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Stencyl Essentials

You're reading from   Stencyl Essentials Build beautiful, unique, cross-platform games rapidly with the free Stencyl 2D game engine and toolset

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399450
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Downloading and installing Stencyl

Stencyl can very easily be downloaded free of charge from the official Stencyl website, www.stencyl.com. When you visit the landing page, you will see something that resembles the following screenshot:

Downloading and installing Stencyl

Click on the Download button, which is prominently displayed on the landing page. You will then be given the option to download either a Windows, Mac, or Linux build:

Downloading and installing Stencyl

Simply select the appropriate build for your operating system, and click on Download. This could take anywhere from 20 seconds to 20 minutes depending on the speed of your Internet connection and the size of the particular Stencyl build you are downloading. Once the file is downloaded, launch the installer (if you are installing for Windows), follow all of the prompts, and when the installation is completed, you will have the option to launch Stencyl. If you have downloaded the Mac version, you will have to extract the stencyl-full folder from the downloaded ZIP file, then put it in the Applications directory for it to become useable. Once you have completed the appropriate steps, launch Stencyl.

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For Linux users, the installation process may be a little more complicated. It is beyond the scope of this book to delve into such particulars. However, there is an excellent guide to the Ubuntu installation on the Stencyl website itself, which is available at http://www.stencyl.com/help/view/install-stencyl-linux.

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