Create a game from scratch youtube tutorial series ENGLISH

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I'm currently putting together a series of tutorials for beginners to learn from and wanted to start sharing it.
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Hopefully this gets new people interested in 3dgs and become a part of the community

Not bad so far, I'll have to finish watching the posts today.

You can further support your videos and the engine promotion effort with a facebook group page "Game Studio A8 Fans", or such. Not an Q&A like the forum, just promotion and attraction effort.

Thanks Buddy
I'll look into that facebook page. I didnt think to look on facebook for A8 lol...

LOL I know I am studying current promotion in products. Using Facebook, Twitter and any of the live stream sites to engage none users and get user talking about the product is very key these days.

There is a lot of internal marketing here. However almost everyone who is reading this post is already a user of the engine.

I true wish they would rip down that gamestdio.com page and build a new one with better( and more honest) marketing. "World's fast" lol. What to sell this engine use words like "Originality, Independence and Freedom(from royalties)." Marketing buzz like suggesting that Gamestudio is the best place to learn programming before attacking the more complex and beginner unfriendly langues of the Unity and Unreal Engines.

Anyway I'm both hijacking the thread that ranting. Sorry.

Love the Video series.
Mal

I've only been at this for the last 3 days now, so there wont be to much publicity on my tutorial series yet. But yes social media is the best place to start advertising it for sure. Im waiting for some groups to allow me in then I will share my tutorials there too.

I too would like to see a new gamestudio website with all the actual thruthful features and facts about it.

Its all relevant.

Cheers Malice!

DLively@ great to see someone making video tutorials that Acknex does really miss! Keep it up! But I have to say, that I don't really like the way you are writing your code.. It looks oldschool c-script way, which isn't the best way to handle everything with lite-c.

Example of what I mean:
Please, don't teach to write code this way, do it like (key_w - key_s), so it will be more clear and elegant. If you want to, I'll be happy to lend a hand of help you there with coding part! So we could create something like those unity tutorials.

My best wishes and keep it up please!

Sorry, but the way your suggesting to write my code, will not work at all with the way I have it set up. If you watched the tutorials, I set it up that way at first, then changed it to suit the project.

Left you a Pm.

Many more videos added today

nice job! you could make some MapBuilder tutorials too I'm too lazy to do, and the worst part is uploading....

however you could boost somehow the volume, and please avoid to call a boolean-like var variable as OPEN_OR_CLOSED, much better to write isclosed that exactly describes what means state 0 and 1

Good idea. There a few things that I want to add:

- video volume could be a bit louder
- I personally think it is a bad idea to use WED to promote GS3d. WED is outdated & clumsy, and while some diehards here may still use it, I doubt new users will like WED. Better is to either skip map editors as a whole (place ents through script) for now or use e.g. Sivan's editor. Though on the hand I understand its easy to create good looking lightning with blocks and blocks allow bsp building.
- I am not entirely sure about this one, but it looks like the way you create actions results in an alot of duplicated code when different more types of entities (more enemies etc.). Its fine for now, I would suggest to eventually add a tutorial where you make functions that can be used by different types of entities (gravity(), movement(), jump(), scan_for_enemy(), etc.).

keep it up

@DLively - Keep Up the effort. Consider advice and ignore unhelpful criticism. Reach out to the people here in pm's if you want someone to correct any possible errors. (Malice >> NOT IT).




@ALL-OTHERS I'm sure he would read a video-script if you wrote one and pm'd it to him. OR maybe post your videos on the channel.

Oh and forget to add; good job on the already done videos.

@Reconnoiter: Im using WED as a base so people can understand things slowly instead of pushing them right into it. Im not there yet, but i will cover creating a level purly through script. I dont use blocks. EDIT: Except that one tutorial because I was to lazy to create and save a cube as MDL -- and it wasnt relevant to the tutorial -- and I told the viewers NEVER to use blocks too.)

Also the Volume Sounds great on my end.. But thanks for the info. I'll turn it up


Thanks guys
I Also appreciate the crits. Ill take em and leave em

EDIT: Thanks Sivan! I'll consider doing that in the future when I am looking for a project

@Malice: LoL

Hey DLively,

nice tutorial so far!

It seems that few videos exist for A8...not sure why...when this is cool engine

Can you cover enemy AI? And levels loading and saving?

And creating models in Med ?

Do you take PayPal donations ? :-)

@sitrep: Thanks! I agree. there just aren't enough videos. So I shall fill the quota.
Yes, I will be implementing all your requested features as time goes on I'll likely get to level loading and modeling in MED soon, but AI is a bit further away on my list right now since I'm working on the basics still

I work steady for about 3-4 days straight a week, and then spend time with my two children for most of the rest.

Yes I do accept and appreciate paypal donations of any amount greater than 0

Thanks for taking an interest sitrep!

, oh my bad, I thought since you used wed you would use blocks too.
In that case I can only recommend you to use an other editor since it would give no real disadvantages than .

cheers

I have some further thoughts:

I have watched a lot of UE4 video tutorials recently, I found it practical to spend shorter time with typing, if you have a pre-made project, you can copy-paste lines, then you have more time to explain what it does, and users can stop the video to type it. Moreover, you can save and publish the project after each video, to help lazy users

If you plan to make a little outdoor game, level design is easy with MapBuilder (within or out of the editor code), lighting and shadows are automatically set for each engine edition, but action assignment to entities is currently not supported. I planned to make a player editor, but it would be a large task (I wanted to integrate the navmesh pathfinder of WJBender to easily create enemy AI). And I have never really needed it for my RTS game...

sry for going a bit offtopic here DLively;

, easy but not perfect solution; use a skill for giving entities an ID number / action number that people can use in their script to give the enitity a new function. It's not the nicest solution but it does give the advantage of having parameters for entity 'actions'. And having an ID skill is always helpfull so the skill does not go to waste .

example:

I'll eventually touch on the more complex issues of game development such as editors and the like.
If you recall to when you knew nothing of this program -- anything but what the program 'did' in front of you was confusing until the basics were understood.. then WED became unnecessary...

I'm not worried about things being perfect. People who do this tutorial from scratch only spend 5+ hours learning and then have enough to start making a whole fps - If they study it a few times they should have no problem understanding what I'm doing. I usually try to explain what i'm doing as I do it, even as I type. If people need to stop the video and type while I'm typing so be it. I dont mind following tutorials like that and im a fussy guy.

I don't plan on providing the source code until the tutorial is complete. people who donate 5.00 or more during or after the tutorial will receive the full version of the tutorial complete in its entirety, sent to the email I receive the donation from

As much as I'd like to just give away ALL my knowledge and resources for free, I can't.
This is, in a sense a simplified version of my worked up versions, and customs that I no longer use because I've improved upon them, and dont want them to just collect dust - So I might as well do something productive with them (The player movement and camera are pretty updated, they just lack a few extra things I didnt add in)

@DLively, true. Though the only reason I mentioned using something else than WED was so you get more people interested in your work (so to help you, I personally have no gain in this).
WED nowadays is not the most inviting tool to newcomers. I know it would scare me off .

@reconnoiter: I know your trying to help
People who know nothing of game design wouldnt know any better.
and if they really want to learn how to make a game, after seeing the most current tutorial theyll tough through it we all did.

Hey Lively

trying 2 send u Paypal

the link is off?

Hi Sitrep. My apologies - The link can be found on my website Click Here To Change Websites

Hey Lively,

Roger that.

That link worked. Looking forward to more tutorials!

Thanks!

@sitrep Thank you kindly PM Sent!
More tutorials have been added this morning!

Pointless to say i like it but i do keep it up

lol Thanks Realspawn

I'm a little tied up with everything I have to get done but I will get back to these soon!