After I fail my math test on Wednesday I have a few days with no work !
(me and math don't have a very good relationship with each other...)
So, to make use of that time I plan to write 1 guide/tutorial on something scratch users want to be able to do. I will try to explain things as simply as possible and will assume you know nothing except how to use the blocks.
I was considering doing one of the following
-scrolling platformer game tut
-4 sprite 4-way scrolling guide
-RPG battle engine guide
Any thoughts/suggestions
PS: This is for the wiki
Last edited by archmage (2010-06-22 23:38:34)
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Not really into the mesh thing since you need to unlock it and run hammichi and stuff.
I would rather make a guide that most people would find handy.
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I think the scrolling platformer tutorial might be handy - many users want to learn about that stuff.
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Personally, I'd ask you to do a RPG battle guide - but that's just me XD
You Should do whatever subject you think you can explain in most detal but in the most simplicity.
~Buggy
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Battle engine. O.o
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More advanced platformer AI (not one that randomly stalks you)!
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rpg battle engine
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Maybe...
Make A tutorial on how to scroll...then include an enemy that will try to attack you and involve a battle engine tutorial?!
Yay!!!
~Buggy
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I was thinking I would maybe first start out with things like scrolling grids and battle engines and then later write on how to combine them. So when it says "add a scrolling grid here" it will refer you to previously written tutorials.
But regardless of what I do in the future, I want the first one to be doable by anyone who puts the effort in to try to understand how to make things work. It really baffles me when I try to explain things as clearly as possible and people still don't seem to understand anything
(like here -> http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=38371)
But in cases like that I am going to assume that people didn't even bother to understand because they were hoping for an "easier" way or something.
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You don't get along with Maths yet you know everything (ok, not everything. Right?) about programming o__o;?
Anyway, I'd say either RPG or Scrolling since most users seem to want to learn that stuff .
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archmage wrote:
It really baffles me when I try to explain things as clearly as possible and people still don't seem to understand anything
(like here -> http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=38371)
But in cases like that I am going to assume that people didn't even bother to understand because they were hoping for an "easier" way or something.
You have to remember that not all Scratchers are that old or fully experienced with the program though .
Even I have to re-read some of your posts once or twice sometimes XD but usually when trying to help a Scratcher, I take a quick look at their projects and posts to make a guess at how much they already know.
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06dknibbs wrote:
You don't get along with Maths yet you know everything (ok, not everything. Right?) about programming o__o;?
I've always said that I am just a novice programmer but people usually just ignore me when I say this. The average user at real programming forums are better than me. Its just that scratch is so limited that I can do most of what is possible and that most scratch users have 0 prior coding experience so I seem very good in comparison.
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Set Archmage Truth to 1.
Now let's see how modest he is XD.
Archmage, your a good programmer, and I'm guessing you do many other types as well? And If not...*?!!!!???
Anywayz...
A lot of people seem to want a basic battle system, but I think you should make a scroller, as that will teach a lot of people many basic skills. Also, you could just copy and paste what you put in my topic, because so far i've managed to figure it out from that.
~Buggy
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I've done a few other languages including pascal, java, php&sql, html, &AS2/3.
Most of my coding experience is from Actionscript though.
I wrote a simple tutorial for scrolling years ago and it was stikkied until the great sticky cleanup. Since then there have been a spike of scrolling tutorials that all repeat what I wrote. I don't really like how people on scratch emphasize scrolling as an essential technical skill because its just common sense for the most part. Most technical programming concepts ie Inverse Kinematics, 3D, physics, perform too poorly in scratch to be made into anything useful.
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I suggest that you do the Scrolling Platformer. Because (assuming people will learn further than JUST what you say) those are the games people want for the front page.
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I say the RPG battle engine, because that seams to be a popular subject for Scratch Games nowadays.
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I Think the RPG battle engine because there is less of those.
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