Game authors and players, please read this thread!

Author Topic: New Tutorials ?  (Read 876 times)  Share 

New Tutorials ?
« on: 03 Aug 2004, 08:50 »
Hi,

   sorry to bring this up again but i ask yesterday about Web Based Tutorials for beginners, i only got one reply (before the thread was locked) which pointed me to a thread that was two years old.
Needless to say most of the links were broken.

So does anybody have any current likns to a good Tutorial ?

95% Of the Links are on graphic design, but theres almost nothing on the Nuts and Bolts of getting things to work.

Please Please Help

 
« Last Edit: 03 Aug 2004, 09:11 by Rainbow Guy »

Iceboty V7000a

  • Local Moderator
  • * KILL* * KILL * * KILL *
    • Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
    •  
Re: New Tutorials ?
« Reply #1 on: 03 Aug 2004, 10:40 »
How about the tutorials in the manual?

Barbarian

  • Mongol General: "Conan, what is best in life?"
    • I can help with AGS tutoring
    •  
    • I can help with backgrounds
    •  
    • I can help with characters
    •  
    • I can help with play testing
    •  
    • I can help with proof reading
    •  
    • I can help with scripting
    •  
    • I can help with story design
    •  
  • Barbarian worked on a game that was nominated for an AGS Award!
Re: New Tutorials ?
« Reply #2 on: 03 Aug 2004, 10:58 »
http://www.agsforums.com/acintro.htm

http://bfaq.terran-x.com/

http://www.sylpher.com/tuts.html

http://www.digitalmindstudio.ch/script.php

   There's a few good links to get you going. And of course the Help Manual that comes built in with AGS is great too, plus, using the search feature on the Forums here is terrific as well. Plus, if you're still stuck on something and you can't find anything about it on the forums, you'll find the community is usually very helpful here.

Best regards.
Conan: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"
Mongol General: "That is good."

Blade of Rage: www.BladeOfRage.com

Re: New Tutorials ?
« Reply #3 on: 17 Feb 2008, 22:09 »
Are there any video tutorials for AGS?

I've looked around but haven't found a single one.

Buckethead

  • No m8...
Re: New Tutorials ?
« Reply #4 on: 17 Feb 2008, 23:55 »
http://www.agsforums.com/acintro.htm

http://bfaq.terran-x.com/

http://www.sylpher.com/tuts.html

http://www.digitalmindstudio.ch/script.php



None of those actually worked lol

Anyway.

Why don't you just have a look at what you want to make and then search on the forums for the awnser. Or look inside the manual. Most tutorials are not helpfull untill you know the basics anyway.


Re: New Tutorials ?
« Reply #5 on: 23 Feb 2008, 17:06 »
I repeat my question:
Are there any video tuts for AGS?

I think it would be a real boost for the community, getting more people to start making their own first games.
It often can feel quite boring and heavy to start learning a new editor by having to  go thru a heap of text.
Let's face it, people are lazy.

Re: New Tutorials ?
« Reply #6 on: 23 Feb 2008, 19:30 »
I repeat my question:
Are there any video tuts for AGS?

I think it would be a real boost for the community, getting more people to start making their own first games.
It often can feel quite boring and heavy to start learning a new editor by having to  go thru a heap of text.
Let's face it, people are lazy.

I was just thinking this today. Perhaps we could have a competition to see who can produce the best video tutorial? AGS feels very inaccessible at first (though it actually isnt) and a video tutorial could introduce more people to it.

Re: New Tutorials ?
« Reply #7 on: 23 Feb 2008, 19:58 »
I'm not too fond of that video-tutorial idea. Well, in the end it's "the more help, the better", but there's a flaw in the logic here: those users that aren't willing or capable of reading a small text on how to import characters and get started aren't really the folk we can use around here (remember, AGS isn't for everybody - it's not a simple click'n'play game-creator and doesn't try to be one). Will those patienceless users ever start reading the manual?

Khris

  • Evil Dark Emperor Death-Kill
    • Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
    •  
    • I can help with play testing
    •  
    • I can help with scripting
    •  
    • I can help with translating
    •  
Re: New Tutorials ?
« Reply #8 on: 24 Feb 2008, 03:34 »
Really well put.
If you can't turn a key, there's no point in learning how to drive :=


Buckethead: check the dates ;)
http://whathaveyoutried.com/

The other day on yahoo answers:
"Can you print colored images with black ink? If so tell me how please Thanx Kimberly"

Re: New Tutorials ?
« Reply #9 on: 24 Feb 2008, 21:27 »
I hardly think that making an easier tutorial would cause an immigration of schmucks to the community.

Rather, I think that it would be helpful in attracting potential talents.
There are many editors and tools there to chose from for people looking to learn the art of game making.
Since they can pick and chose, they naturally look for the best and easiest editors, -so one that would provides some handy video tutorials would definetly have a better chance of gettin picked.

Pumaman

  • Creator of AGS
  • Administrator
  • Mittens TRAITOR
  • I sense danger.
    • Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
    •  
Re: New Tutorials ?
« Reply #10 on: 25 Feb 2008, 20:30 »
Well, there was that German TV show where they were demonstrating how to use AGS, and it crashed live on air ;)

Re: New Tutorials ?
« Reply #11 on: 25 Feb 2008, 20:36 »
Well, there was that German TV show where they were demonstrating how to use AGS, and it crashed live on air ;)


They probably forgot the semi colon.