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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 – attaching another behavior to the actor


The game file to import and load for this session is 5961_02_09.stencyl.

We can easily prevent actors from leaving a scene by attaching another behavior, so our next task is to do just that!

  1. Ensure that the Stencyl Book Monkey tab is active.

  2. If the Stencyl Book Monkey tab isn't currently open, go to the Dashboard, click on Actor Types under the RESOURCES heading, and double-click on the thumbnail image for the monkey.

  3. Click on the Behaviors button at the upper-center of the screen.

  4. Click on the + Add Behavior button at the very lower-left corner of the screen.

  5. In the left-hand side panel of the Choose a Behavior dialog box, click on the Motion option that appears under the FROM YOUR LIBRARY heading.

  6. Find the Cannot Exit Scene behavior in the main panel, and double-click it. Be careful not to select the similarly named Cannot Exit Screen behavior—it doesn't do exactly what we need!

  7. Read the information on the behavior screen that is now being...

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