How to Design a Level for Appel

Do you want to join the fun and design awesome community levels for the Appel Platformer by Griffpatch on Scratch? In this video we are going to cover creating a simple level, all the editor controls as well as the more advanced topics including automating moving platforms and mashers!
The Appel Game: scratch.mit.ed...
Community Levels: scratch.mit.ed...
Covered in this tutorial: Editing Levels, tile placement, rotation, level creation, enemy placement, trampolines, mashers, eye pop-tarts, Conveyer-belts, and lots more besides!
Appel is a game developed in the Scratch Programming language by griffpatch and was released in December 2020
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[@Murnjendoof_too]

Dang... no way to change the colour of the level, or make the background anything other than a boring flat plane? I always hate when games have stuff in the pre-made levels that can't be done in the level editor. Oh well...

[@griffpatch]

It can all be done in the editor, well except the colour hue which required you to go into the chive and set the hue variables...

[@Murnjendoof_too]

@@griffpatch Thanks for your reply... I am a bit confused though. By "background" I was referring to the grey silhouette hills that appear behind the levels in the story mode, which are replaced with a grey flat plane in levels that are created in the level editor. I didn't see a way to change those in this video. Also, if I change the hue of the level, will that change be encoded in the shareable level code, or do all loaded levels just have the default green hue?

[@griffpatch]

@@Murnjendoof_too Just press G to toggle the ground type at the mouse cursor :D - and yes, once you set the HUE, and HUE2 (see them on the far right of the first sprite) they will be encoded with the level permanently until changes here again.

[@Murnjendoof_too]

@@griffpatch Great, thank you so much!

[@birdieW-79]

yeah🔴

[@thefiresnakevenom2]

Really happy to see it finally out on Scratch! I had a great time beta-testing it more than a month prior to its release and can tell that work effort paid off with insane quality!

[@jaelynfriendstoca9393]

onnnn

[@explosionimplosion4679]

Recap: (x is in frames if it's an amount of time) gx: Group x dx: Delay x sx: speed x (Pixels per frame) ax: Max acceleration yx: Y vel for springs

[@NewtYT]

Most KZbinrs these days create over edited short videos. Griffpatch, on the other hand, creates videos over 20 minutes with moderate editing. Imagine an adult spending most of his time creating and editing videos for a programming language originally meant for kids! Hats off to you, griffpatch! 😀

[@QuantumScratcher]

I make shorter videos with low editing.

[@tiberiusfdaapproved5350]

This man literally just mentioned checkpoints and then said, "I won't need them" I am at a loss of words for this man's statements

[@xxzinxx67]

this, my friends, is why you follow griffpatch

[@langstonreese7077]

lol

[@yoshihome]

i did 7 years ago

[@cristianospohr69]

Exactly Dude.

[@deleted_handle]

Follow him at night as he's going home.

[@RonicTheEgg]

*that's called stalking*

[@Loev06]

Amazing game! It feels really complete. I really like how you combine great gameplay with amazing graphics and UI (to the point that you make a really user-friendly level editor). I know this sounds weird, but one of my favourite things about this game are the black borders, and the method of creating them. xD I have one suggestion: Maybe you could add a tag for the flag for it to be optional if the screen can scroll further to the right? I can imagine some people wanting to put their finish in the middle of the map, only accessible with a key, or to make some kind of a maze that ends in the middle.

[@Loev06]

@Lucas Valentine exactly

[@DuckGoose9254]

Imagine griffpatch making a 30 minute video on Appel, the greatest creature on Scratch

[@bowlingalleypizza]

But he has!

[@DuckGoose9254]

@@bowlingalleypizza it's a joke dude

[@bowlingalleypizza]

oh

[@bowlingalleypizza]

wHoOpS

[@langstonreese7077]

@@DuckGoose9254 ik its a joke!

[@ccorux4043]

can i just say, the way the tiles all connect with the black outline is just so polished

[@micahbarnts4677]

Wow. 1,551,477 messages... You totally deserve it though! No one can program better than you on Scratch!

[@theartshub1420]

Yup

[@mlastionic]

Yeah... I could never make this even if I had the patience and time. I have a lot of respect for this guy who somehow just makes masterpieces out of blocks, numbers, letters, and a community. Griffpatch himself is just 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ABM_GD]

This is one of the most awesome games on scratch. Amazing work!

[@worst_120]

yeh, because #griffpatch join 9 years ago and 1 month so he can practice, learn and cultivate.

[@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa]

Yeah this looks like smthn you'd find on steam I would NOT believe this wad made in scratch if i didn't have access to the project lol

[@worst_120]

@@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa Do you need the appel game

[@CrystalKeeper7]

Appel, it's been so long!

[@frostbite3626]

Oh look it’s crystalkeeper7

[@yoshiclapped3577]

Hi CrystalKepper7!

[@mamtanaik9809]

Hi there

[@mamtanaik9809]

@suhalo_351 hey its -lnfinityCoder- on scratch

[@sheldonsequeira]

oh crystal is here

[@octoriagaming1277]

6:46 1.5 milliom messages? Man, it must be hard to check them lol!

[@khlobbia]

thats like 1 million times my normal! yeah i definitely get 1.5 messages a day

[@yoshiclapped3577]

@@khlobbia lol

[@octoriagaming1277]

@@khlobbia LOL

[@wowyok4507]

*million*

[@fexxisabandonedaccnewonein2876]

yeah, I know!

[@Tacos18]

I'm only just seeing this a year later but I'm amazed! You've made the scratch version of Super Mario Maker all for free in a few months!

[@microcentralization2137]

Imagine how much work he put in this. ITS A MASSIVE WORK.

[@vincentjr.7858]

Wow, this is the guy who made Minecraft on Scratch, sir you made my childhood. Thank You!

[@KidsCodingPlayground]

Nice Griffpatch! Thank you for this awesome tutorial!

[@svshhsbs]

hi kids coding playground

[@KidsCodingPlayground]

@@svshhsbs 😁😅😆

[@RBXwetredsad]

Intro 0:00 Level Editor 1:56 How To Test Level 2:15 How To Test Level (Shortcut) 2:33 How To Add Parts 2:48 How To Remove Parts 2:55 How To Swap Parts 3:14 How To Add Spikes 3:43 How To Eyedrop Part 3:55 How To Add Collectables 4:31 How To Add Spawn 5:01 How To Add Checkpoint 4:36 How To Add End Flag 4:44

[@RuchitBreme]

tank you

[@giannamhyls10]

@@RuchitBreme agreed

[@idosumestufffforsubs6201]

do you know how to hide things behind foreground blocks (the ones you go behind)

[@jeffsampson5822]

I love the death animation when I was playing it! Nice music too!

[@lavanyag5939]

How does Appel break into pieces like that? I guess he used clones

[@cheerio7012]

Insane game. So much fun! I really like your stuff on scratch!

[@FlyingDino92]

I can't believe this is Scratch :o

[@svshhsbs]

Ikr

[@421Dungeon]

have you even seen the 3d games on scratch there amazing

[@kraclranch]

yeah

[@geniusapple6471]

Griffpatch you are SO underrated.

[@crackerpooppop]

He has 212086 followers on scratch, and he is the most popular user

[@jumpwithkarl]

who would dislike a tutorial video, just cause it takes long to understand does not mean you should dislike it

[@notlol1]

trolls and bots

[@Niero369]

This is so well made and I’m so excited to play all of the levels and community levels!

[@JamieG0303]

In a future games add zoom out and camera movements for cutscenes, it would be good for a dungeon crawler RPG

[@enchantedlands4046]

Griffpatch, I finally beat all the levels of Appel!

[@langstonreese7077]

this game should be on the "appel" store!

[@darshanbildikar1]

Haha!

[@playernamerr7075]

Nice Pun

[@bogdanwydrych9998]

To be honest i didn't even know that it is possible to make custom levels in scratch. You really impress me.

[@thatscertainlyinteresting]

It wasn't until griffpatch designed it :)

[@jjsanimations]

I made a level. I'll have to put it on the forum!

[@WedPainter]

Project number 60917032. Thats how long this guy took to make this game. Honestly, there wouldnt be a Scratch without this legend

[@animastickReL]

I love the game it's the best scratch game i've ever seen

[@kgratia4748]

same from me!

[@autisticChronicles360]

31:00 it would be cool if the trampoline simulated how far it would spring Appel based on the x and y values inputted. This would be useful as we wouldn't have to keep doing trail and error to get the spring distance we want. Let's say y=30 and deceleration=-2 (change y speed by -2): I made a program that would calculate the max height, and it returned a value of 240 units up (max of 3 tiles up based on your 62x62 tiles). 30+28+26+24+22+...+4+2 = 240, floor(240/62) = 3.

[@lavanyag5939]

Yeah. It takes a lot of trial and error

[@connorjacobsen5949]

Your games are next level mate!

[@DavisSavage]

I’ve been waiting for this!

[@felixthebooster2475]

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@cosmic2616]

in the next update you should add the ability to get colored tiles in the level editor!

[@lavanyag5939]

Maybe like pressing arrow keys to change the tiles' color🙂

[@shivankjha123]

The way to change the color of level is by changing the 'HUE' and 'HUE #2' variables

[@LeGnocchi]

Can you add the possibility of assigning a group to crosses so that they only block certain objects?

[@InverseOfficial]

No question the best platformer I’ve ever seen on scratch. I am wondering though how are the black outlines made so they morph to the shape of the level?

[@cst1229]

I think the outlines for each tile are separate from the tile itself and are behind the real tiles.

[@Arnikaaa]

Griffpatch uploaded a tutorial

[@Arnikaaa]

With pen

[@InverseOfficial]

@@Arnikaaa yes, I’ve seen it. I figured it was something of the likes, though looking back at this now and I am more in awe as to how much of a pain making these kinds of “grouped” objects would be.

[@juinnlungtai7061]

you really bring the game to a new level!!! Genius !!! my family is having so much fun with it!!!

[@juinnlungtai7061]

another surprise I saw in your coding is the debug module.... fantastic!!!

[@juinnlungtai7061]

in your Levels, Add blank custom block, supposed you waned to call setup width height instead of width width?

[@autisticChronicles360]

@griffpatch This is a really cool game. Just a question: how big do you think the grid layout should be maximum? (In # of tiles × # of tiles). I’m looking for a good balance in size, and this is assuming I reuse clones that are offscreen. I have several ideas for tiles myself, from the generic tiles to special tiles like Colored Portals.

[@eeeeeeeeefeeeeeeeee]

awesome!! Can't wait to head on back to scratch to speedrun again.

[@uhhemrxcc]

griffpatch, I finally finished appel level 9!

[@aadidhariwal3632]

man your the best . how much time did it took you to make this? f i start making this ,it will take me almost a 100 years

[@husarzwielki8499]

Dzięki za ten filmik! Dzięki niemu nauczyłem się tworzyć fajne poziomy w applu!

[@strangecorgi2903]

This is super cool! I hope one day you make a game like Castlevania!

[@therayvenn3482]

When the player dies, you should play the sound of a bite being take out of an apple!

[@levlev4048]

woooooooooooooooooow it looks soo clean, the paralax scrolling enemeys the apples and check points, your the best man.

[@DaNoob1485]

Awesome!. I will play this later and make a level! :D

[@saheraftab2404]

I love your paper Minecraft griffpath

[@trombone28]

woah. amazing! this is honestly a beautiful game!

[@Speed-TV]

What does the boss do?

[@kaiyofox]

Ive been wanting for this, I recreated it to. :D

[@user-uk9pi3zc5k]

thank you very much grifflatch for your help!!!!!!

[@jeffalonet]

appel is really fun

[@Rory432]

If u saw the comment on your game from rnrhps2 that was me GREEEEEEAAAAAAAAATTTTT Game

[@RaNdOm3.1415]

I’m impressed how he made a level designer

[@alveybunch]

I love your new game Appel

[@maelstudi0]

This is insane ! I’m trying it out !

[@artaishahrami727]

I love appel it's so fun

[@remyapraveen18]

I love the way u made Minecraft in scratch

[@remyapraveen18]

LOVE IT!!!!

[@Masquerola]

oh wow it's Griffpatch!

[@TheBrainyCatClub]

Hi griffpatch, i like coding, And i want to be a JavaScript coder when i grow up.

[@eclipse1353]

so... turns out there are 2 major skips on lvl 1 (the one at the end is real hard). first, a cycle skip by dying at checkpoint 2, going through the spikes, jumping into the gap between the last few spikes and jumping again as soon as possible (dunno if it saves time), second one is at the 3rd cp, it works by going on the top platforms and performing a frame perfect full coyote jump over the spikes on the higher platform (really difficult but big time save) or you just jump off the enemy instead of skip 2... but if there were no enemies then you´d have to do that for wr

[@-ABIC-]

ah yes... i feel a new mario maker right there :')

[@jeffsampson5822]

I was wondering though, how did you get the scrolling respawn?

[@GDPlainA]

Geometry Dash wants to: Know your location Jokes aside, this is absolutely epic

[@helloyoutubers4184]

Greeaaat this is sooo good helped me lots

[@warrenblackjaguer7368]

Griff patch I am using some of your project codes to make Crazy Cat Brothers The Quest on scratch.

[@mitnerd2000]

Amazing platformer and coding techniques! I'm learning a lot about inner workings of scratch from you! You probably won't read this because there are so many comments but hopefully you or someone that knows scratch really well can help answer. I assume these are best practices learned from programming over the years. Why do you use 0.03 seconds in the wait command instead of other values? Also in the Player sprite's position now block, you used the "and" operator with a blank with key space pressed. I can't tell if it's a bug or special programming technique. Will watch the videos all again to see if I pick up additional nugget of wisdom.

[@Arnikaaa]

I don’t know for the and

[@varganyamuvek]

I think he uses 0.03 secs of delay, because Scratch runs on 30 F/sec (frames per second) and 0.03 sec is 1 frame

[@vickypatle7654]

Griffpatch! The best coder on scratch! Pls i need your help

[@autisticChronicles360]

Hey, griffpatch. Ever made a platformer where tiles are only solid while in range? I did just that in a different coding software. Worked surprisingly well. Different collision code, tho..

[@captain.s1918]

This is underrated.

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

Do you just re-draw the non-moving tiles every frame the player moves/shake effect or are they entity sprites/clones

[@christianlimauro]

I need to make a summoning salt type video when people start going for records

[@uniqugameseedits]

this is gonna be awesome !!!!

[@creeperninja6553]

I have a question is there any way to get the spiky moving platform? i saw that in one of the levels but not in the editor.

[@Jun-kl5jx]

An amazing video Griffpatch! But would you mind if you can also explain your raytracer a little bit more since I find it very interesting, and how you managed to make a 2d coding platform have a 3d-like raytracer? Thanks!

[@m_ahmad2k6]

What a big comment! And i like griffpatch i wish he was my brother!

[@m_ahmad2k6]

😀I like you griffpatch andi am your biggest fan!

[@levlev4048]

don't forget to make back ups, besauce you can accedently mess somthing up

[@TheRealMangoDev]

i think it would be pretty cool if you added an o for "opacity" in block data with the max value of 100 (not transparent AT ALL)

[@TheresaRamirez-uw2ie]

Im rectreating appel as "Appel v1.4.1" BTW what font do you use?

[@BlipoHippo]

i decided to change some letters and numbers in the level codes and got some cool-ish levels

[@shreytiwari2982]

From where do you get ideas for Scratch project?

[@resound3891]

Hi, I have bad news for you... in your video game "Word Processor v3.6.1", there is a bug: the backspace doesn't work... not even Shift and many other buttons. It is Scratch 3 that caused this big bug.

[@QuantumScratcher]

You'll need to use ◀ as backspace.

[@cristianospohr69]

@@QuantumScratcher lel

[@eduardorz45]

I am your favorite fan

[@catalystrobotics]

Hey girffpatch, I have a question. Is there a way to set scratch variables with JS?

[@GHOST-dg5tk]

you should add a community levels list, where people can upload their own levels and publish it for everyone else to see (with cloud variables)

[@siede7749]

griffpatch the legend

[@m_ahmad2k6]

I like this game i will play thanks griffpatch

[@Achooo939]

Griffpatch this is awesome!

[@frankydog5973]

This is so cool! Also, are you gonna continue your online tutorials?

[@Ben_Viola14]

I wanna b like u wen i grow up griffpatch!!!❤️❤️

[@zzo09]

Yay! Appel is finnaly here

[@LeGnocchi]

Why we can't change the color of the blocks in creative mode ?

[@resound3891]

This game are incredible!

[@resound3891]

@pushpraj nigwal what?

[@jeditz8]

u can also pick in like which level should it be like should it replace the current level _ or somethin?

[@varganyamuvek]

I have an idea. The keys that are assigned to an identificator of X, they should only open doors, that elare also assigned to identificator X. For example, a key is assigned to 19, and it can open a door that is also assigned 19, nothing else

[@dim6411]

If you don't mind me asking, where did you get the music for the game? I quite like it! Did you make it yourself, or just grabbed something that fit the game from another project or site?

[@varganyamuvek]

He gave credits in the game's credit section

[@04tmoodyscratch24]

Can't wait to get into it and make some stuff!

[@Mikalinium]

One day, I will make games like him

[@varganyamuvek]

You can do it :-D

[@user-gl8ct9zr3v]

YAY!! new vid love you griff