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Crash Course 1 A Brief Introduction to Stencyl

Introduces you to the various parts of the Stencyl workflow. Takes 30 minutes.


Step 1: Create a New Game Get started with Stencyl. View
Step 2: Gather Resources Work with Actors, Tilesets, Sounds and Behaviors. View
Step 3: Customize Actors Attach behaviors to the player actor. View
Step 4: Create a Scene Build a level for your game. View
Step 5: Test your Game Run your game in Flash Player. View



Crash Course 2 Create a game from scratch

In this course, you'll create a "Space Invaders" like game from scratch. In the process, you'll touch upon all the fundamentals required to make games with Stencyl. Takes 1-2 hours.


The Beginning


Introduction A summary of what you'll learn. View
Step 1: Create a Game Get started. View
Step 2: Create Actors Learn about Animations and Physics. View
Step 3: Actor Collisions Create a Collision Group. View
Step 4: More Actors Create a few more actors. View

Build the Game Out


Step 5: Import Sounds Learn about Sound Effects vs. Music. View
Step 6: Create a Scene Build out a scene and test your game. View
Step 7: Add Background Music Learn about Events too! View

Add Logic


Step 8: Make the Ship Move A crash course in creating game logic. View
Step 9: Keep the Ship on Screen Learn about coordinates and positioning. View
Step 10: Firing Bullets Learn about creating actors. View
Step 11: Destroying Bullets Learn about how to handle collisions. View
Step 12: Destroying Enemy Ships More collision work. View

Finishing Touches


Step 13: Creating a Font Learn about fonts and drawing text. View
Step 14: Winning the Game Draw text and build logic while you're at. View
Step 15: Final Touches Publish the game. Some additional challenges. View