Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; Acknowledgement; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; How Stencyl works; How we'll learn to use Stencyl; Why Stencyl is a great development tool; Rapid prototyping and development; No code development; Sharing resources with other Stencyl developers; Platforms that Stencyl runs on; Stencyl target platforms; Targeting specific devices; Publishing desktop games; Publishing to iOS devices; Publishing to Android; What makes Stencyl different; Stencyl runs on almost any desktop computer.

Stencyl creates native codeYou don't need to be a coder; Using the free version of Stencyl; Using the free version of Stencyl with this book; Successful games created with Stencyl; The Stencyl Showcase; Installing Stencyl and testing the setup; Installing Stencyl; Microsoft Windows; Time for action
downloading and installing Stencyl on Windows; Mac OS X; Time for action
downloading and installing Stencyl for Mac OS X; Linux; Time for action
downloading and installing Stencyl for Linux; Creating a Stencyl account; Time for action
creating an account and signing in.

Testing the Stencyl installationTime For action
testing Stencyl; Summary; Chapter 2: Let's Make a Game!; Using the downloaded game files; Let's get started!; Creating a new game; Time for action
creating a new game; Creating a blank scene; Time for action
creating a blank scene; Downloading resources from StencylForge; Time for action
downloading an actor; Understanding the Stencyl Dashboard; Adding an actor into a scene; Time for action
adding an actor to the jungle scene; Testing the game; Time for action
testing the game; Downloading and using tiles for scenery.

Time for action
downloading tiles from StencylForgeAdding tiles into the scene; Time for action
adding tiles into the scene; Working with tiles; Deleting tiles from a scene; Replacing existing tiles in a scene; Moving tiles in a scene; Selecting multiple tiles; Placing multiple copies of tiles; Finalizing the initial design; Reviewing our progress; Using behaviors to interact with our game; Working with behaviors; Adding behaviors; Time for action
attaching a behavior to an actor; Configuring behaviors with Attributes; Time for action
configuring the behavior; Save the game!

Testing the gameTime for action
testing the game to find a problem!; Improving the scene mechanics; Time for action
adding gravity to the Jungle scene; Keeping an actor in a scene; Time for action
attaching another behavior to the actor; Increasing the width of the gameplay area; Time for action
increasing the width of the scene; Making the screen scroll; Time for action
attaching the Camera Follow behavior; Adding some interesting scenery; Fine-tuning the level design; Finding game testers; Chapter 3: Detecting Collisions; Working with collision detection in Stencyl.

Time for action
enabling the Debug Drawing feature.