Stencyl October Update
Another update from the Stencyl team- this time about game publishing as opposed to their summer update about their game editing tool.
There will be two websites, one for the game players and one for the game developers. Their goal for Stencyl.com, the game-player site, is this: “Stencyl.com, which can best be seen as a ‘YouTube for games’, will allow you to showcase your games to the world.” Sounds a bit like YoYo, no? They’re providing more for you when you publish it there:
Stencyl.com will allow you, as a developer, to take advantage of our web services: an achievements system, where players can earn badges and other goodies; leaderboards and high scores, where players can compete; comments, where users can give you advice and feedback on improving your game. This is just the tip of the iceberg — there are plenty of other game-centric features that we’ll reveal in future updates.
The website for developers is StencylForge. Jon calls it a “marketplace for resources.” Supposedly it’ll be integrated into StencylWorks as well as providing a web interface. You’ll also be able to create teams and upload all your game’s resources and use a private team forum.
As for when all this will happen, still no solid dates, but the team is “doing [their] best to make it amazing.”
[...] there has been no sign of progress on this front at YoYo, the Stencyl development team have announced that players will be able to “earn badges and other goodies” as well as making use of [...]
The stencyl team is late, actiongamemaker from Enterbrain is out and its gaining ground. It works on Windows, Xbox Live and online with Flash. It also has the package mentality like Stencyl.
Nobody wants the community gaming crap.
Gamedevs just want to make a game for other people to play on their PCs.
There is no service from Yoyo to have online highscores on their site. But no one gives a damn about having more features over Yoyogames. If I want a highscore list I will have it on my site.