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i Didnt try those it work can someone tell me
And Awesome

Was really excited to start learning but now I'm stuck in chapter 2 trying to figure out where I'm supposed to be putting this line of code and getting nothing but errors when I hit F5 while your jaunty 8-bit music mocks my inability to perform this simple action.
I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually, but I wouldn't call this tutorial 100% noob friendly.
Still. Hope to see more and be able to understand it. ^^;

Here are the problems I had when going through it: (I played the 'Beginner' version.)

Ch 1:
When told to open PlayState.as, I first went to bin\FlixelGame.swf\Classes\PlayState (assuming the ".as" was just hidden). It might be good to specify that it's supposed to be src\PlayState.as

Ch 2:
I didn't know where to copy the stuff to at first. It might be good to specify this more clearly.

I tried pressing F5 to see if I had done it right, but it obviously didn't work, as I wasn't done yet. Could maybe add something that says that F5 won't do anything yet, as to not confuse people.

Ch 6:
I initially didn't realise that I had to use the {}-brackets in addition to the []-brackets. In fact, I'm still not sure I've done it right, but at least now it works. This is how I did it: (something tells me that the spaces in the beginning of the lines will disappear when I submit...)
if (touching & DOWN)[]
{
if (up)
{
velocity.y = -150;
}
}

Ch 7:
I'm still confused about the []-brackets. Stuff didn't seem to work at all, so now I just removed them completely and it works fine. I think this is probably the biggest flaw in the tutorial, as it just seems flat out wrong. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, and if that's the case, the tutorial could probably be more clear.

Also, it seems like the tutorial is telling me to write "if ('!left && !right)", which doesn't work. "if (!left && !right)" does.

I also can't seem to get the jump animation to work. My guess is that it's because it's playing another animation at the same time ('idle' because I'm not pressing left or right, I'm pressing up). I should probably download the source and check how it's done there, but I can't remember in which chapter it asked me if I wanted to do that (it would be nice to have a link in the description to where I can download it).

Ch 9:
I didn't actually do this one, I just read it.

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And here are some general suggestions:
It would be nice to be able to speed up the text, perhaps by clicking.
An option to mute the music would be very good. It's a good tune, but it gets slightly annoying after listening to it for a long time.

But the main thing about it, what really is what brings the score down to 2.5, is that while this tutorial tells you how to do things, it doesn't really tell you why it works, or what it actually does. This means that while I learn how to make a simple platformer in ActionScript with the help of Flixel, I don't learn how to program in ActionScript with the help of Flixel.

I'm being very critical here, because I don't really see the point in just saying "great game" as long as it isn't 100% perfect. The truth is: I enjoyed it, and I believe I learned something. I won't be able to make my own games right away, but when I decide I want to learn "properly", I'll already have some basic knowledge which will make that slightly easier.

nice game
it rocks.
i enjoyed it.
Food123

This "game" is good and really helpfull . It's a great tutorial for programnoobs like me . Keep up the good work !