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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 – responding to the player's selection


The game file to import and load for this session is 5961_07_12.stencyl.

  1. Create a new scene called Main Menu, with a background of blue; any blue will do as we'll be changing it later!

  2. Close the new scene.

  3. In the Dashboard tab, under Actor Types, double-click on the Stencyl Book Menu Button thumbnail to display the Animation Editor, then click on the Events button in the row of gray buttons at the upper-center of the screen.

  4. Click on + Add Event | Input | On Actor.

  5. Change the event name to Clicked.

  6. Modify the when the mouse enters Self block to when the mouse is released on Self.

  7. Add the instruction blocks to resume the game and switch to the Main Menu scene as shown in the following screenshot:

  8. Repeat steps 3 through 6 for Stencyl Book Next Button; remember to stop after completing step 6, and then continue with the following steps.

  9. Double-check to ensure that the Clicked events in both the Stencyl Book Menu Button and Stencyl Book Next Button...