RPG Tutorial | Craft your dream Scratch Game | 1. The Player ⛹️

Let's code the best Tile Based RPG in Scratch (in the style of the Legend of Zelda a link to the Past, my dream Scratch Game Tutorial!). If you've followed my devlog, then you'll know what to expect. In this first easy episode I'll teach you how to code the player. We remix the starter asset project, create the basic game loop, player movement with speed normalisation for diagonals, and add player animation with walk cycles. We also get a glimpse of the amazing tile stamping engine that we will begin to build next episode - too cool! Who's with me!!!

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0:00 Intro
2:01 What’s in the Asset Starter Project
3:33 Remix and Setup
5:03 Scrolling game – PLAYER X, PLAYER Y
5:59 The Game Loop
8:54 Controls (Keyboard)
12:04 Basic Movement
13:30 Normalising Diagonal Speeds
17:42 Player Costumes & Direction
20:55 Player Animation
24:20 Idle costume
26:07 Outro

[ilcp]

Every time I reopen this project it took 3 to 5 minutes lol

[Katie-is-slay]

"HELLO FELLOW SCRATCHERS"

-the most comforting thing to hear before coding a game

[realausome]

You cant not love Griffpatch! He's a genius and he can make crazy things with such a basic coding language. I cannot understand how he does this with SCRATCH!

[pyrrhuloxia]

Dang bro just watching this series i got so much better at scratch. I'm currently working on a custom turnbased rpg combat system, and took a leaf from your tree and used a index to keep track of which option was currently being selected by my custom selector, using two other lists to keep track of the button's x and y, and using the option index, it's working FLAWLESSLY. you've been inspiring so much of my work, and it's amazing how well it's working. just wanted to say thanks!

[phil-phildc]

It's crazy to see how powerful Scratch is. I've been "coding" for a LONG my initial exposure to coding was in "Basic" and you have to code EVERY SINGLE THING in any game or program....like, how to show the main window...how to add menus, takes all of that boring and difficult stuff and lets you focus on the fun parts.

Your tutorials are AMAZING. Keep up the great

[DDP-Gaming]

Finally we start with this long awaited project! This will probably be able to match the Tile scrolling system series if not better

[PSVCHXPVTHXC]

This will prob never get seen but I was I'm 4th grade looking at tutorials like these and now I'm coding unity in 10th. These memories just fly by

[deidrasebastian]

YOU ARE THE BEST SCRATCHER!!! HOW DID YOU KNOW HOW TO CODE IN SCRATCH SO MUCH?!?!?!?!?!

[Sapphire_Buchan]

Griffpatch tutorials really help me deeply understant coding and helps make my project perfect

[ffjfam]

For someone who just released their platform game using his tutorial, I’m not surprised by how good this it.

[falafel_]

Finally, the most awaited moment in AAAALL of the griffpatch channel. This amazing tutorial for the RPG Tutorial Series! Amazing job griffpatch, for teaching us how to do such amazing games. Also all of us are impatient for the next amazing tutorial of the RPG, or maybe even the 4th episode for the text engine, who knows what the next tutorial will be!

[ammarturkistani]

I think I’m learning math from you not scratch

[chloecontarino]

Love all the work you are doing for the Scratch community! Keep it up!

[arjunbhumula]

Every time I open one of these tutorials, I am always amazed, finding you to show and explain the simplest way to do the most complicated thing. Thank you griffpatch, for making this awesome channel, that has helped me and many more.

[NitrousProductions]

Finally!!! I'm so excited for part 2! I've been following your text engine tutorial for this. Great work!

[pensantetuamaic]

it took 3 days of making the costumes + half of a day scripting but im proud of my project.
thx for this tutorial! it helped me alot.
hope you reach 1 million subs!

[erna]

Griffpatch be like: Lets make things complicated! :D

[Resseguie]

I love the simplicity of the player frame and base+frame costume selection. When I tried something similar in the past, I was trying to concatenate the costume name with a frame number. It worked but it got a bit hairy.

[blackhole]

at this rate you're going to make Scratch as popular as Python or C++ or others programming languages. Sometimes, I preffer code in Scratch than in python. Thanks for this education !

[aoifecreavin]

Hi Griffpatch I always play your games on scratch. I love Zelda and this is so much inspiration. You deserve all 192k subscribers you derserve 😀