What is Stencyl?
Stencyl is presented as a quick and easy way to make games for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and HTML5. It is a toolset designed to accelerates the user's workflow and then gets out of the way. Stencyl currently supports game development for:
Stencyl's drag-and-drop gameplay designer pays homage to the MIT Scratch project. Stencyl extends Scratch's simple block-snapping interface with new functionality and hundreds of ready-to-use blocks. Power users can create and share their own blocks, extend the engine through code, import libraries and write their own custom classes that interact seamlessly with block-based Behaviors.
For those used to graphics editors like Photoshop, the Stencyl Scene Designer may feel familiar, with features such as a selection tool, zooming, grid-snapping and flood fill, that help to craft complex worlds out of Actors, Tiles and Terrain.
For monetization, Stencyl games have appears on the App Store, Google Play, and Steam. Games can also embed ads, or games that adopt a freemium model can use in-game purchases to provide unlockable levels & content while offering part (or all) of the game for free, boosting its reach to more players.
With Stencyl's free app games can be published to the web. With commercial editions Stencyl games can be published to desktop, or mobile devices.
- iOS (iPhone/iPad)
- Android
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- HTML5
Stencyl's drag-and-drop gameplay designer pays homage to the MIT Scratch project. Stencyl extends Scratch's simple block-snapping interface with new functionality and hundreds of ready-to-use blocks. Power users can create and share their own blocks, extend the engine through code, import libraries and write their own custom classes that interact seamlessly with block-based Behaviors.
For those used to graphics editors like Photoshop, the Stencyl Scene Designer may feel familiar, with features such as a selection tool, zooming, grid-snapping and flood fill, that help to craft complex worlds out of Actors, Tiles and Terrain.
For monetization, Stencyl games have appears on the App Store, Google Play, and Steam. Games can also embed ads, or games that adopt a freemium model can use in-game purchases to provide unlockable levels & content while offering part (or all) of the game for free, boosting its reach to more players.
With Stencyl's free app games can be published to the web. With commercial editions Stencyl games can be published to desktop, or mobile devices.
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Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-Premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
FAQs
What is Stencyl?
Stencyl, from the company of the same name in Cupertino, is software providing a fast way to create a game for users of all skill levels, from the programming-phobic to the time-constrained professional. With Stencyl, over 125,000 registered developers have published 12,000 games to the web, iOS, Android, Windows and Mac.
How much does Stencyl cost?
Stencyl starts at $99.