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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 – using the grow instruction block


The game file to import and load for this session is 5961_05_07.stencyl.

  1. Ensure that the Manage Player Collisions behavior is displaying the Collides with Collectibles event; click on the Dashboard tab, select Actor Behaviors, and double-click on the Manage Player Collisions icon in the main panel.

  2. Holding the Shift key on the keyboard, drag the fade out of group over 0.25 sec using None block and drop it onto the icon of the trashcan at the upper-right of the center panel. Only the blue block should move during this process. If the other blocks are dragged with the blue block, place the blocks into their original position, release the Shift key, and try again!

  3. In the Actor | Tweening category of the instruction-block palette, locate the grow self to (w: 0%, h: 0% ) over 0 sec using None block and drag it, so that it snaps into place above the orange do after 0.25 seconds block.

  4. Drag the blue … of group block from the when Self hits a … of Collectibles...