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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

Chapter 2. Let's Make a Game!

In Chapter 1, Introduction, I promised that we'd have the basics of a working game in place by the end of this chapter, and I plan to keep my promise!

Throughout this book, we are going to create a platform game, based in the jungle, in which the player will control a cheeky monkey that will have the ability to run and jump around the scene. As our monkey character runs, the screen will scroll horizontally to display more of the jungle and, along the way, there will be various obstacles, some items to collect, and some enemies to avoid.

Although some of the preceding features will be added to our game later in the development process, when we have learned more features of Stencyl, in this chapter, we will put in place many of the basic mechanics of the game.

The skills we will be learning in this chapter are:

  • Creating a new game

  • Creating a blank scene

  • Downloading resources from StencylForge

  • Understanding the Stencyl Dashboard

  • Adding an actor into a scene

  • Downloading...

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