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Stencyl has power under the hood, but you have to open it up to find it. With those programs, you still feel like you’re learning something that could potentially carry you into a career in game development. Construct and GameMaker do a better job incorporating elements of optional, advanced coding into their visual language workflows. However, I felt like my overall game development education slightly suffered as a result.

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Compare that to Fuze4, which offers no alternative to its intimidating text-based code editor. Elementary school teachers seem like an ideal audience, and at least they have access to friendlier pricing options. On one hand, de-emphasizing code makes Stencyl very accessible. In fact, if you download enough sample games and free, premade behaviors (from the StencylForge community marketplace or built into Stencyl itself) you may not even need to use Design Mode’s visual language that often. But you can easily make a functioning game in Stencyl without typing a single line of code. Stencyl’s coding language is based on Haxe, and implementing it is simply a matter of opening the behavior editor.

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If you want more control over your game, and know how to code, you can opt for Code Mode. Behaviors tell the player character how to jump, tell enemies to die when they get stomped on, and tell the game to increase your score when you collide with a coin. You use these blocks to create and attach behaviors to your actors and scenes. The language breaks down syntax into easily understandable blocks, with if/then statements connecting various inputs and events with specific outcomes. Stencyl uses a visual programming language called Design Mode based on MIT’s Scratch. You need to create the logic that makes the game go. Of course, game development demands more than just arranging static objects. It helps you wrap your head around all the pieces you need to consider when making a game. The program has a WYSIWYG quality that makes game design feel like editing photos or videos. The interface splits everything out into tabs you hop between. I only ran into trouble trying to add background music, the theme to No Time To Die, because I hadn’t converted it to the proper 44.1KHz frequency. Create level backgrounds out of tilesets and adjust physics for your scene. In no time at all, you’ll go through every step of creating a short platformer stage. Stencyl does a great job guiding you through your first project. Some developers have published Stencyl games on consoles, but it appears they used their own tools or worked with outside porting partners to achieve this, rather than directly using Stencyl itself. At $1,500 per year, that’s by far the priciest plan I’ve seen, but it may be worth it for getting your game in front of the largest possible audience. GameMaker’s Ultimate subscription includes licenses for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Construct at least lets you publish on Xbox One. Unfortunately, no subscription includes publishing on home consoles. Teachers looking to bring Stencyl to the classroom can expect various discounts. These prices apply to individual creators. You can also add in-app purchases, in case you want to stop spending money on free-to-play games and start making money, instead. On mobile platforms, you can add touch controls to your games.

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The Studio subscription adds the ability to publish on Android and iOS. You also gain access to private community forums. Both subscriptions let you publish to desktops, which includes selling your games on PC gaming marketplaces like Steam. An individual Indie license costs $99 per year and a Studio license costs $199 per year. To fully take advantage of Stencyl, though, you need to pay.

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Like interactive fiction editor Twine, you can also publish Stencyl games to the web for free as long as you don’t mind players seeing Stencyl’s logo every time they start.

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Unlike Construct, Stencyl gives you the full version with no limits on how complex you can make your game. You can download Stencyl for your Windows, Mac, or Linux machine for free. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Super Mario Maker 2 (for Nintendo Switch) Review Price and Platforms

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