- Learning Stencyl 3.x Game Development Beginner's Guide
- Table of Contents
- Learning Stencyl 3.x Game Development Beginner's Guide
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Acknowledgement
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- How Stencyl works
- How we'll learn to use Stencyl
- Why Stencyl is a great development tool
- Platforms that Stencyl runs on
- What makes Stencyl different
- Successful games created with Stencyl
- Installing Stencyl and testing the setup
- Time for action – downloading and installing Stencyl on Windows
- Time for action – downloading and installing Stencyl for Mac OS X
- Time for action – downloading and installing Stencyl for Linux
- Time for action – creating an account and signing in
- Time For action – testing Stencyl
- Summary
- 2. Let's Make a Game!
- Using the downloaded game files
- Creating a new game
- Time for action – creating a new game
- Creating a blank scene
- Time for action – creating a blank scene
- Downloading resources from StencylForge
- Time for action – downloading an actor
- Understanding the Stencyl Dashboard
- Adding an actor into a scene
- Time for action – adding an actor to the jungle scene
- Testing the game
- Time for action – testing the game
- Downloading and using tiles for scenery
- Time for action – downloading tiles from StencylForge
- Time for action – adding tiles into the scene
- Reviewing our progress
- Using behaviors to interact with our game
- Time for action – attaching a behavior to an actor
- Time for action – configuring the behavior
- Testing the game
- Time for action – testing the game to find a problem!
- Improving the scene mechanics
- Time for action – adding gravity to the Jungle scene
- Time for action – attaching another behavior to the actor
- Time for action – increasing the width of the scene
- Making the screen scroll
- Time for action – attaching the Camera Follow behavior
- Summary
- 3. Detecting Collisions
- Working with collision detection in Stencyl
- Time for action – enabling the Debug Drawing feature
- Modifying an actor's collision shapes
- Time for Action – modifying the monkey's collision shapes
- Time for action – adding more collision shapes to the monkey
- Configuring collision shapes for tiles
- Time for action – modifying the collision bounds of a tile
- Adding enemies and collectibles
- Working with collision groups
- Time for action – examining the collision group settings
- Time for action – examining the Players and Actors groups
- Time for action – creating a collision group for enemy actors
- Using collision sensors
- Time for action – configuring the fruit as a sensor
- Implementing terrain collision shapes
- Time for action – adding a terrain collision area to the scene
- Summary
- 4. Creating Behaviors
- Creating custom behaviors
- Time for action – creating a behavior
- Time for action – adding an action and attaching to it an actor
- Time for action – adding an event and renaming the behavior
- Creating a timed event
- Time for action – creating a behavior to drop the statues
- Examining screen size and scene size
- Time for action – adjusting the drop-location of the statue
- Time for action – making the behavior more flexible
- Introducing randomness into our game
- Time for action – introducing randomness to our behavior
- Time for action – making the statues disappear after a delay
- Implementing our first special effect
- Time for action – making the statues disappear after a delay
- Understanding active actors
- Time for action – stopping the statues from becoming inactive
- Creating a countdown timer
- Time for action – creating a countdown timer
- Implementing decision making into our game
- Time for action – listening for the countdown to reach zero
- Repositioning an actor during gameplay
- Time for action – creating an event to relocate the monkey
- Triggering custom events in our behaviors
- Time for action – triggering a custom event
- Summary
- 5. Animation in Stencyl
- Creating an actor using an imported image file
- Time for action – importing an image into the Animation Editor
- Understanding Stencyl's animation terminology
- Importing a ready-made sprite sheet
- Time for action – importing a sprite sheet
- Fine-tuning an animation's frame durations
- Time for action – modifying an animation's frame durations
- Editing animation frames
- Time for action – editing an existing frame with Pencyl
- Time for action – changing the default graphics editor
- Using instruction blocks to control animations
- Time for action – switching animations with instruction blocks
- Implementing tweening with instruction blocks
- Time for action – using the grow instruction block
- Summary
- 6. Managing and Displaying Information
- A review of our progress
- Planning ahead – what else does our game need?
- Displaying a countdown timer on the screen
- Time for action – displaying the countdown timer on the screen
- Configuring fonts
- Time for action – specifying a font for use in our game
- Creating a game attribute to count lives
- Time for action – creating a Lives game attribute
- Time for action – decrementing the number of lives
- Time for action – detecting when Lives reaches zero
- Using graphics to display information
- Time for action – displaying a timer bar
- Counting collected actors
- Time for action – counting the fruit
- Time for action – detecting when all fruits have been collected
- Keeping track of the levels
- Time for action – adding a game attribute to record the level
- Summary
- 7. Polishing the Game
- Adding a background and foreground
- Time for action – adding a background to the Jungle scene
- Creating a visual special effect
- Time for action – making the ground shake
- Creating additional levels
- Time for action – renaming, duplicating, and modifying a level
- Time for action – implementing level progression
- Adding a pause feature
- Time for action – creating the pause framework
- Time for action – implementing the main pause routine
- Implementing a level progression routine
- Time for action – displaying the message and buttons
- Time for action – responding to the player's selection
- Creating a game over message
- Time for action – modifying the existing banner event
- Time for action – displaying the game over banner
- Creating a Main Menu scene
- Time for action – displaying the introduction scene
- Finalizing the game-completed scene
- Time for action – implementing the game-completed scene
- Summary
- 8. Implementing Sounds
- Adding a jumping sound effect
- Time for action – implementing a jumping sound effect
- Examining the play sound instruction blocks
- Organizing sounds in the game
- Adding a pickup sound effect
- Time for action – implementing a pickup sound effect
- Adding a soundtrack
- Time for action – adding a soundtrack
- Understanding sound types in Stencyl
- Importing sounds into Stencyl
- Time for action – importing a sound effect
- Summary
- 9. Publishing and Making Money from Your Games
- 10. Targeting Mobile Platforms
- Understanding testing versus publishing
- Considering certification requirements
- Examining platform differences
- Testing on a mobile device
- Time for action – testing on an Android device
- Time for action – testing on an iOS device
- Utilizing the accelerometer
- Time for action – experimenting with the accelerometer
- Time for action – creating an accelerometer-controlled game
- Implementing touchscreen controls
- Time for action – implementing touchscreen controls
- Exploring additional mobile device features
- Summary
- A. Planning, Resources, and Legal Issues
- Index
We've already made a lot of progress and have discovered many of Stencyl's game-design features, so let's review what we have achieved so far—we have:
- Created a blank game
- Created a game scene
- Downloaded an actor from StencylForge
- Added an actor to a scene
- Downloaded a tileset from StencylForge
- Added tiles to a scene
- Modified the layout of tiles within a scene
We now have a basic scene layout for our game, but there is currently a vital element of the game that we still need to add.
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