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Learning Stencyl 3.x Game Development: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Learning Stencyl 3.x Game Development: Beginner's Guide You don't need to know anything about game development or computer programming when you use the Stencyl toolkit. This book guides you through the whole process of creating a game, publishing and profiting from it.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849695961
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Learning Stencyl 3.x Game Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Let's Make a Game! 3. Detecting Collisions 4. Creating Behaviors 5. Animation in Stencyl 6. Managing and Displaying Information 7. Polishing the Game 8. Implementing Sounds 9. Publishing and Making Money from Your Games 10. Targeting Mobile Platforms Planning, Resources, and Legal Issues Index

Time for action – configuring the behavior


The game file to import and load for this session is 5961_02_07.stencyl.

Ensure that we can see the attributes for the Run and Jump Movement behavior by opening the monkey actor and clicking on the Behaviors button at the upper-center of the screen.

Let's get the keyboard and animation information into the behavior:

  1. Click on the drop-down arrow next to the heading Left Control and select the item labeled left.

  2. Click on the drop-down arrow next to the heading Right Control and select the item labeled right.

  3. Click on the drop-down arrow next to the heading Jump Control and select the item labeled up.

  4. Scroll down the configuration screen so that the section with the red warning triangle icons can be seen.

  5. Click on the Choose Animation… button next to the first icon, which is labeled Idle Left Animation.

  6. In the Choose Animation dialog box that appears, click on the thumbnail for the monkey's Idle Left animation.

  7. Click on OK to confirm your choice.

  8. Click on the...

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