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Switch to Book Layout 1: Getting Started Getting Started Crash Course Crash Course 2 StencylForge 2: Building Logic What is a Behavior? Creating a Behavior Attributes Game Attributes Attribute Types Events Our Behaviors 3: Actors What are Actors? Animations Motion & Forces Physics Controls Collisions & Groups Killing vs. Recycling Tweening Effects Chapter 3 Challenge 4: Scenes Scene Basics The Camera Tilesets Regions Drawing Text & HUDs Changing Scenes Music, Sounds & Channels Backgrounds Customizing Actors Chapter 4 Challenge 5: Game Mechanics Saving Pausing 3rd Party Services Web Requests 6: Advanced Topics Get/Set Attributes Custom Events Blending Modes Lists Custom Blocks Continuous Collisions 7: Testing & Tuning Testing Games Optimizing Performance 1 Optimizing Performance 2 8: The Last 10% Flash Publishing Standalone Apps iOS App Store Chrome Store Making Money M1: Mobile - Intro Getting Started Testing on your Device Flash -> iOS Guide M2: Mobile - Basics Atlases Drawing Text Retina Display Accelerometer Joystick Universal Games M3: Mobile - Services iAds Game Center In-App Purchases M4: Mobile - Publishing Debugging Publishing to the App Store Optimizing Performance Promoting your Game A: Troubleshooting Showstoppers General FAQ iOS FAQ The 90% Memory Warning Recovering Broken Games Can't Export to SWF Reloading Documents Generating Logs Flash Security Settings How to Report Bugs B: How-To Guides Importing Assets Scene Designer Code Mode Font Editor Pencyl (Image Editor) Tile Editor (Shapes) Game Cleaner C: Reference Glossary Block Reference Useful Shortcuts Stencyl API D: Resources Stencyl TV Abigayl's Guides Giving Critiques Creating Extensions Translating Stencyl Credits 3.0 Drafts (In Progress) What's New in Stencyl 3.0? Setup (Android) Setup (Desktop) Setup (iOS) - Concepts Setup (iOS) - Mac Setup (iOS) - Windows Testing iOS on Windows iOS Troubleshooter Mobile App Scaling Full Screen Mode Simple Physics Backgrounding an App iOS App Store Mac App Store Windows Store Google Play HTML5 Android Ads Android Purchases (WIP) 4" Form Factor (iPhone 5) Mobile Input Mobile Features Extending the Engine iOS / Android Extensions Developing the Official Extensions Developing the Engine iAds (Revised) Game Center (Revised) iOS Purchases (Revised) Atlases (Revised) Drawing Text (Revised) Joystick (Revised) Accelerometer (Revised) Sounds (Revised, WIP) Debugging (Revised, WIP) iOS Performance (Revised)
		Level: Beginner Abigayl's Interactive Tutorials (Part 1) Tutorial 1 - The Basics CHANGES TO CURRENT STENCYL VERSION: Game Center is now Dashboard No longer need to make Actor Behaviors; can use "Events" tab instead Now need to use "Add an Event" at the top left to make the headings If using events, do not need to "Attach to Actor" (still needed with Behaviors though) Collisions Groups are now in the Settings button at the top of the page Collisions between Actors are now handled by collision events (use "Member of Group" and change the group to "Actors") Liked this one? See them all! Part 1: The Basics Part 2: Attributes, Saving/Loading, Kongregate API Part 3: Advanced Controls, Spawning Part 4: Mouse-based Shooting, Collisions and HP Part 5: Music, Screen Boundaries, Backgrounds, Power-ups and More Part 6: Virtually Lagless Actors Last Updated: 2012-07-21 by Joe 61738 have read this article Disclaimer: The Stencyl Team does not actively monitor comments on articles. If you're seeking help for your game, please ask a question on the forums. Thanks! 115 Comments SpookyBurger Awesome tutorial, thanks for putting it out there. Linked it to a friend who is just starting out. 0 2 months, 2 weeks ago Wifido Thanks for the tutorials. I am trying to follow this one and so far have the following issues: 1. I did not see instructions on how to start the demo (click the screen). Figured it out. Would be nice to have a "Click here" to start the tutorial. 2. Often the screen advances quickly to the next slide...i may have double clicked. I can't find a way to get to the previous screen so I have to reload. Would be nice to have a "prev/next" button or area. 3. I am in version 2.2 and when I click behaviors it does not pop up a "Categories" window where I can pick the type of behavior. Which makes me wonder if 2.2 has these by default or if I have to download them or... When I add a behavior it does not come up with the "Always" block. I believe you have to add an Update event for that... 0 3 months, 2 weeks ago computermaster My player isn't dying when they touch enemies. Can you help? 0 3 months, 3 weeks ago ZacDMW I don't feel like too much of a newb anymore, thank you :) 0 4 months, 1 week ago brundroid Thanks for the great help Abigayl! 0 5 months, 1 week ago ReFlare how do i draw a character? 0 5 months, 4 weeks ago sokbou Nice tutorial! I'm a fresh starter and I feel it so easy to create a game. Now I'm gonna follow all of your tutorial and then I'll create my own dream game. Thanks you very much for your shared. 0 6 months, 2 weeks ago ninjassasin Abigayl, can you help me with a problem? My carecter is doing all its supost to but 5 seconds in the game and it moves by it self and starts doing loops and moving out of the scene. Do you know why and how to fix it..? 1 7 months, 2 days ago jackrm110 Oh and on my Behaviors tab, I do not have an option so set behavior type, so when I open the behavior editing menu the workspace is blank. How do I enter in those "When Created" and "Always" tags? Sorry if my terminology is incorrect haha. 1 7 months, 3 days ago jackrm110 So much more helpful than the Crash Courses. You explained everything so simply, and defined everything you did. Very excited to read your other tutorials! 0 7 months, 3 days ago 123NextLast Commenting Guidelines Sign In to Comment

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