Stencyl Essentials

Chapter 9. Adding HUD Elements

In this chapter, we'll add some polish to our game prototype by integrating some animated Head-up Display (HUD) elements, and we will make some modest improvements to the gameplay in the process. We will learn how to:

• Create a layer of HUD actors that sit statically on top of our game levels
• Animate the Dynamic Cursor
• Represent the game data dynamically through HUD elements
• Communicate between multiple actors within a scene using actor attributes
• Make an actor follow the position of the mouse cursor
• Switch between scene and screen space, using anchoring

The dynamic cursor

One of the most important HUD elements in our game prototype is the dynamic cursor. Put simply, this is a special-purpose actor that we will create to ...