Stencyl tiles Pc#
At the same time, I’m slightly wary of using Stencyl for something like a PC indie game because it currently doesn’t handle console controllers (which is sort of a must) and I’m also wary of how it handles resolution changes.
Stencyl tiles crack#
I might go back to my StarBastards game one day and have a crack at some pixel-art for it. Want to make something top-down? Something turn-based? Something like a board game or which is heavily dependent on GUI? Have fun de-checking all those default boxes that ensure every object you create initially behaves like a bouncy ball! Stencyl is also programmed to assume that you’re making a physics-enabled sideview action game. There are so many keyboard shortcuts that are generally thought of as universal to anyone who uses Adobe or Office which simply aren’t there. The main issues which stand out to me are more related to general usability and workflow. You sort of expect ease-of-use to have some sort of cost.
Stencyl tiles code#
Any “proper” game developer will tell you that working without code is severely limiting in a lot of ways but, to be honest, that isn’t my main bugbear with the program.
I’ve looked at both programs, both have a “drag and drop” lego-brick style kiddie language like this one, and both also allow you to code from scratch, it’s simply that Stencyl has been marketed along the same bright, simplistic, kiddy-friendly lines as Scratch whereas GM:Studio looks a lot sleeker. One of the more bizarre things I’ve seen trotted out in Stencyl vs Gamemaker debates is that you can’t code in Stencyl. People thought you couldn’t make decent stuff in GM:S until people started doing it. The strengths of the program are very much a case of “the proof is in the pudding”. Rogue-likes (where the game environment is generated in-game rather than authored) are do-able, and having planets you can only visit once was both a nod to rogue-like conventions and also a response to limitations in the system. Unlike RPG Maker, Stencyl has no built-in functionality for remembering what the player did last time they were in the current room. This is the sort of game where Stencyl’s built in box2d physics system really comes into its own. The player’s ship controls in a “floaty” way similar to the older Lander and Thrust games and has an elemental damage system lifted straight out of Borderlands. Stencyl is still essentially “cheating”, allowing me to make my game-like-objects without having to learn to program.īelow there’s a short video of something I started making back before I was confident in my own art assets – probably my most accomplished Stencyl project. The planet is procedurally generated from a solid wall of tiles plus a script which digs out various winding caves and tunnels and places ores at different depths.
Stencyl tiles upgrade#
It can make iOS or Android or native PC games (with a reasonable additional upgrade fee for these formats). Whereas Scratch games were (last time I checked) only playable in Scratch, Stencyl can export to Flash and various other file formats. Stencyl is ostensibly a “grown up” version of Scratch.
It’s cheating, and its severely limiting, but it’s a nifty shortcut to get to grips with the basics.Ībout 18 months ago I started playing around with Stencyl. Scratch was particularly easy to pick up because the “coding” involved simply involves clicking together blocks of logic into a sort of flow-chart structure. I would spend hours make environments in HalfLife’s editor, and bending Warcraft 3’s engine to try and make genres it wasn’t really intended to make – a practice that gave us the MOBA genre and the (re?)birth of tower defence. This rekindled a love of making game-like-things (I won’t called them “games” because none of them ever reached a state of playability) during my teenage years.
Some of them took to it, some of them didn’t. Hiriam Walker on Platform-Based Gaming Culture…Ĥ years ago when I was supporting classes in an IT department we started using Scratch to teach basic game-programming stuff to kids aged 11-16. The Game Crafter on My experience with a Game Craf… Joebaxterwebb on My experience with a Game Craf… The Game Crafter… on My experience with a Game Craf…ĭangercube: the Pre-… on Dangercube: Finally Finding th…
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