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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sneyd, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2015.
Colección:Community experience distilled.
Temas:
Video games > Design.
Video games > Programming.
Jeux vidéo > Conception.
Jeux vidéo > Programmation.
COMPUTERS > Programming > Games.
Computer games > Design
Video games > Programming
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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