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Stencyl Essentials

Stencyl Essentials

By : Sneyd
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Stencyl Essentials

Stencyl Essentials

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By: Sneyd
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Overview of this book

If you are a computer game enthusiast who has always wanted to know what it takes to build a playable game, or maybe you would like to expand your programming knowledge so that you can develop great computer games using a solid game engine and toolkit, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Exploring the Stencyl Toolset and Game Engine
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1. Exploring the Stencyl Toolset and Game Engine
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Downloading and installing Stencyl
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Creating an account and signing in
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Exploring Stencyl – screens and windows
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Summary
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2. Starting the Game Project
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2. Starting the Game Project
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Mudslide Cowboy
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The project files
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Creating the game project
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3. Backgrounds and Tilesets
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3. Backgrounds and Tilesets
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Backgrounds and foregrounds
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Our first tileset
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4. Building Levels Using Scenes
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4. Building Levels Using Scenes
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Creating our first level
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Adding tiles to our level
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5. Actor Types and Instances
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5. Actor Types and Instances
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What are actors?
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Adding our first actor
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6. Writing Simple Behaviors
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6. Writing Simple Behaviors
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The player handler
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7. Complex Behaviors and Code
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7. Complex Behaviors and Code
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Adding player interaction
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8. Adding Sound FX and Music
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8. Adding Sound FX and Music
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Supporting both MP3 and OGG formats
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Importing audio files into Stencyl
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Sound file designation in Stencyl
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Playing sound FX and music in Stencyl
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9. Adding HUD Elements
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9. Adding HUD Elements
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The dynamic cursor
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10. Adding Menus and Buttons
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10. Adding Menus and Buttons
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Adding the scene and background
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Adding the buttons
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Programming the button
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11. Scoring and Game Rules
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11. Scoring and Game Rules
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Collecting coins
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Coin collisions and physics settings
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Importing the font
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Coin collection
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Rendering text to the screen
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Multiple tile layers
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12. Publishing and Monetization
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12. Publishing and Monetization
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Mobile publishing and monetization
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Index
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Index

Adding our first actor

Let's begin by adding the avatar, which will symbolize the player in the game, in game development parlance. The actor that represents the player in-game is generally referred to by the acronym PC (Player Character). Having established this, we will use this abbreviation from time to time henceforth. Perform the following steps for adding our first actor:

  1. Go to the Dashboard, and take a look at the now familiar RESOURCES pane on the left-hand side of the screen. Select Actor Types, which just so happens to be at the top of the list, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Adding our first actor
  2. You can see that there is a cut-out styled button in the main view that contains the text This game contains no Actor Types. Click here to create one. Do as it says, and the Create New… window will pop up, as shown in the following screenshot. We are not complete strangers to this window, as it is the same window we used to create our Backgrounds, foreground, and Tilesets in Chapter 3, Backgrounds...
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