Creating a Cross-platform 2D Game in Stencyl

By Richard Sneyd
Throughout these lessons, we'll learn how to build a functional game prototype from beginning to end using the Stencyl game engine and toolset. Software required: Stencyl 3.2, Adobe Photoshop CS6.
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Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Aug 6, 2015
Duration
4h 27m
Table of contents
Introduction and Project Overview
Introduction and Project Overview 1m
Creating a Cross-platform 2D Game in Stencyl
Navigating the Stencyl Interface 9m Setting up Our Stencyl Project 11m Importing and Configuring Backgrounds 5m Building Level Geometry with Tilesets 7m Importing and Configuring Actors 6m Continuing to Import and Configure Actors 10m Reacting to Keyboard Input 9m Handling Mouse Input 11m Making the Gravity Gun Follow Player 12m Rotating the Gravity Gun 9m Using Custom Events to Create Better Structure 10m Handling Multiple States 12m Debugging the Gravity Gun 10m Creating Physics Based Gameplay 11m Implementing a Health System 12m Refining the Health System 6m Expanding the Level Space 12m Adding Moving Comets to the Game 8m Adding Enemy Npcs 11m Using Regions to Trigger Custom Events 4m Creating Visual Effects Using the Draw Event 12m Improving the Enemy Handler 9m Adding Sound Effects 9m Creating a Particle Emitter 10m Importing and Configuring Bitmap Fonts 5m Tracking Score and Drawing the Hud 10m Improving and Refactoring Our Code 11m Polishing the Prototype 8m Implementing Shaders for Windows Builds 8m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Aug 6, 2015
Duration
4h 27m
Description

Throughout these lessons, we'll learn how to build a functional game prototype from beginning to end using the Stencyl game engine and toolset. We'll cover everything from capturing and responding to player input, to importing and configuring our own custom assets to start building great games with Stencyl. Software required: Stencyl 3.2, Adobe Photoshop CS6.

About the author
Richard Sneyd
About the author

Richard Sneyd is the founder and CEO of CyberMyth Games where he must wear many hats, including that of a programmer, designer, digital 2D and 3D artist, sound designer, scriptwriter, texture artist, leader, and marketer.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Introduction and Project Overview
Hi everyone, my name is Richard Sneyd, and I'm founder of CyberMyth Games. I am a published developer of multi-platform computer games, and in addition to this, I have authored several popular game development courses and books, such as "Stencil Essentials". I've also taught game development classes in a number of colleges for over five years now. In this course, we're going to learn how to create multi-platform computer games in half the time it would usually take, using the Stencil game engine and toolset. Some of the key takeaways from this course include: how to quickly sculpt game worlds in Stencil using tile sets and backgrounds, creating interactivity and gameplay within our game worlds using actors and behaviors. Creating heads-up-displays for our games, accepting and responding to player input through the use of event driven conditional logic. And adding polish with partical effects, land molds, and shaders. By the end of training, you will be able to use Stencil to rapidly develop and publish your own desktop and mobile games. I'm excited to be working with Digital Tutors, and to share this valuable knowledge with my fellow game developers. So let's get started with the first lesson.

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