For my first try in Stencyl, I used the default characters, stage and sound that came with the software.
I followed the tutorials from here : http://www.stencyl.com/help/view/crash-course/
Firstly, there will be a box on the screen next to other default games which is labeled "create a new game". I clicked on that and named my testing game.
After that is done, I'll be brought to this screen :
The little critters on the screen are my "actors" aka "characters". Pronger will be the enemy while Mambo will be the main character.
Then, I double click on Mambo's icon and I can edit Mambo's animated movements.
The software already has the default animation for Mambo, so all I have to do is select the suitable animations for his movements.
Now, for Pronger, I did the same thing that I did for Mambo :
After that, there will be tabs on the same page listed Appearance, Behaviours, Events, Collision, Physics, and properties.
I clicked on behaviours and I get to add behaviours for my characters such as walking, jumping etc.
I can choose the controls to move right and left. And the idle animation for my character's current direction it's facing.
Now I can leave that aside for a while..
Then I clicked "dashboard" to get to the main menus. And clicked "tileset" on the left. There is already a default tileset available for me :
And now I can create a new scene by clicking at the dashboard on the left "scenes" :
And then I get this:
On the right side of the screen, there will be 2 tabs, "tiles" and "actors".
By clicking tiles, I can create a ground for my characters to stand on :
After that, I switched to the actors tab and added my prongers and mambo :
After that, there will be a few tabs at the scene too, and I clicked on physics to set the gravity for my scene :
And now I am ready to test scene (just like flash) .
Test scene's icon is at the top right of the screen, after clicking the icon I get my swf :
After saving, I wanted to open my file again, however I have no clue as to where the file is saved to because when I was saving, I am given no options to choose where my file is saved to.
I did a few google search and found out how to find my saved game.
All I have to do is to click the Debug tab and click on "view workspace folder".
However, I cannot open the game file (for editing) simply by clicking it. I have to open Stencyl to open my game for editing :
That's all for my first try outs, the next try out I'll try to create my own character rather than to use the default ones.
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