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Stencyl Essentials

By : Sneyd

4.4 (5)

Stencyl Essentials

4.4 (5)

By: Sneyd

Overview of this book

If you are a computer game enthusiast who has always wanted to know what it takes to build a playable game, or maybe you would like to expand your programming knowledge so that you can develop great computer games using a solid game engine and toolkit, then this book is for you.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Exploring the Stencyl Toolset and Game Engine

1. Exploring the Stencyl Toolset and Game Engine

Downloading and installing Stencyl

Creating an account and signing in

Exploring Stencyl – screens and windows

Summary

2. Starting the Game Project

2. Starting the Game Project

Mudslide Cowboy

The project files

Creating the game project

Summary

3. Backgrounds and Tilesets

3. Backgrounds and Tilesets

Backgrounds and foregrounds

Our first tileset

Summary

4. Building Levels Using Scenes

4. Building Levels Using Scenes

Creating our first level

Adding tiles to our level

Summary

5. Actor Types and Instances

5. Actor Types and Instances

What are actors?

Adding our first actor

Summary

6. Writing Simple Behaviors

6. Writing Simple Behaviors

The player handler

Summary

7. Complex Behaviors and Code

7. Complex Behaviors and Code

Adding player interaction

Summary

8. Adding Sound FX and Music

8. Adding Sound FX and Music

Supporting both MP3 and OGG formats

Importing audio files into Stencyl

Sound file designation in Stencyl

Playing sound FX and music in Stencyl

Summary

9. Adding HUD Elements

9. Adding HUD Elements

The dynamic cursor

Summary

10. Adding Menus and Buttons

10. Adding Menus and Buttons

Adding the scene and background

Adding the buttons

Programming the button

Summary

11. Scoring and Game Rules

11. Scoring and Game Rules

Collecting coins

Coin collisions and physics settings

Importing the font

Coin collection

Rendering text to the screen

Multiple tile layers

Summary

12. Publishing and Monetization

12. Publishing and Monetization

Mobile publishing and monetization

Summary

Index

Index

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Adding tiles to our level

Let's take a look at the Palette option on the right-hand side of the screen, and you will see that the tiles that we imported in Chapter 3, Backgrounds and Tilesets, are now available for use within the scene, as shown in the following screenshot:

Adding tiles to our level

Notice that the top-left tile is highlighted with a yellow border. This indicates that it is the currently selected tile. You can create larger, rectangular selections of tiles by performing the following steps:

Click on the top-left tile.
Drag it to the bottom-right tile of your choice.
Release the left mouse button.

Make the following selection of tiles, as shown in the following screenshot:

Adding tiles to our level

Select Layer 0, which is a tiles layer (tiles cannot be added to the background layers), and with these tiles selected, move the mouse over to the top-left corner of the scene, and then click once to place them in the top-left corner, as shown in the following screenshot:

Adding tiles to our level

Congratulations! You've just placed the first few tiles...

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