I, as far as my individual efforts are concerned, am off gamedev. Call if a New Year’s resolution, if you will, though I don’t have much truck with that kinda thing. I have 7 months left for my finals and it’s time to pull through with my studies. In 7 months – freedom; to pursue my degree, to work out nonstop at the gym, to accept the offers from my friend’s COD4 clan and be a competitive gamer, and to make games.
Goodbye, Abuse-style thingy –
Wait, it’s only 7 months. And trust me: Down Under is going to be BIG. Not Abuse-big, but big in platformer sense; think Abuse meets Knytt meets …. Karoshi. Who knows how good the game will be? I don’t, but I’m gonna do my level best.
Meanwhile, the others @ 4250 [yes, the “silent” others] have started up a new project with my assistance; a virtual pet. I’m not going into details, but *ahem* this isn’t your average “pet”.
We decided to go Flash – for monetization purposes, but mostly because Flash, as a way of building games, offers us far more coverage than Game Maker. There’s so many Flash games sites out there; tiny compared to the number of people who distribute freeware .exes. After ambling about a bit, we cracked open StencylWorks. And AM I impressed! It’s not all accessible on the first go to someone who’s used to GM – but one hour with StencylWorks, and you’re converted. It’s yet another “Make games without coding platform” [we need to speed] but this one’s done right. You slot in logic loops ad actions like pieces from a puzzle. I’m enthralled; building the game is like playing tetris. Wow.
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Yudhanjaya 
Have you any idea how to begin a game away very easily?
Not really. I work on multiple small ideas at the same time, then keep merging them into bigger projects.
To Anyone interested in using STENCYL for IOS game development, Please BEWARE!
Stencyl is a GREAT for making FLASH games, But trying to make an IOS game will most likely result in it crashing!
I had all the requirements for making an IOS game with STENCYL but the game kept crashing no matter what!
I also did not use any special code it was all using stencyl! NOW here is where things get very shady! No matter how much help you ask they will just give you the run around! In fact the majority of APPS the have been made with stencyl actually belong to the MODs at stencyl.com or they are no longer on the store, or they have been removed do too crashing!
Also many of Moderators at stencyl.com will ask you all sorts of question to try and make you feel like they are helping you, but after awhile they simply stop answering. Infact many of the stencyl forums are filled with un answered questions!
This one mod there was trying to help me for days, Until i finally looked up all of his older post only to see he was helping a bunch of other people who had IOS bugs only to tell them at the end, well sorry i couldn’t help you, I dont actually know anything about making IOS games!!
THAN why is this guy going around asking you questions pretending he knows and is trying to help ? Its all just a big a run around. They are basically giving people the run around to keep them distracted from the fact that they falsely advertising this software that supposedly can make IOS games!
If you want to make FLASH games stency is great, but do BEWARE against using stencyl for IOS the MODs and people working at stencyl have no problem LYING to their customers! I am currently considering a law Suite against them for false advertising!
BEWARE very shady company!!!