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Learning Stencyl 3.x Game Development: Beginner's Guide

By : INNES BORKWOOD
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Learning Stencyl 3.x Game Development: Beginner's Guide

By: INNES BORKWOOD

Overview of this book

Creating video games has traditionally been a long and complicated process, requiring years of experience and a vast array of skills. However, with the introduction of comprehensive game-development toolkits such as Stencyl, the fun has returned to the art of game-creation ‚Äì anyone who has the desire to create their own video game can now do so with almost any desktop computer and a free software download from the Internet!Learning Stencyl 3.x Game Development: Beginner's Guide will put you on the fast-track to learning the essentials of the powerful Stencyl game-development toolkit. You will develop a complete, ready-to-publish video game including in-game advertising, by following the clear, step-by-step tutorials, supported by numerous screenshots and practical examples.This book will guide you through all the important steps required to develop and publish your video game. Starting with the installation and testing of the Stencyl toolkit, you will very quickly advance to the fun and exciting process of creating a playable game. The step-by-step tutorials will guide you from a blank screen, right through to giving your game that final polish and sharing it with the rest of the world. Whilst developing your feature-complete video game, you will learn how to easily detect collisions in your game using Stencyl's built-in physics engine. You'll discover how to use the powerful animation tools included in Stencyl's toolkit, and you'll find out how to make your game shine with sounds and visual special effects. You will also discover how Stencyl makes it easy to utilize the touch-screen and accelerometer features of smartphones and tablet computers. You will learn all the essential skills required to develop a video game from scratch ‚Äì right through to publishing a game on the Internet and testing games  on the most popular mobile devices.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning Stencyl 3.x Game Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – attaching the Camera Follow behavior


The game file to import and load for this session is 5961_02_11.stencyl.

  1. Go to the Dashboard tab and click on the Actor Types heading.

  2. Double click on the Stencyl Book Monkey.

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

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

  5. In the Choose a Behavior dialog box, click on the Game option in the left-hand side panel, under the heading FROM YOUR LIBRARY.

  6. Locate the Camera Follow behavior and double-click on it.

  7. Do not change the scroll speed attribute in the behavior configuration screen!

  8. Test the game and try to make the monkey run off the right edge of the screen—run around and see how far the monkey can go!

What just happened?

Attaching the Camera Follow behavior to an actor forces the scene to scroll whenever the actor tries to pass the center of the current screen view. Once our actor reaches either the leftmost or rightmost edge...