Adding enemies and collectibles

Now that we have refined the collision detection for the monkey and the tiles, it's time to add some enemies for our monkey to avoid, and we also need to find some interesting items for the monkey to collect. Adding these objects into our game will introduce the first level of challenge for our players.

We've already learned how to import actors from StencylForge, and that's where we'll find the new actors we're going to place into the jungle scene.

Downloading the enemies and collectibles

The game file to import and load for this session is 5961_03_05.stencyl.

We already know how to search for and download actors from StencylForge, so let's download the actors with the following names:

• Stencyl Book Croc

• Stencyl Book Snake

• Stencyl Book Melon

• Stencyl Book Bananas

• Stencyl Book Pineapple

• Stencyl Book Grapes

If we now go to the Dashboard tab and click on Actor Types, we should see the following display in the main panel:

Now that we have added all the actors, we need to save...