Idea for New Tut! Your opinions?

[Fargate]

Think I should make a tutorial out of this? I made a beta platformer, something simple enough for a tutorial. But to beat the level you have trigger stuff. So you don't brainlessly jump to where you have to go. In my example mario has to jump from platform to platform until he reaches the ? box. He has to jump and hit it. This triggers the exit. He then has to jump to the exit platform.Think I should make a tutorial out of this kind of thing?It's something simple enough but trap enemies and health could all be added on eventually. I attached an image to show you what I'm talking about.

[Draximillian]

Awesome idea, i'd love to start learnin some more actioscript but am fankly a lazy bastard so won't read through reams of written turorials, unless i'm really interested, with this sort of tutorial i don't have to do much except sit back and watch :)

[luckoftheirish]

yeah ive never seen a good platformer tutorial anywhere on the web, im sure it'll help some people out, maybe put a little piece in there about shooting too (with a character like alien hominoid). anyways good luck

[Sulphent]

At 2/1/04 12:25 PM, luckoftheirish wrote: yeah ive never seen a good platformer tutorial anywhere on the web

You can say that again :P

[Fargate]

Ok so once I've finished working out the bugs and whatnot I'll start writing one for that type of thing. Should I add enemies + health + shooting or save that for a different one. Some people probably won't want to learn all at once...

[Everblayde]

Great Idea!

I'd say make it all in the same tutorial, enemies, health bar, enemies health, ect. How long do you think this would take for it to be complete?

[luckoftheirish]

id put it all into one fargate, and let the people learn it all at once, if you cant comprehend four concepts at once, thats just not right

[Sulphent]

If you do put a health thing and other things, theb, put it as a menu instead of all in one go, or else it can be frustrating and it will help your rate ;)

[Fargate]

Well if I did all that at like a n00bish level of explanation...let's just say awhile...So I guess I will put it all in one and use the menu idea as well...the only thing is some people might get lost if they do stuff in bits and pieces or backwards, etc..It's easier to understand in a logical order...Right now I've created all but enemy health and shooting in the engine that I'm going to base the tut off. Btw...I'll see once I've finished everything how I'll specifically explain stuff.

[Sulphent]

Number and place then in a list accordingly :P :)

[Fargate]

At 2/1/04 04:45 PM, Sulphent wrote: Number and place then in a list accordingly :P :)

Lol...yeah I realize I can do that...I just meant it's kinda easy to build on stuff you have like a puzzle..btw I guess I will use the menu...but before I even go there I need to finish the engine ;).

[FlashKid]

Sounds great! I would love to know how to do that kind of thing!
( new sig! )

[Fargate]

Lol here's an update of mario kicking some ass with his turtle shells...platforms are still a little buggy (i.e. he flots like 3mm of some of them and has a 20% chance of falling through others at the moment)....So I have some tweaking to do! :p

[ToD-WoJ]

i wanna play!! ''D looks like fun

[Sulphent]

Very nice good job :D

[Fargate]

Lol...well maybe I'll upload a beta to my website for you guys so you can see what it's like.

[Sulphent]

Hmm maybe, then we could say what would be better, and you'll get a good rate :P