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Crash Course: Let's Make a Game! (Part 5)

by Jon (Updated on 2015-10-17)


Part 1 (Intro) - Part 2 (Resources) - Part 3 (Actors) - Part 4 (Create a Scene) - Part 5 (Test your Game)

Test Your Game! (Part 5 of 5)

Click the Test Game button in the top toolbar to give your game a try.

Test Game

You should be able to walk with the left and right arrow keys and jump with ā€œzā€.

Try pushing the Clown Actors around and jumping on them. If you fall off the screen, the Scene should reload.

Game, in action

Note: You can quickly test your game at any time using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Enter (or Command-Enter on Mac).

Congratulations!

You've just created and tested your first game in Stencyl. That's quite an accomplishment already, and we've barely even scratched the surface of Stencyl's capabilities.

Where do I go from here?

There's a whole lot more to Stencyl, and we encourage you to experiment on your own and read through the rest of Stencylpedia to find out how to import your own resources, create your own Behaviors, and enable Stencyl to help you create the games of your dreams.

If you'd like a more in-depth guided tour, we recommend jumping straight into Crash Course 2, where you can create your own Space Invaders-like game.

Continue to Crash Course 2 →

Troubleshooting

When I fall into the pit, the scene doesn't reload.

As directed in Part 3 at the end of the Customizing Noni section, attach the Die in Pit and Reload Behavior to Noni.

Noni goes through the Clowns

Don't forget to set Clown's Group to Enemies.

I receive a Flash error when running the game. The screen is just white.

Please post a topic on the forums and attach the game to your post. (Use File > Export Game... to do this)

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71 Comments

th3gamesknight
Noni goes through the clowns even I made them enemies

2 10 years, 2 months ago
wangmander
When I try to Test Game "Encountered errors while building your game".
1 10 years, 2 months ago
Uberwald
Jumping on multiple enemies at once multiplies the jump height. Is there a way to fix this? I'm band new to Stencyl and just completed the 1st crash course.
2 10 years, 4 months ago
seapiglandpig
The clowns keep falling off the screen when i start my game
4 10 years, 4 months ago
TheRealPandaKing
When I load in the game to test it, the clowns just fall through the ground and out of the world, I don't know what i am doing wrong...
1 10 years, 4 months ago
lupin4
I was able to convert the sounds, but my desktop test run is still crashing on windows 10, any thoughts?
-1 10 years, 4 months ago
Bren71
Nice! I did this tutorial once before but this time around it was easier to understand. I had fun playing the game after it was created.
1 10 years, 5 months ago
computesnerd1916
it will not tell you how to make levels, how do you?
1 10 years, 5 months ago
Jon
As described in our Sounds article (http://www.stencyl.com/help/view/p laying-sounds-and-music/), testing on any platform besides Flash requires OGG sounds. I'll have the crash course game updated to include those, so it can be run on desktop targets.
1 10 years, 5 months ago
NANYAO
Thx for the lesson, but for test game, if test in flash it's ok but if test in "mac" it shows " this platform require OGG sounds" and it asked me to import sounds which I cant find the sound track....
1 10 years, 5 months ago

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