anybody, could you teach me the steps on how to make a top down game? i am using free edition
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First @Ifureadthisimop Welcome to the forums and thanks for posting and joining our community and second allow me to help as much as I can.
It’s a bit complicated so I hope you really want this. First if all you need to know what code to use for a top down character which I’ll give in a minute.
Second I’d make a pixel art tile set of soemthing you can make houses out of or soemthing.
For example a brick wall, or a wooden wall and then the different tiles for that like some folksong images bellow:
Similar to a Sprite Sheet like this. Once you’ve done a good few tiles work on a chacarter and then go start coding.
Use this example for his movement:
Here is an example of a sword or melee attack:
For inspiration for pixel art I would go here and also use this amazing free website:
If you need anything else I’m usually avaliable
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thanks The_kodex!
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this is what I got the first time i tried making a top down
Just remember to have this repeating box enabled or the movement will be very choppy
This could help, it’s pretty much like @fighting_game’s just in case you want to use it.
You can copy and import this into your game.
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what will that last part do?
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So you can copy the text/code and import and paste it into your game.
Both would work, but with Darian_K’s design when any key is pressed up the velocity will be set to zero. Actually every top-down movement code I use, I never use the set where you can choose either arrow or wasd, lol. It’s always one or the other.
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The one I posted is actually @grazer’s from his Apocalypse Arena, I just copied it and added it to my menu, and it has helped me so much!
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I’m struggling with getting the environment to act like a top down game? My sprite will only move along a flat horizontal plain. I have my setup the same as the first screenshot from @fighting_game
Send your game link so we can see what is going on. Have you set your “ground” object to non-solid?
I realized what it was! My I set my game gravity to 0 so now I can move freely!
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Nice! It’s great that you figured out the problem for yourself. Next time you have a question, you can make a new topic instead of posting on topics that are years old. 
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