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Stencyl Essentials

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Published in Apr 2015

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ISBN-13 9781784399450

Pages 206 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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2D Game Development

Author (1):

Richard Sneyd

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Stencyl Essentials

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Exploring the Stencyl Toolset and Game Engine

2. Starting the Game Project

3. Backgrounds and Tilesets

4. Building Levels Using Scenes

5. Actor Types and Instances

6. Writing Simple Behaviors

7. Complex Behaviors and Code

8. Adding Sound FX and Music

9. Adding HUD Elements

10. Adding Menus and Buttons

11. Scoring and Game Rules

12. Publishing and Monetization

Index

Index

A

Actor Behavior / The dynamic cursor, Monetization with ads
Actor Behaviors
- about / What are actors?
actors
- about / What are actors?
- adding / Adding our first actor
adaptive cursor
- about / Adaptive cursor
- game states / Adaptive cursor
ad extensions / Ad extensions
AdMob / Ad extensions
advertisement APIs
- AdMob / Ad extensions
- RevMob / Ad extensions
- Vungle / Ad extensions
Android
- about / Mobile publishing and monetization
animation
- importing / Importing our first animation
- collision shape / Collision shapes
API (Application Programming Interface) / Monetization with ads
Audacity
- URL / Supporting both MP3 and OGG formats
audio files
- importing, into Stencyl / Importing audio files into Stencyl

B

background
- creating / Adding our first background, Adding the scene and background
Background
- about / Backgrounds and foregrounds
backgrounds
- about / Backgrounds and foregrounds
- Home Screen Background / Three more backgrounds
- Plain Wood Background / Three more backgrounds
- Bushy Foreground / Three more backgrounds
- implementing / Implementing foregrounds and backgrounds
banner ads / Monetization with ads
Behavior types
- Scene Behaviors / What are actors?
- Actor Behaviors / What are actors?
Bushy Foreground / Three more backgrounds
buttons
- creating / Adding the buttons
- programming / Programming the button

C

coin collection code
- working on / Coin collection
coin collection gameplay
- programming / Collecting coins
coin collisions / Coin collisions and physics settings
collision shape, animation / Collision shapes
control system, Mudslide Cowboy game
- about / The control system
- adaptive cursor / Adaptive cursor

D

Dashboard
- about / The Dashboard
- Scene Designer / Scene Designer
- Palette / The Palette
- Log Viewer / The Log Viewer
dynamic cursor
- about / The dynamic cursor
- creating / The dynamic cursor
- code, writing for controlling / The dynamic cursor

F

fictional element, Mudslide Cowboy game / The fictional element
first level
- creating / Creating our first level
font
- importing / Importing the font
- configuring / Importing the font
foregrounds
- about / Backgrounds and foregrounds
- implementing / Implementing foregrounds and backgrounds

G

game project
- creating / Creating the game project
game states, adaptive cursor
- Down / Adaptive cursor
- Left / Adaptive cursor
- Right / Adaptive cursor
- Lasso / Adaptive cursor
- Whip / Adaptive cursor

H

Home Screen Background / Three more backgrounds

I

interstitial ads / Monetization with ads
iOS
- about / Mobile publishing and monetization

J

jZip
- URL, for downloading / The project files

L

level
- tiles, adding to / Adding tiles to our level
Log Viewer
- about / The Log Viewer

M

.MP3 format
- supporting / Supporting both MP3 and OGG formats
mobile game ads
- interstitial ads / Monetization with ads
- banner ads / Monetization with ads
mobile platforms
- iOS / Mobile publishing and monetization
- Android / Mobile publishing and monetization
mobile publishing
- about / Mobile publishing and monetization
monetization
- about / Mobile publishing and monetization
monetization, with ads
- about / Monetization with ads
- ad extensions / Ad extensions
Mudslide Cowboy game
- about / Mudslide Cowboy
- fictional element / The fictional element
- rules / The game rules
- target platforms / Target platforms
- control system / The control system
multiple tile layers / Multiple tile layers
music
- playing, in Stencyl / Playing sound FX and music in Stencyl
Music
- about / Sound file designation in Stencyl

O

.OGG format
- supporting / Supporting both MP3 and OGG formats

P

Palette
- about / The Palette
PC (Player Character) / Adding our first actor
physics settings
- configuring, for Coin actor / Coin collisions and physics settings
Plain Wood Background / Three more backgrounds
Player Character (PC) / The game rules, The player handler
player handler
- about / The player handler
- new actor behavior, creating / Creating a new actor behavior
- attributes, creating / Creating attributes
- custom events, creating / Custom events
- code, testing / Testing and debugging
- code, debugging / Testing and debugging
- balloon actor, adding / Adding the balloon
- prefab behaviors, configuring / Configuring prefab behaviors
player interaction, adding
- about / Adding player interaction
- variables, initializing / Initializing the variables
- player clicks, handling / Handling player clicks
- custom block, creating / Our first custom block
- directional clicks, handling / Handling directional clicks
- mouse event / The when mouse is released event
- animations, switching / Switching animations
prefab behaviors
- about / Configuring prefab behaviors
- configuring / Configuring prefab behaviors
- modifying / Modifying prefab behaviors
- changes, testing / Testing the changes
project files
- about / The project files
Proof of Concept (POC) / Mobile publishing and monetization

R

RevMob / Ad extensions
rock actor type
- importing / Importing the rock Actor Type
rules, Mudslide Cowboy game / The game rules

S

scene
- creating / Adding the scene and background
Scene Behavior / Monetization with ads
Scene Behaviors
- about / What are actors?
Scene Designer
- about / Scene Designer
- Scene tab / Scene Designer
- Behaviors tab / Scene Designer
- Events tab / Scene Designer
- Physics tab / Scene Designer
- Background tab / Scene Designer
- Properties tab / Scene Designer
screen
- text, rendering to / Rendering text to the screen
sound file designation, Stencyl / Sound file designation in Stencyl
sound FX
- playing, in Stencyl / Playing sound FX and music in Stencyl
Sound FX
- about / Sound file designation in Stencyl
Stencyl
- about / Downloading and installing Stencyl
- URL, for downloading / Downloading and installing Stencyl
- downloading / Downloading and installing Stencyl
- installing / Downloading and installing Stencyl
- account, creating / Creating an account and signing in
- signing in / Creating an account and signing in
- screens / Exploring Stencyl – screens and windows
- windows / Exploring Stencyl – screens and windows
- references / The Welcome Center tab
- audio files, importing into / Importing audio files into Stencyl
- sound file designation / Sound file designation in Stencyl
- sound FX, playing in / Playing sound FX and music in Stencyl
- music, playing in / Playing sound FX and music in Stencyl
- URL / Store certificates
store certificates
- about / Store certificates

T

target platforms, Mudslide Cowboy game / Target platforms
text
- rendering, to screen / Rendering text to the screen
tiles
- adding, to level / Adding tiles to our level
tilesets
- about / Our first tileset
- implementing, in game / Our first tileset

U

Ubuntu installation, Stencyl website
- reference link / Downloading and installing Stencyl

V

Vungle / Ad extensions

W

Welcome Center
- about / The Welcome Center
- drop-down menus / Drop-down menus
- toolbar / The toolbar
Welcome Center tab
- about / The Welcome Center tab

Z

z-order / Multiple tile layers

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Authors (1)

Richard Sneyd

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.

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