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I love that you do this. Its encouraging to have a direction to point new users that have questions. I am so bad at giving stencyl advice, unless I have a visual reference to give (despite being quite familiar, and a member of the early pre-flash beta),
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Its too bad the software costs $99 for windows and $149 for iOS software. I like the fact that you can program Objective-C for iOS without owning a mac. That alone makes this software worth it. Only problem is 149 is quite a commitment.
Solar, Stencyl is FREE to use. The only thing is that Stencyl requires a mention on the preloader (either their splash screen or a little icon). The ENTIRE program can be used without any purchase. The only thing that the $99 does is allow you to get rid of the Stencyl labeling (and the $149 for the same thing for iOS games). All 13 of my programs before this one were made with the free version, netting $100 for charity!
I don't know those games... if you could describe them a bit more, might be able to work aspects into this tutorial set (assuming they are platformers). EDIT: The ideas will be in later tutorials.
There will be some differences between the demo and your game (specifically going out of bounds). If it something other than that, please feel free to come to the livestream (livestream.com/poweredbyflowers) and ask directly what is going on and/or upload the game to Forge and let me see it for myself.
That's why it says tutorial everywhere (and is listed as a tutorial) :P. I just wish it wouldn't go in the games sections so that people didn't confused thinking it's going to be a game...
Aye, seeing things visually helps a lot. It also means you don't have to worry about missing the annoying end brackets, commas, etc. that cause issues galore in normal coding.
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Developer Response from Abigayl Developer Response i wanna the neighbours time methods thanks i want to play stencyl tutorial
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Hahaha this is awesome! Finally finished my game and, after saving it 5 times or so, i hasn't been saved! hahahaha Let's make a better ooone!
That's weird... 2.0 saves things automatically, so that shouldn't be happening. Be sure that the installation was correct and what folder you are saving to.
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Awesome! I did it and it worked =DDD I had one problem with the door thing, because I had a tile with no collision in the same grid slot, but I figured it out =)
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How do I make my player die and reload when he falls off the map?? I did it the way you did it Abigayl but it does nothing.
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wow very nice abigayl! I'm very impressed with this and i'm going to download the free version and check it out! Thanks for the info!
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When you were making the door and you had to go to collision groups... is that part of a resource pack? Because I don't have that. Could you tell me how to get it please?
Thank you so much for these! I've always wanted to make a game but I never had an easy program or good tutorials to work with until now.
You have to save it as a PNG (in Paint.NET), which means you will have to "flatten" the image if you used multiple layers (I often also save the PDN file in case I want to make changes later).
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Great tutorial. I don't really understand why you can double-jump without that second -set jump? to false- script though(page 44).
Actually, looking back over it, it's the first one that's actually not needed. The issue is that collision codes happen AFTER the "always" code, so the first setting to false is actually doing nothing as the actor is still hitting the platform during that frame (so the collision code will reset it to true, which is what allows for the double-jumping).
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My wall jumping seems to launch me rapidly into the air. Also I don't really want wall jumps - any tips for making wall jumps not possible? Thanks for the tutorial, I uprated it :)
A better version of wall jumps is the basis for part 2 of the series (links in the "Updates" section). I also have a simple platformer demo in the games section of the StencylForge if you prefer that instead. :)
I'm making a 3.0 tutorial right now. I'm hoping to finish it in about a week's time. It will have the code to keep the player in-bounds from left-right (which you can then mimic for top-bottom by using y and height instead). I have the current version in this thread: http://community.stencyl.com/index.php/topic,29931.0.html
No actual tutorials (2.0 and 3.0 are almost identical on the user's side). I do have many, many "Demo-" games in the StencylForge that are fully commented if you want to see some other concepts (it's much faster to do those than to do a tutorial series).
If you upload your game to the StencylForge, make it public, and tell me the name of it, I'll take a look at it for you. From what you wrote, my best guess is that you used a "set x to" instead of "set x-speed to" or something similar.
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This is really great. I like how much it simplifies the coding process although I don't plan on making any games, I just did this for a fun little challenge. One problem: for some reason when I open my game, I can't see the whole screen (I see the head of my stickman and everything else works fine). :(
I'm glad you like it. I don't really understand the error though. If you want to, upload the game to StencylForge, make it public, and let me know the name of it, and I'll take a look at it for you.
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Would just like to say I'm impressed by the fact that, even now, over a year after you published this that you are still replying to comments. Kudos to you, and thank you for all the awesome tutorials you've published - they really help.
Are the actors colliding? Check the collision groups and make sure the button is green for them. Also, if you did the coding as a behavior, be sure to attach it to the actor.
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Do you plan to make any other Stencyl Tutorials in the future? because I have some suggestions:
1. Role Play Game Tutorials
2. Free-Running Game Tutorial (like Canabalt or Bit Trip Runner)
3. Top Down Game Tutorials (Of any kind, really)
These are games I want to make, but i don't know how. Any ideas?
Did I just reply to you on the Stencyl forums too? Anyways, I have made a lot more things like tutorials... only now they are "Demo-"s in the StencylForge (search for "Demo-" in the games area of the forge). I've done one part of an RPG tutorial there (didn't seem to be a ton of interest for further ones). I have several free-running games, some scrolling vertically, some horizontally, and a few infinite in all directions. As for the top-down, that sounds a lot like my first tutorial series (check out the "Updates" section or my page for links to all of my real tutorials).
Sometimes Stencyl is like that. It's rather weird. I recently had a game lag really bad during testing; closed and re-opened Stencyl, and it was working normally again. I'm glad you got it working :).
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This is a wonderful tutorial! I am having one small issue, nothing happens when my actor collides with the door. I have checked and triple checked and I've done everything exactly the same as you have. And all the coding is the exact same. I'm not sure why it doesn't seem to respond, and yes, the sensor is checked as well. :/
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Excellent tutorial! When I created my scene and set it to 640x480 it set the tile grid to 20x12. I set it to 20x15 but only 12 are visible when I test my game.
Are you sure you did 640x480 and not 640x384? The 384 is the default. If that is the case, then your extra 3 tiles aren't showing since they are off screen (still there just not visible).
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Encountered a bit of a problem: when I put in my level exit, it resets the level every half-second or so, regardless of whether I've reached the exit or not. D:
Check your coding for the level exit (and any collision codings for it). Make sure it only changes scenes when the player hits it. If you want, upload it to StencylForge (and let me know) and I'll try taking a look at it for you directly.
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Can ya help me out a bit? When I set the "Actor motion" speed (step 14), it registers to Actor instead of Self like in you guide.
Is this a problem, or can it be overlooked?
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My 7 yo son wants to be a game designer and has some ideas he wants to put into game form. This tute series will help me help him take his first steps. Thanks very much! My Fortran and Cobol coding skills aren't that much use in game construction. :)
You're welcome :). Don't count out your other programming knowledge though. Use it to understand the logic behind the blocks in Stencyl. That's what I did ;).
Collision Groups are in the Settings button at the top of Stencyl. You can find changes to the current Stencyl version in the "News" section... I hate how that section is now hidden :(
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Howdid I notsee this when Iwaslooking at your first series? I guess that was a while ago, though. Awesome tutorials, BTW.
Thanks. These indeed did come later; they were doubly harder than the first set to make: 1. I had very little experience making platformers before this set (only made one small, buggy maze platformer that wasn't even released) and 2. This series uses a lot of generic programming techniques that are trickier to use (and thus explain), but once understood, help immensely in programming larger games.
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Another good one. I missed something though, my player keeps falling through my tile, and I'm not sure if it is the programming or the frame I'm using. Was a fun afternoon of your tutorials though.
For some reason, sometimes when people create tiles, they default to no collision. Head into your tile set and click on each tile to make sure they have a square (or similar) collision.
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TIP: Whenever you add the music Abigayl, you should add a mute button for those who don't want to listen to the music are satisfied.
Weird... are you saying you created a game but can't find it anymore? With 2.x, the saving is automatic, so that would be a rather unique issue. Check your games folder (Top Menu Bar -> Debug -> View Games Folder) and see if it is there.
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Please let me know if you ever see a bug, typo, etc. in any of my tutorials. This tutorial has been out for months and I just now learned of (and fixed) a graphical error on slide 34. Thanks.