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By default, blocks in the Draw event use actor-relative coordinates.

Switching frames is cheap, but animations can't be paused, so I ended up using a custom Draw event to switch the colors of the map squares.

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Refer to the Box2D manual to learn more about static, dynamic, and kinematic bodies, sensors, and continuous collision detection.

Pencyl prefers the x86 OpenJDK 6 JRE over the x86_64 version.

If the menus are behaving strangely on Linux, try using the OpenJDK 6 JRE.

If the Scene contains only one instance of another actor, you can access attributes from behaviors of that actor, in a different actor using the Scene > Actor blocks ( as mentioned in the comments).

You can access attributes from other behaviors of the same actor using the Behavior > Attributes blocks ( more details) or by wrapping them in Custom blocks (roll your own getters and setters).

So attributes and events always live in a Behavior.

Keep in mind that the Events tab for an Actor places blocks and attributes into a Behavior called something like ActorEvents0.

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Arrow keys produce extra erroneous key presses in Flash plug-in on Windows 7 Firefox (32 bit).Copy an event, close the game, open a different game, and paste the event. Tip: copy–paste works, but only for one event at a time. It's difficult to share block scripts among projects without uploading to StencylForge.Stencyl only opens and saves projects in the automatically managed /AppData/Roaming/Stencyl/stencylworks/games/ directory.

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I couldn't get Export and Import to work on Linux, but it's easy enough to zip the game directory and change the extension to.

Eats up more and more memory after each export on Linux.

The animation can be empty, but it's less confusing if the animation contains images. Tip: each Actor needs to have at least one Animation to enable collisions.

Configuring Box2D collisions was trickier than in Construct 2 or GameMaker: Studio.

Box2D performance seems lower in Stencyl's Flash exports compared to the exports from Construct 2 or GameMaker: Studio.

Have to create a brand new Custom block to change the number or names of arguments.Long lines of blocks are unpleasant to move, requiring careful clicking and dragging (being able to fold or collapse stacks of blocks might help).Difficult to change inner items in deeply nested blocks.Issues with the Scratch-style programming blocks:.More blocks than Scratch, permitting more complicated solutions.Opening and closing tabs in the editor feels a little sluggish.Game compile time is slower than the other integrated tools.Includes just enough (about 9.5 MB) of Flex to compile games to SWFs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.Offers ActionScript 3.0 as an alternative to the visual blocks, but maybe straight Flixel or Flashpunk is just as good?.Custom blocks (though Scratch 2.0 beta has something similar).Being able to divide scripts among Events, and package Events within Behaviors makes larger programs more manageable.The block categories are further organized into sub-tabs.More blocks, allowing a wider variety of solutions.Advantages compared to Scratch's visual block programming:.

The exported SWF works fine under Ubuntu or the stand-alone Flash Player 10.3, but in recent versions of the Flash plug-in for Windows 7 Firefox, the arrow keys send lots of extra stuck-key key presses. Stencyl does offer textual (ActionScript 3.0) scripting, but I haven't yet compared that to libraries like Flixel or Flashpunk. Even so I still prefer textual programming. Stencyl's drag-and-drop programming has a decent number of features, and the free version doesn't restrict complexity like GameMaker: Studio or Construct 2.

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Stencyl expands on the snapping block programming style of Scratch with a wider range of block types plus two ways to package complicated block stacks into reusable pieces ( Behaviors and Custom blocks). Import Game doesn't work, try unzipping the file into the stencylworks/games directory)

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