Create Your First Computer Game with Stencyl

Name: Create Your First Computer Game with Stencyl
Brand: Richard Sneyd
Price: 18.00 USD
Availability: Discontinued

6 Hours

$18.00

42 Lessons (6h)

First Steps: Getting Setup
Welcome To The World Of Game Creation
Overview
Structure or Lessons
Installing The Required Software - Stencyl
From Concept To Creation: The Design Process
The Importance Of Planning
The Concept
Intro To Stencyl: Starting Our Game
Exploring The Stencyl Environment
User Input & Character Movement
Understanding Attributes (AKA Variables), & Creating the Enemy Actor
Character Rotation: Looking At The Mouse
Making Him Shoot (This is fun)
Basic Concepts: Quiz
Important Concepts Examined
Events Explained
The Most Important Blocks
Basic Loops
How Stencyl Handles Audio
Creating Conditional Logic - If Statements
The Behaviour Library
Intermediate Concepts
Creating Your Own Game Art (Sprites and Sound FX)
Downloading the Free Trial of Photoshop CS6
Introducing Photoshop CS6
Creating The Crosshair
Developing Core Functionality
Basic AI
Camera Follow
Adding The Crosshair
Collision Groups - Setting Them Up
Updating Sprites - A Nicer Projectile
Boundaries
Create Explosion On Die
Handling Avatar States - Switching Animations
Cannot Be Pushed
Advanced AI
AI Bug Fix 1
Finishing The Game
Enemy Shoot
Die After X Seconds
Bug Fix 2
Adding The Helicopter
Creating Health Bars
Destructible Environment 1
Destructible Environment 2
Refactoring The Code
Game Rules
Game Rules 2
Advanced Concepts
Conclusion
Congratulations! Now, What Next?

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Build Amazing 2D Games in Just 6 Hours with No Previous Experience

Richard SneydRichard Sneyd is the CEO of CyberMyth Games, an independent game development studio based in Ireland. He also moonlights as a game design lecturer, drawing upon his years of experience creating games, and prides himself on his easily digestible teaching style. For more details on the course and instructor, click here. This course is hosted by StackSkills, the premier eLearning destination for discovering top-shelf courses on everything from coding—to business—to fitness, and beyond!

Description

Stencyl is a simply, effective solution for building amazing games for any platform, without writing a line of code. With the barriers to game development lower than ever, this course in an excellent introduction to the game design and production process. Download the starter version today for free, and take this course to bring your game ideas to the web.

Learn Stencyl w/ over 42 lectures & 6 hours of content
Master the Stencyl game building workflow
Navigate the Stencyl software w/ ease
Study the creation of characters & their movements
Make your own game art in Photoshop
Incorporate user input into refining your game
Comprehensively plan the structure, trajectory & goals of your game design
Create dynamic Mac, iOS, Android, Linux & Windows games without coding

Official Stencyl-endorsed course!

Specs

Details & Requirements

Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
Certification of completion not included
Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
Experience level required: beginner

Compatibility

Internet required
Stencyl software required (download instructions included in course)

Terms

Unredeemed licenses can be returned for store credit within 30 days of purchase. Once your license is redeemed, all sales are final.

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