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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

Publishing to the Stencyl Arcade


The Stencyl Arcade is an ideal place to publish our first game and, as we might guess from its title, the Stencyl Arcade is part of the stencyl.com website! It has been created for users of Stencyl to upload their creations and can be found at www.stencyl.com/game.

In the following screenshot we can see that the Stencyl Arcade is a curated environment with the most interesting games being marked as Staff Picks:

It's certainly worth taking the time to examine some of the games in the Stencyl Arcade, if only to see the high quality of the productions that can be created with Stencyl. However, don't allow the high standard of many of the games to discourage you—we all have to start somewhere!

While we're looking at these games, it should also be noted that popular and successful games do not necessarily need to have amazing graphics. For example, we can see in the previous screenshot that the excellent game Hex Rotate (created by Robert Alverez) is a puzzle game...