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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 our first actor

Let's begin by adding the avatar, which will symbolize the player in the game, in game development parlance. The actor that represents the player in-game is generally referred to by the acronym PC (Player Character). Having established this, we will use this abbreviation from time to time henceforth. Perform the following steps for adding our first actor:

Go to the Dashboard, and take a look at the now familiar RESOURCES pane on the left-hand side of the screen. Select Actor Types, which just so happens to be at the top of the list, as shown in the following screenshot:
You can see that there is a cut-out styled button in the main view that contains the text This game contains no Actor Types. Click here to create one. Do as it says, and the Create New… window will pop up, as shown in the following screenshot. We are not complete strangers to this window, as it is the same window we used to create our Backgrounds, foreground, and Tilesets in Chapter 3, Backgrounds...

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