Stencyl Essentials

Richard Sneyd

• Editorial: Packt Publishing
• Año: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784399450
• Categoría: Informatik
• Categoría: Programmierung von Spielen

Stencyl Essentials

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Table of Contents

Stencyl Essentials

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Exploring the Stencyl Toolset and Game Engine

Downloading and installing Stencyl

Creating an account and signing in

Exploring Stencyl – screens and windows

The Welcome Center

Drop-down menus

The toolbar

The Welcome Center tab

The Dashboard

Scene Designer

The Palette

The Log Viewer

Summary

2. Starting the Game Project

Mudslide Cowboy

The fictional element

The game rules

Target platforms

The control system

Adaptive cursor

The project files

Creating the game project

Summary

3. Backgrounds and Tilesets

Backgrounds and foregrounds

Adding our first background

Three more backgrounds

Our first tileset

Summary

4. Building Levels Using Scenes

Creating our first level

Implementing foregrounds and backgrounds

Adding tiles to our level

Exercise

Summary

5. Actor Types and Instances

What are actors?

Adding our first actor

Importing our first animation

Collision shapes

Importing the rock Actor Type

Summary

6. Writing Simple Behaviors

The player handler

Creating a new actor behavior

Creating attributes

Custom events

Testing and debugging

Adding the balloon

Configuring prefab behaviors

Modifying prefab behaviors

Testing the changes

Summary

7. Complex Behaviors and Code

Adding player interaction

Initializing the variables

Handling player clicks

Our first custom block

Handling directional clicks

The when mouse is released event

Switching animations

Summary

8. Adding Sound FX and Music

Supporting both MP3 and OGG formats

Importing audio files into Stencyl

Sound file designation in Stencyl

Playing sound FX and music in Stencyl

Summary

9. Adding HUD Elements

The dynamic cursor

Summary

10. Adding Menus and Buttons

Adding the scene and background

Adding the buttons

Programming the button

Summary

11. Scoring and Game Rules

Collecting coins

Coin collisions and physics settings

Importing the font

Coin collection

Rendering text to the screen

Multiple tile layers

Summary

12. Publishing and Monetization

Mobile publishing and monetization

Monetization with ads

Ad extensions

Store certificates

Summary

Index

Stencyl Essentials

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First published: April 2015

Production reference: 1230415

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Credits

Author

Richard Sneyd

Reviewers

Dan Bendell

Innes Borkwood

Jean-Marc "jihem" QUÉRÉ

Commissioning Editor

Kunal Parikh

Acquisition Editor

Richard Brookes-Bland

Content Development Editor

Ajinkya Paranj...