Stencyl Visual Programming Dr. Gary Liu

Sections: 1: Game Development Concepts 2: Stencyl and Game Mechanics 3: Stencyl Story and Aesthetics 4: stencyl Publishing and Money Talk

What Is Game Development? Game Development Game Design Programming Music Animation Scripting

Game Components Mechanics Story Aesthetics Technology What Does A Game Have? Shell identified four basic elements of most games, including mechanics, story, aesthetics, and technology. Mechanics cover the goal, space, rule, and actions of all objects inside a game. Story and aesthetics add entertainment value, the look and feel of a real world, and interactivity.

Game Components Formal Dramatic System Dynamics What Does A Game Have? Fullerton et al. recommended that games include formal elements, dramatic elements, and system dynamics. Formal elements include players, objectives, procedures, rules, resources, conflict, boundary, and outcome. Dramatic elements include challenge, play, premise, character, story, and world building. System dynamics include properties, behaviors, and interactions of objects within a game and the interactive experiences between players and the game.

Instructional Strategy Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Game Mechanics Story Aesthetics

What Is Game Development?

Game Mechanics: Target 1. Create a sprite and add costumes 2. Program the animation of the sprite 3. Create the random movement

Game Mechanics: Shoot 1. Create the sprite to shoot out. 2. Give the original location of the sprite. 3. Program the sprite to shoot toward the mouse pointer.

Game Mechanics: Aim 1. Draw an aim 2. Make it go with the mouse. 3. Give order to shoot

Story: Premise and Background

Create a sprite as the premise and program it to appear and disappear at the beginning.

Aesthetics: Sound and Music

Aesthetics: Drama

Aesthetics: Score Use Math to record and track hits and use logics to determine game phases.

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Section 2: An Indie Game

Why Stencyl?

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A Platform Game  A platform game (or platformer) is a video game which involves guiding an avatar to jump between suspended platforms, over obstacles, or both to advance the game.video gameavatar

Mechanics: Platform

Mechanics: Main Actor

Mechanics: Collision

Mechanics: Collision of tile

Mechanics: collision of tile

Mechanics: Testing

Mechanics: Enemy/Reward

Mechanics: Enemy Group

Mechanics: rewards

Test Mechanics

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Section 3: Story and Aesthetics

Story: Background

Aesthetics: A List 1. Kill the Collided Actors: how to pick up fruitsKill the Collided Actors 2. Random Drop: something falls from skyRandom Drop 3. Disappear: dead actor vanishesDisappear 4. Relocate: re-positioning the actor if got hitRelocate 5. Shake Screen: special effect to shake the screenShake Screen 6. Sound Effect: jumping and hitting soundsSound Effect 7. Sound Track: music of the entire gameSound Track

Kill the Collided

Kill The Collided

Aesthetics: Random Drop

Random Drop

Disappear

Relocation

Shake Screen

Sound Effect

Sound Effects  Import OGG (for desktop games) or MP3 (for all games) sound files

Sound Effects  Use channels to have more control (32 channels)  Sound effects are easy to understand

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Section 4: Polish & Publish

Aesthetic: Duplicate Scene

New Level: change scene size, add tiles, add actors

New Levels

New Level

Aesthetic: Pause

Pause

Game Over

Alternative Game Over

Publish

Money Talk

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