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Stencyl Essentials

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

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    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.

    What you will learn

    • Discover the key benefits of Stencyl, its technical structure, and what makes it so special
    • Understand and work effectively with the Stencyl interface
    • Set up scenes and alter their settings at will
    • Import and utilize graphics
    • Integrate sound FX and music in your games
    • Create and configure actor types and instances
    • Implement tilesets and backgrounds by importing them in to your game
    • Write custom behaviors to control your actors

    Who this book is for

    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.

    Table of Contents

    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 Behaviours and Code
    8. Adding Sound Effects and Music
    9. Adding HUD Elements
    10. Adding Menus and Buttons
    11. Scoring and Game Rules
    12. Publishing and Monetization
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78439-047-1
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 206