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Abigayl's Interactive Tutorials (Part 1)
by Joe (Updated on 2012-07-21)
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")
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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
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Abigayl
@mwilks: It is Paint.NET, not the normal paint that comes with your computer. I briefly explain how to use it in tutorial 5.
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@mwilks: It is Paint.NET, not the normal paint that comes with your computer. I briefly explain how to use it in tutorial 5.
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mwilks
Love this. very helpful. Question tho, what version of paint are you using? Looks like it has alot more features than mine and second you should mention how to make tilesets. Thanks in advavnce
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Love this. very helpful. Question tho, what version of paint are you using? Looks like it has alot more features than mine and second you should mention how to make tilesets. Thanks in advavnce
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Capadac
Nice, very nice there aren't a lot of good tutorials out there but yours are the most helpful I've found! :-)
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Nice, very nice there aren't a lot of good tutorials out there but yours are the most helpful I've found! :-)
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Abigayl
Captin, that is strange. If you can send me a screenshot of your coding, I can see if I can figure out the problem.
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Captin, that is strange. If you can send me a screenshot of your coding, I can see if I can figure out the problem.
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Captinskele
Thank you for the tutorial! I only have one glitch - after following Tutoroial 1. My enemy does not spawn in huge numbers, only ONE enemy flies out of somewhere on the screen and nothing else happens. I can do everything else, like move my player, but apparantly there is only one enemy?
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Thank you for the tutorial! I only have one glitch - after following Tutoroial 1. My enemy does not spawn in huge numbers, only ONE enemy flies out of somewhere on the screen and nothing else happens. I can do everything else, like move my player, but apparantly there is only one enemy?
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