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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 – editing an existing frame with Pencyl


The game file to import and load for this session is 5961_05_05.stencyl.

Note that, when using the Pencyl graphics editor, hovering the mouse cursor over any of the tools in the toolbar will display a tooltip detailing the name of the tool.

  1. Display the Stencyl Book Snake actor in the Animation Editor; the snake actor has only one animation, with a single frame.

  2. In the main panel, in the Frames section, the first and only frame for the snake actor should be highlighted with an orange border; if it is not, click on frame 0 to select it.

  3. Locate the Edit Frame (External) button at the bottom of the main panel and click on it. Be sure not to click on the Edit Frame button; that's the option for changing frame durations!

  4. In a few moments, the Pencyl image editor will be displayed on the screen with the snake actor in the editing window.

  5. Click on Zoom Tool, represented by a magnifying-glass icon, in the toolbar at the left edge of the screen.

  6. With...

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