Skills matrix

Use this table to find examples of techniques used in the tutorials. Some skills require more than one stage or sub-stage. The links below point to the start of the tutorial for the skill.

	How-to	Pong	Incoming	Landers	Spotter	Worm
Adding graphics to a project		Stage 2	Stage 2	Stage 1	Stage 2a, 3	Stage 3
Animations			Stage 3	Stage 1
Changing animation on sprite direction change	Link >
Collision handling between objects		Stage 7	Stage 6	Stage 6b	Stage 3, 4d	Stage 6
Countdown timer	Link >
Creating a game object		Stage 3	Stage 3	Stage 3a	Stage 4a
Despawning objects			Stage 6	Stage 6c
Displaying the score		Stage 8
Files	Link >
Fonts	Link >
Firing				Stage 5
Hiding the mouse						Stage 8
Keyboard inputs		Stage 4		Stage 2		Stage 4b
Mouse inputs			Stage 5		Stage 4
Menus, interfaces, multiple screens & GUIs	Link >				Stage 1a, 2	Stage 1, 2
Message passing between objects		Stage 8	Stage 6	Stage 5	Stage 4c
Moving kinematic game objects		Stage 5	Stage 3d	Stage 2
Particle effects	Link >			Stage 6
Preventing objects leaving the screen		Stage 6		Stage 4
Rotating sprites manually	Link >
Spawning multiple objects			Stage 4	Stage 3b	Stage 4
Sounds	Link >	Stage 9
Swarm/grouping objects as one				Stage 3
Starting a new game		Stage 1	Stage 1		Stage 1	Stage 1
Time to live for objects	Link >
Tiles, 2D platform levels and spritesheets						Stage 3, 4, 5
Tilemap collisions	Link >

Command reference

A full list of commands from Defold.com