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Create your First Computer Game with Stencyl
First Steps: Getting Setup
Welcome To The World Of Game Creation (1:04)
Overview (8:34)
Structure of Lessons (4:50)
Installing The Required Software - Stencyl (2:14)
From Concept To Creation: The Design Process
The Importance Of Planning (3:51)
The Concept (5:04)
Intro To Stencyl: Starting Our Game
Exploring The Stencyl Environment (13:44)
User Input & Character Movement (29:50)
Understanding Attributes (AKA Variables), & Creating the Enemy Actor (12:09)
Character Rotation: Looking At The Mouse (12:35)
Making Him Shoot (This is fun) (6:03)
Basic Concepts
Important Concepts Examined
Events Explained (9:56)
The Most Important Blocks (4:25)
Basic Loops (6:28)
How Stencyl Handles Audio (2:33)
Creating Conditional Logic - If Statements (9:11)
The Behaviour Library (3:56)
Intermediate Concepts
Creating Your Own Game Art (Sprites and Sound FX)
Downloading the Free Trial of Photoshop CS6 (1:16)
Introducing Photoshop CS6 (10:16)
Creating The Crosshair (12:23)
Developing Core Functionality
Basic AI (19:16)
Camera Follow (0:54)
Adding The Crosshair (7:54)
Collision Groups - Setting Them Up (9:03)
Updating Sprites - A Nicer Projectile (3:27)
Boundaries
Create Explosion On Die (3:09)
Handling Avatar States - Switching Animations (5:49)
Cannot Be Pushed (1:20)
Advanced AI (29:20)
AI Bug Fix 1 (21:16)
Finishing The Game
Enemy Shoot (8:21)
Die After X Seconds (2:40)
Bug Fix 2 (1:37)
Adding The Helicopter (4:19)
Creating Health Bars (25:37)
Destructible Environment 1 (5:30)
Destructible Environment 2 (10:25)
Refactoring The Code (5:37)
Game Rules (8:36)
Game Rules 2 (12:18)
Advanced Concepts
Conclusion
Congratulations! Now, What Next? (0:43)
The Concept
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