playing longer your game, why a good intro for your game is important, and how to make gameplay moments more immersive by getting players emotionally engaged.

Best Practices When Making Games

Creating a game is an exciting journey that opens up a world of possibilities. These best practices when making games guide will help you to bring our vision to life and create the best experiences for our players. Let's explore the essential knowledge you need to make your first game good and entertaining.

Sauvegarder tous vos objets en une seule fois

On vous montre comment sauvegarder tous les objets de votre scène une seule instruction sans coder

How To Do Game Feel Right

Game feel, or game juice, is that extra bit of polish that helps make a game go from "good" to great. In this video we'll cover and show examples of the different effects that add to game feel.

Creating Random Level Design

Randomly generated content in video games can create a lot of variety for your players. In this video we talk about 3 different ways to randomly generate levels in your game.

How To Make A Boss Fight

This video shows 1 of the many ways there are to set up a boss fight. It goes over randomly picking behaviors from a set list you've created, and expanding on that list of boss behaviors and as the boss loses health.

3D No-Code Game - A GDevelop Community Extension

It is possible to create a 3D game using GDevelop with an extension that was created by PANDAKO, who is a long time GDevelop user and community member.

Add Melee Beat'em Up Combat

This video shows game developers using GDevelop how to easily implement melee combat in their game. Showing two different kinds of attacks, and how to make enemies attack the player.

Easy RNG That Has A Big Effect In Your Game

RNG is a useful tool for gamedevs, especially with roguelikes or games with repetition as part of their game loop. Loot drops, enemy behavior, and level generation can all be forms of randomization. And in this video we tackle some of the simplest forms of RNG to help get your game started.

Add Damage, Armor, Dodge Chance, Etc.

This new update makes managing the health and stats of your characters, enemies, and object in game much easier! We show how to make a juicy hit, and then use the health extension to modify how the hit works with the player.

Create Enemy AI

We go over a number of simple game enemies, and then a couple more advanced versions that use similar mechanics to enemies in Mario and Hollow Knight. We create AI for patrolling enemies, flying enemies, and enemies that wait in place to attack the player.