![]() ![]() James agrees that it's a great tool for hobby designers, but like Maragna is unconvinced by its usefulness to those who already know their way around Flash. "It's a great visual way to create a game and see results quickly," says McBurney.īut despite the relative ease, she believes you still need a certain amount of technical know how: "If someone expects to jump straight into a game, having done no programming before, they may be quickly disheartened." With a helpful community, however, she insists most problems can be quickly overcome by the determined: "The makers themselves and the users always respond quickly to forum queries." Having never worked with ActionScript, she has just completed her second title using StencylWorks - Contract, a card game - with art from renowned Flash artist Rob James ( Cyclomaniacs, Match Day of the Dead). As for those who know their way around Adobe Flash, Flash Kit or Flash Develop, Maragna believes it to be of limited use: "It's slightly quicker than ActionScript 3, but you lose the fine control, and if you've made a number of games already, you likely have a body of code to cover most game design eventualities."Ĭathy McBurney is more upbeat about the software. He sees the most likely users as being school age coders and artists who have never put fingers to coding keyboard. ![]()
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