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Build a 2D Side-Scrolling Game with AI — Art, from Zero
Taught in Chinese. The Udemy link includes a coupon code. Confirm it is applied and check the final price on Udemy before purchasing.
This page introduces the course in English. Recorded lessons are taught in Chinese; available lessons, prices and refund terms follow the purchase platform.
Follow Lao Liu from characters and animation to scenes and lighting. Turn generated images into assets that work in Godot, and build an early, playable 2D platformer demo you can show to others.
Who it is for
No drawing or game-development experience is required. This course is for beginners who want to make something of their own, and indie developers looking to improve their art workflow. Basic computer skills and a willingness to build, check and revise are needed.
From images to a playable scene
Visual direction and consistency → character actions and image sequences → layered scenes and engine integration → scene lighting, character normal maps and effects → project packaging. Practise giving an AI agent context, breaking down tasks and checking its results.
A demo and a reusable workflow
The course includes the source project for its practice demo, so you can examine the structure and keep experimenting. The methods come from Lao Liu’s real projects, including Travelling Home: Ever After, whose Steam demo is available. The course exercise is a separate project.
Full course plan · 30 lessons
Three introductory previews, seven practical chapters and a closing section. This is the full course plan; check the platform course page for currently available lessons, previews and update progress.
Free previews
- 0-1 Course introduction
- 0-2 How games are made
- 0-3 How 2D platformers work
Chapter 1 · Getting started
- 1-1 Introduction to AI agents
- 1-2 Godot and toolchain setup
- 1-3 Choosing an art style
- 1-4 Visual harmony and consistency
- 1-5 Prototyping and pipeline planning
Chapter 2 · Characters
- 2-1 Character animation principles
- 2-2 Generating pose references
- 2-3 Generating character animation
- 2-4 Converting animation to image sequences
- 2-5 Refining image sequences
- 2-6 Image sequences and camera adjustments
Chapter 3 · Scenes
- 3-1 Background production principles
- 3-2 Splitting backgrounds into layers and adjusting them in the engine
- 3-3 Seamless backgrounds
Chapter 4 · Scene lighting
- 4-1 Scene lighting principles
- 4-2 Candlelight
- 4-3 Volumetric lighting
- 4-4 Foreground backlighting
Chapter 5 · Character lighting
- 5-1 Character lighting principles
- 5-2 Creating normal maps
- 5-3 Integrating characters into scenes
Chapter 6 · Environmental effects
- 6-1 Fog
- 6-2 Candle flames
Chapter 7 · Dynamic lighting
- 7-1 Generating actions
- 7-2 Generating lighting effects
Closing
- 8-1 Packaging the project
- 8-2 Summary
Before you start
Recorded lessons taught in Chinese. Install the required software and register your own AI agent accounts; agent subscriptions and usage are paid separately. The course does not include one-to-one support, personal project diagnosis, code debugging, work done for you, installation or account setup. There are no scheduled live Q&A sessions.
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