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With Citadel, get ready to embark on an epic journey filled with thrill and excitement. Explore vast landscapes, meet intriguing characters, and solve mind-boggling puzzles as you navigate through enchanting realms. So, pack your bags, sharpen your swords, and let's create unforgettable memories together in a world where every corner holds a new surprise. Get ready to conquer the castle and become the hero you were meant to be!

Getting started with Castle

Making your first Castle deck is easy! To make a new deck, navigate to the “Create” tab of the Castle app. Once you’re signed in, just tap “✧ New Deck” on the top right corner.

Let’s select the “Meadowland” kit from the kits menu.

Your first Castle actors

Actors are objects which can be used to do many things, from displaying graphics, moving, acting under the forces of gravity and other physics, or even communicating with one another. You can see a bunch of actors on your device’s screen right now!

Try tapping on some actors in the scene and dragging them to a new place on the screen. Once you’ve done that, you can press the play button (▶) on the top of the screen to try out your new layout.

🧪 You can play your Castle creations at any time, so just experiment with things!

Artwork

Now that you know how to move actors around, let’s change what some of them look like!

Press on the white “Character” actor and then tap “Edit”.

Can’t find the “Character” actor? Try pressing play and then dragging on the card. The character actor is the one that moves when you use the joystick!

Now that you’ve tapped “Edit Blueprint”, you should be able to see inside the “Character” blueprint. There’s a lot to take in here, but all that matters right now is the “Artwork” section. Tap on the character’s artwork to go into the art tool.

In the art tool you can press and drag anywhere to draw a line! It’s a yellow line, specifically. If you’d like to change the color, you can press the palette button on the top right corner:

There are lots of tools at your disposal to help you make artwork. The pencil, fill, move, and shapes tools are just a few. Try redrawing the Character artwork to look like a person or monster that you can imagine! 🦸

Here’s ours:

Now you can go back to the scene and press play to move around as your new character!

Blueprints

Now that you’ve edited an actor’s blueprint for your first time, we can dive a little deeper into just what blueprints are: Blueprints are recipes for creating new actors, which you can place new actors into the scene from.

Any time you want to create a new type of actor for your deck, you can add a new blueprint with the ⊕ button.

Let's try adding a new blueprint called “Growth Potion”. ( Pictured )

Notice that although we’ve made our new potion actor, bumping into our potion as the Character does nothing— we just phase through it. We can make it do something with Rules, which we’ll cover after Movement.

Movement

The movement tab allows you to enable and tweak different special behaviors for your actor. Take a look in our “Character” actor:

Press “Add physics or controls” to add a new behaviour to the actor.

Now you can see “Slingshot” at the bottom of the Add a Behaviour menu. Let’s add Slingshot into our character’s list of behaviors. After adding it, when we scroll down to the bottom of the list we can see that Slingshot is there:

Try playing your deck again!

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