Stencyl

While there are numerous people out there who have interesting ideas for games brewing in their minds, one of the impediments that they face is the lack of programming knowledge.

Stencyl is an application specially designed to lend a hand to anyone who is not familiar with coding, but that has a genuine interest in developing games for desktop or mobile.

Following a quick and uneventful setup, you are welcomed by an intuitive, well-organized and appealing interface that is easy to navigate. The main window is designed as a dashboard that displays the list of games that you are working on and also provides quick links to the resources that you commonly employ for this purpose.

In case you lack any previous game development experience, then you will be happy to learn that the app provides you with a 30 minutes crash course on the topic and hence, you can learn the basics before getting started. Speaking of getting help, the tool comes with an extensive tutorial and an active community that can lend a hand with obtaining the right assets.

Functionality-wise, you should know the program is not very different from an advanced graphic editor. In other words, if you used tools such as zooming, grid-snapping, flood fill, etc. then you are unlikely to encounter any troubles with building actors, scenes and the behaviors.

In spite of the fact that you do not need programming knowhow to operate the application, the application enables you to write code if you want. Consequentially, advanced users can create custom blocks and assets, extend the engine via code or build the desired classes, just to name a few possibilities.

Regardless of whether you want to test your skills in developing games for other platforms or you want to transform an idea into reality, Stencyl can provide you with a straightforward, versatile and user-friendly environment for pursuing your game development ambitions.