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[Detailed RPG Tutorial]

Another "tutorial" on how to copy and paste?

So you just learnt how to do it, in other words, you're level of experiance with AS is just more than the people you're trying to teach. That makes you a bad teacher.

I've seen this a million times, badly made, rushed tutorials by mediocre programmers who can't think what to make. Copying and pasting code samples with no explanation does not help people at all, they won't be able to adapt it in any way, or even understand why what they see is happening. It's like passing off instructions for flat pack shelves as a tutorial on carpentry.

On top of that, your code is messy, simplistic and impractical. Do you really believe someone could make an RPG when if they had to add a crapload of code for every /wall/? Didn't think so.

As for the presentation, the whole keyboard thing was a bad idea. You end up scrolling through 4 pages at a time and having to go back. Use buttons like everyone else or, failing that, a master of AS like you should be able to add a delay in detecting the keypresses no?

In conclusion, try and think of a good use for this code you've picked up rather than passing it on to equally inept people. Failing that, write tutorials in HTML, flash is a terrible medium for stuff like this. And make them actually helpful.

Hoeloe responds:

Hello? "with no explanation" THERE IS AN EXPLANATION! Either next to the code or in the code itself u idiot!only people as stupid as you cant notice it

[Dynasty Warriors Minigame]

ROTK is Chinese

ROTK is set in ancient CHINA. DW was based on ROTK. This was based on DW.

BUUUT... you said the voices are Japanese? Why exactly?

Otherwise, okay game. Impressive actionscript and image minipulation, but spot-the-differences aren't the funnest of games. Having said that, this was pretty tough.

Insp-Chin responds:

ROTK is from China, they're chinese but the Dynasty Warriors is created by Japanese so I just follow the voice on the voice actors in Dynasty Warriors (Sangoku Musou) by Koei...

I planned to make the chinese voice but it seemed a bit weird and if I used the subtitle on chinese too it will be more weird, but no worries, this is the first time I tried on Japanese cause I never spoke on it...

And this time, I got a help from my friends who know Japanese, so we could learn a little about this translation, by the way thank you for saying it impressive :)

imz, thanks really! :D

[Shooting Tutorial 1.2]

Overall Pointless

Good points: it was original, that's about it.

Bad points: The basic principle is easy and doesn't need a tutorial. Half of the actionscript is pretty iffy (an example: a cursor works much faster if you just set the X and Y position of the cursor MC every frame rather than using startDrag). The graphics were ugly and everything was very cluttered, it was written badly and it doesn't teach you anything.

Very poor.

Smoke-Tower responds:

eh who cares what you think :)

[Throw It! (KB Game)]

ANOTHER Nanaca crash clone?

Jeez, throwing something for a long time doesn't exactly constitute a 'genre'. All you're doing is ripping off Nanaca crash like everyone else. If you insist on being so unoriginal, at least try and improve on the original.

FLiXD responds:

I have never seen or played Nanaca crash.

[Flash Action Script Tut]

Not quite

Getting people to copy and paste code is NOT a tutorial. How the hell does that "tutor" anyone?

Vance responds:

I'm lazy?

[HTML V1]

Terrible

Although it was pretty well done, the content was frankly awful.

Keep in mind this is coming from a professional web designer.
1. You cannot code a forum in HTML
2. ALL websites are in HTML (yes, even newgrounds! :O)
3. You completely missed out the DTD, head and doctype encoding sections of a document, which are required in ALL web documents
4. BBCode, eg. [img] has nothing to do with HTML and does not belong in a HTML tutorial.

Throughtout you describe defunct and non-standard compliant tags. You make no effort to promote semantics or good web design practices, or basic accessibility guidelines.

In short, learn something about the subject before you begin trying to teach others.

threesecondmaniac responds:

Thanks for the tips..

[Anime cell shade Tutorial]

No help whatsoever

Since when did:
1. Draw guide
2. Draw head
3. Draw details
4. Colour in
constitute a "tutorial"? Not a bad idea but dude, as soon as you said "now draw the rest of the details" I knew you'd given up on the idea completely.

Nastashia responds:

awww now sweetie, this is my first tutorial and I said in the tutorial I'll be making other tutorials - eyes and mouths everything and male tutorials.
This is a base tutorial on drawing and cging in flash <3

[Fable Hero Designer v1.5]

Rather pointless.

So I made my character, now what?

It feels like it should be part of a game, espiecially since it had stats.

Oh wait... it is, just, the game isn't included.

The only thing that was decent was the graphics, which weren't amazing.

Jordaan responds:

yeah, ive been getting alot of complaints about the GFX, some work to do there. But this will eventually become a game. v2 will include poses and minigames, v3 will be a minigame, and v4 will be a complete RPG