Stencyl essentials : build beautiful, unique, cross-platform games rapidly with the free Stencyl 2D game engine and toolset / Richard Sneyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sneyd, Richard, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Programming.

Video games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Build beautiful, unique, cross-platform games rapidly with the free Stencyl 2D game engine and toolset

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Sneyd Richard: Richard Sneyd (BA Hons. ) is the founder and CEO of CyberMyth Games, an indie game development studio based in Country Cork, Ireland. His role within the company requires that he wears many hats, including that of a programmer, designer, digital 2D and 3D artist, sound designer, scriptwriter, texture artist, leader, marketer, and business man. He is also a fully registered, qualified, and highly experienced lecturer. His specialty subjects include 3D modeling and animation, computer game programming, 2D image processing, game design, desktop audio, psychology, consumer behavior, human resources, and business management. In addition to classroom teaching, he is actively involved in online education, regularly publishing new courses, and various other learning materials, such as books and tutorials, in conjunction with CyberMyth Games. He is enthusiastic about his work, and his students and colleagues think of him as a very dedicated and accomplished teacher. All of his courses and books are characterized by a steady, incremental flow of information, and a lucid teaching style that is easy to understand and follow for all. He is a husband to his wonderful wife, Jennifer, and father to a wonderful son, Darius.

Summary:

If you are a computer game enthusiast who has always wanted to know what it takes to build a playable game, or maybe you would like to expand your programming knowledge so that you can develop great computer games using a solid game engine and toolkit, then this book is for you.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgements; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 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; Chapter 2: Starting the Game Project; Mudslide Cowboy; The fictional element; The game rules; Target platforms; The control system; Adaptive cursor

The project filesCreating the game project; Summary; Chapter 3: Backgrounds and Tilesets; Backgrounds and foregrounds; Adding our first background; Three more backgrounds; Our first tileset; Summary; Chapter 4: Building Levels Using Scenes; Creating our first level; Implementing foregrounds and backgrounds; Adding tiles to our level; Exercise; Summary; Chapter 5: Actor Types and Instances; What are actors?; Adding our first actor; Importing our first animation; Collision shapes; Importing the rock Actor Type; Summary; Chapter 6: Writing Simple Behaviors; The player handler

Creating a new actor behaviorCreating attributes; Custom events; Testing and debugging; Adding the balloon; Configuring prefab behaviors; Modifying prefab behaviors; Testing the changes; Summary; Chapter 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; Chapter 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 StencylSummary; Chapter 9: Adding HUD Elements; The dynamic cursor; Summary; Chapter 10: Adding Menus and Buttons; Adding the scene and background; Adding the buttons; Programming the button; Summary; Chapter 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; Chapter 12: Publishing and Monetization; Mobile publishing and monetization; Monetization with ads; Ad extensions; Store certificates; Summary; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 16, 2015).

OCLC:

910639607