These are basically the way you “program” your Stencyl game and we will revisit both shortly. The Create A Polygon tool is a bit clunky but gets the job done:īack to the Scene editor, you will notice the next two tabs after Scene are Behaviors and Events: Should you require more precise collisions than the default shapes, you can define your own Collision Bounds:
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Three things can be set for each tile, a custom piece of metadata that can be access by code (perhaps a text description of the tile), the collision shape for the bounds of the triangle, using either a default shape or defining your own, and finally the frames of animation for animated tiles. You can then edit each tile in the tileset: The Tilesets themselves are created as a Tileset resource at the dashboard: The ability to paint with multiple textures is also present: There is also support for defining regions, placing physics joints, adding rows and columns of tiles all at once and more. The tile placement experience is very smooth with functionality you would expect like snapping, flood filling (painting an entire region with a single tile) and grids. The editor supports multiple layers of tiles with various blending modes available. The Scene editor (shown above) enables you to paint scenes using tiles for a tileset, or to place your various actors within the world. The editor has several modes available across the top (Scene, Behaviors, Events, Physics, Atlases and Properties). Loading a Scene brings up the scene editor Created resources are available across all scenes. The game itself is broken up into Scenes and scenes are composed of Actors, Backgrounds, Fonts, Sounds and Tilesets.
The Dashboard is the home page of your game. Once you’ve actually created a project you’ve got even better integration with their online store ( misnomer, as everything currently is free ). It comes with a sample game included and one nice feature of Stencyl is the ability to seamlessly download additional assets from their website including additional examples and editor extensions. When you first launch Stencyl this is your initial view of the editor: Stencyl is a relatively self contained providing almost all of the tooling you need in a single editor. There is an HD video version of this guide available here. Amazingly enough, you may find you do not actually want to! Stencyl provides a high level Lego block type programming experience but coders need not fear, you can drop into code easily if you want. Stencyl is free to use for the Flash target with additional platforms coming with a fee.
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Stencyl is a cross platform 2D game engine with tools that run on Windows, Mac and Linux and capable of targeting all of those, plus Flash, Android and iOS.
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The Closer Look At series is a cross between a preview, review and getting started guide and should help you determine if a game engine is right for you. In this “A Closer Look at”, we will be taking an in-depth look at the Stencyl game engine.
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