Create your First Computer Game with Stencyl

Create your First Computer Game with Stencyl, available at $39.99, has an average rating of 4, with 42 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 111 reviews, and has 5418 subscribers.

You will learn about By the end of this course, you will be capable of creating your own 2D games You will learn to build logic in a visual interface, skills which are transferable to traditional programming if & when you choose to take that step You will learn to create your own sprites with Photoshop You will have acquired a skillset which, in the near future, will allow you to publish your creations to Windows Desktop, Windows 8, Mac OS, IOS & Android This course is ideal for individuals who are Complete Beginners or Hobbyists who wish to create their first production quality, cross-platform title in less time or Students or Indie Developers, Looking For a Faster Way To Build Multi-Platform Games It is particularly useful for Complete Beginners or Hobbyists who wish to create their first production quality, cross-platform title in less time or Students or Indie Developers, Looking For a Faster Way To Build Multi-Platform Games.

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Summary

Title: Create your First Computer Game with Stencyl

Price: $39.99

Average Rating: 4

Number of Lectures: 42

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 42

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 45

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 45

Original Price: $29.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

By the end of this course, you will be capable of creating your own 2D games
You will learn to build logic in a visual interface, skills which are transferable to traditional programming if & when you choose to take that step
You will learn to create your own sprites with Photoshop
You will have acquired a skillset which, in the near future, will allow you to publish your creations to Windows Desktop, Windows 8, Mac OS, IOS & Android

Who Should Attend

Complete Beginners
Hobbyists who wish to create their first production quality, cross-platform title in less time
Students
Indie Developers, Looking For a Faster Way To Build Multi-Platform Games

Target Audiences

Complete Beginners
Hobbyists who wish to create their first production quality, cross-platform title in less time
Students
Indie Developers, Looking For a Faster Way To Build Multi-Platform Games

Note: This course is officially endorsedby Stencyl.

No prior experience is required to take this course. Learning from the ground up, you will acquire all the skills necessary to Design and Create your very own computer games, which can then be shared with your friends, or even publishedto commercial marketssuch as flash portals, the App Store & Google play. Using the unique logic block systemof Stencyl thought in this Stencyl Course, you will be able to create a game of any genre, quickly and effectively. Please follow through the lectures sequentially, and always maximize the videos to get the most out of them. Among many other things, by the end of the course you will have learned how to:

Create a top-down perspective for your game
Move characters with the keyboard
Easily rotate actors to look at the mouse cursor
Spawn and destroy actors in real-time, at will
Write simple and advanced AI for non-player characters
Design levels using tile-sets and actors
Create health bars
Implement game rules to determine between success or failure

For the most effective learning experience, it is essential that you pay close attentionto each lecture in order, and then complete the task yourself. If you struggle, watch the video again until you get the full sense of the lesson. Get excited, this is a learning experience you’ll never forget. Prepare to start making your own games with Stencyl.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: First Steps: Getting Setup

Lecture 1: Welcome To The World Of Game Creation

Lecture 2: Overview

Lecture 3: Structure of Lessons

Lecture 4: Installing The Required Software – Stencyl

Chapter 2: From Concept To Creation: The Design Process

Lecture 1: The Importance Of Planning

Lecture 2: The Concept

Chapter 3: Intro To Stencyl: Starting Our Game

Lecture 1: Exploring The Stencyl Environment

Lecture 2: User Input & Character Movement

Lecture 3: Understanding Attributes (AKA Variables), & Creating the Enemy Actor

Lecture 4: Character Rotation: Looking At The Mouse

Lecture 5: Making Him Shoot (This is fun)

Chapter 4: Important Concepts Examined

Lecture 1: Events Explained

Lecture 2: The Most Important Blocks

Lecture 3: Basic Loops

Lecture 4: How Stencyl Handles Audio

Lecture 5: Creating Conditional Logic – If Statements

Lecture 6: The Behaviour Library

Chapter 5: Creating Your Own Game Art (Sprites and Sound FX)

Lecture 1: Downloading the Free Trial of Photoshop CS6

Lecture 2: Introducing Photoshop CS6

Lecture 3: Creating The Crosshair

Chapter 6: Developing Core Functionality

Lecture 1: Basic AI

Lecture 2: Camera Follow

Lecture 3: Adding The Crosshair

Lecture 4: Collision Groups – Setting Them Up

Lecture 5: Updating Sprites – A Nicer Projectile

Lecture 6: Boundaries

Lecture 7: Create Explosion On Die

Lecture 8: Handling Avatar States – Switching Animations

Lecture 9: Cannot Be Pushed

Lecture 10: Advanced AI

Lecture 11: AI Bug Fix 1

Chapter 7: Finishing The Game

Lecture 1: Enemy Shoot

Lecture 2: Die After X Seconds

Lecture 3: Bug Fix 2

Lecture 4: Adding The Helicopter

Lecture 5: Creating Health Bars

Lecture 6: Destructible Environment 1

Lecture 7: Destructible Environment 2

Lecture 8: Refactoring The Code

Lecture 9: Game Rules

Lecture 10: Game Rules 2

Chapter 8: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Congratulations! Now, What Next?

Instructors

Richard Sneyd
Game Design Lecturer, Founder & CEO of CyberMyth Games

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 4 votes
2 stars: 3 votes
3 stars: 15 votes
4 stars: 27 votes
5 stars: 62 votes

Frequently Asked Questions

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You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

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