Learning Stencyl 3.x Game Development Beginner's Guide

封面

版权信息

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

How Stencyl works

How we'll learn to use Stencyl

Why Stencyl is a great development tool

Platforms that Stencyl runs on

What makes Stencyl different

Successful games created with Stencyl

Installing Stencyl and testing the setup

Time for action – downloading and installing Stencyl on Windows

Time for action – downloading and installing Stencyl for Mac OS X

Time for action – downloading and installing Stencyl for Linux

Time for action – creating an account and signing in

Time For action – testing Stencyl

Summary

Chapter 2. Let's Make a Game!

Using the downloaded game files

Creating a new game

Time for action – creating a new game

Creating a blank scene

Time for action – creating a blank scene

Downloading resources from StencylForge

Time for action – downloading an actor

Understanding the Stencyl Dashboard

Adding an actor into a scene

Time for action – adding an actor to the jungle scene

Testing the game

Time for action – testing the game

Downloading and using tiles for scenery

Time for action – downloading tiles from StencylForge

Time for action – adding tiles into the scene

Reviewing our progress

Using behaviors to interact with our game

Time for action – attaching a behavior to an actor

Time for action – configuring the behavior

Testing the game

Time for action – testing the game to find a problem!

Improving the scene mechanics

Time for action – adding gravity to the Jungle scene

Time for action – attaching another behavior to the actor

Time for action – increasing the width of the scene

Making the screen scroll

Time for action – attaching the Camera Follow behavior

Summary

Chapter 3. Detecting Collisions

Working with collision detection in Stencyl

Time for action – enabling the Debug Drawing feature

Modifying an actor's collision shapes

Time for Action – modifying the monkey's collision shapes

Time for action – adding more collision shapes to the monkey

Configuring collision shapes for tiles

Time for action – modifying the collision bounds of a tile

Adding enemies and collectibles

Working with collision groups

Time for action – examining the collision group settings

Time for action – examining the Players and Actors groups

Time for action – creating a collision group for enemy actors

Using collision sensors

Time for action – configuring the fruit as a sensor

Implementing terrain collision shapes

Time for action – adding a terrain collision area to the scene

Summary

Chapter 4. Creating Behaviors

Creating custom behaviors

Time for action – creating a behavior

Time for action – adding an action and attaching to it an actor

Time for action – adding an event and renaming the behavior

Creating a timed event

Time for action – creating a behavior to drop the statues

Examining screen size and scene size

Time for action – adjusting the drop-location of the statue

Time for action – making the behavior more flexible

Introducing randomness into our game

Time for action – introducing randomness to our behavior

Time for action – making the statues disappear after a delay

Implementing our first special effect

Time for action – making the statues disappear after a delay

Understanding active actors

Time for action – stopping the statues from becoming inactive

Creating a countdown timer

Time for action – creating a countdown timer

Implementing decision making into our game

Time for action – listening for the countdown to reach zero

Repositioning an actor during gameplay

Time for action – creating an event to relocate the monkey

Triggering custom events in our behaviors

Time for action – triggering a custom event

Summary

Chapter 5. Animation in Stencyl

Creating an actor using an imported image file

Time for action – importing an image into the Animation Editor

Understanding Stencyl's animation terminology