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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.

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849695961

Length 336 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Stencyl

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

INNES BORKWOOD

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

A game file is not required for this session. We're going to create a blank game for our initial mobile tests.

Attach your iOS device to your Mac using the supplied USB cable.
Open Stencyl and create a new game called Mobile Testing iOS.
Create a new scene called Test Scene, and set the Background color to Light Turquoise.
In the main Stencyl toolbar, select iOS Device in the target device drop-down list next to the Test Game button, as shown in the following screenshot:
Ensure that Stencyl's Log Viewer window is open: View | Log Viewer in the main Stencyl menu.
Click on Test Game to start the compilation process.
The compilation process can take several minutes, depending on the speed of the development computer. Be patient!
When the compilation process has completed, Stencyl will display a Sending to Device… message, and shortly after this, the game (a blank, blue screen) will appear on the iOS device!