GDevelop Documentation

GDevelop allows you to simply and quickly create your own video games.
Just fire up the editor and start creating, no programming knowledge required!

To start using GDevelop, read the Getting Started page and the Tutorials.
You can also open the examples and templates provided with GDevelop or refer to this online guide when needed.

Overview

• Getting Started
• Mechanisms and concepts

Using the editors

• Overview of the interface
• The Project Manager
  • Extensions
  • Global variables
• Main editors:
  • The Image Bank
  • The Scene Editor
    • Edit mode (See also Layers and Scene variables)
    • Preview mode (See also the profiler and the debugger for native games)
  • The Object Editor
    • Behaviors of objects
    • Edit groups of objects
  • The Event Editor (and the Event Store)
  • External events
  • External layouts
• Additional editors:
  • The Expression Editor
  • The Text Editor

Built-in features and official extensions

• Operators
• Functions
  • Built-in functions
• Events:
  • Standard events
  • Comment events
  • Link events
  • For each object events
  • Repeat events
  • While events
  • Events groups
  • Javascript events (for HTML5 games)
• Objects:
  • Features for all objects
  • Sprite objects
  • Tiled Sprites
  • Text objects
  • Text entry objects
  • Shape Painter objects
  • Particle system (for native games)
  • Tile map objects (for native games)
  • Lights (for native games)
  • 3D Boxes objects (for native games)
  • AdMob objects (for HTML5 games)
• Behaviors for objects:
  • Physics behavior
  • Pathfinding
  • Destroy outside screen
  • Platformer objects and platforms
  • Draggable object
  • Top-down movement

• Other features:
  • Linked objects
  • Storage
  • Audio
  • Function events (for native games)
  • AES encryption (for native games)
  • Common dialogs (for native games)
  • Timed events (for native games)
  • Network (deprecated, for native games)
    • Automatic Network Updater Automatism

Publishing games

* [[gdevelop:documentation:manual:distribution:compilation|Compile your native game]]
* [[gdevelop:documentation:manual:native_android_export|Export your native game to Android (experimental)]]
* [[gdevelop:tutorials:howtodistribute|Export your HTML5 game]]
* [[gdevelop:tutorials:howtoexportwithcocos2dx|Export your HTML5 game to Android/iOS/Mac/Windows using Cocos2d (experimental)]]

Troubleshooting

• I found a bug
• Two objects are flickering/An object disappeared

About GDevelop

• About GDevelop
• License
• Contribute
• Updates and Revision history

If you experience problems using this software, please let us know by posting on the dedicated Forum or send an email to CompilGames@gmail.com. Before you do that, please read this documentation carefully and search on the forum if the issue is not already reported.

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