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[deadeye]

Also, some sort of tutorial that makes Construct not so confusing, please.

I'm currently rewriting my Platform School tutorials from the ground up.  I've held off for a long time because new features or changes in new beta builds of Construct meant my tuts constantly had obsolete or incorrect info, and I was constantly rewriting them.  But Construct is almost to v1.0 now, and the devs have informed me that there will be no more game-breaking feature changes until then (hopefully... fingers crossed )

So if you can wait a little while I'll have them all rewritten for the newest build (and new lessons too).  Shouldn't be too long, maybe a week or so until the first lessons are out.

I'm hoping to get a couple of video tuts done as well, for things like importing sprites, or setting up collision masks.

[xerus]

I would like to know if anyone can point me to a good tutorial for a 2D segmented animation system (like the way the characters are done in Aquaria)

Try searching for 2d bone animation.  You  might find something.  (though I searched before and didn't...)

[Rock]

I request the subtitle here on this Subfor be changed

   Tutorials
Game-making totoreals and workshops! LEVEL UP.   

[pgil]

But old inside jokes are hilarious! Especially when nobody gets them.

[gangsta59]

need a game maker language tutorial badly

[Aoiichi]

There's loads.

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=3142.0
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=8432.0

[jotapeh]

But old inside jokes are hilarious! Especially when nobody gets them.

Requesting a tutorial on how to get this inside joke 

[Mir@k]

Hey guys, bit of a game maker question (should i make this a thread instead of posting this here?) anyway...

If you've played/know what The Lost Vikings is, please help.

So, i hate to be extremely blunt, but "how do i do this?".
Let's say i have three different character objects, one runs fast/can jump, the other's the only one that can attack but is slower and can't jump, the third one has a shield that blocks all damage.

You can't use all three, you should be able to control just one, the others just stay there and are vulnerable to enemies/hazards, the camera follows the "active" character, and then you press a key and you "switch" to another character, the camera pans to the other character and the one you were using before just stays there and is still vulnerable, like the others.

Is there an easy way i can do this?
Like, having three different health bars, a gui that follows the view, etc... I know this must be around here somewhere, but the search function kinda sucks.
Please don't get mad, help instead!

[Kadoba]

@ Mir@k

There are lots of different ways you can do this. But it really depends on if you use drag and drop or if you know some GML.

- The way I would handle the character switching is have a controller object keep track of which character object is active. The character objects would each have their own control code that executes every step. This control code would check the controller to see if they are active and if not then the code is exited.

- The variables view_xview and view_yview are always the value of the pixel of the top-left corner of the screen relative to the room. So you can use them align GUI elements. For example, if you wanted to draw some text at (50,50) relative to the screen you would write in the draw event:

draw_text(view_xview + 50, view_yview + 50, "Some Text");

- As for the camera, there's already one built in that will follow an object that you can designate by going into the room->view options. All you have to do is make it follow an camera object that sets its own location to the active character every step.

[KennEH!]

I'm not sure if this qualifies, but I'm really looking for a tutorial on creating characters. More specifically? Everything. From the design of looks, down to personality.

[jotapeh]

^ That's a neat one

I did a search in these forums and I could not find a "Getting Started with XNA" sort of tutorial. Does anyone feel an itch to write it?? I would enjoy that.

[salade]

I'm not sure if this qualifies, but I'm really looking for a tutorial on creating characters. More specifically? Everything. From the design of looks, down to personality.

Not really a tutorial, but this covers character design from time to time.

[baconman]

Java/Browser game development (basic tools/engines and resources, listing of most frequently used-or-confused commands/syntaxes thereof), plz?

[Jack Gleeson]

I did a search in these forums and I could not find a "Getting Started with XNA" sort of tutorial. Does anyone feel an itch to write it?? I would enjoy that.

I might do this one, it's been a while since I last played around with XNA though, so it'd take a while for me to get back into it anyway. Space Invaders in XNA maybe?

[DeadPixel]

^ That's a neat one

I did a search in these forums and I could not find a "Getting Started with XNA" sort of tutorial. Does anyone feel an itch to write it?? I would enjoy that.

Is there anything wrong with the many samples available on the CCO site?  I believe there's even an 'alien game' starter tutorial.