[Graham]

I've uploaded the first seven tutorial videos I have made to Youtube.

01 - Introduction http://youtu.be/dzAOo812cU0
02 - download http://youtu.be/xVqhHNzmbqU
03 - explore http://youtu.be/-1b3xzK_SK8
04 - configure http://youtu.be/YxK88erfP1s
05 - joystick http://youtu.be/i-Caq2fwpRY
06 - create Pt 1 http://youtu.be/fDE4LAYEI8Q
07 - create Pt 2 http://youtu.be/OTzyAjLPIns[/b][/b]

Could you all go and give the videos a 'like' when you can? Hopefully they will get some traffic.
I have many more ideas in the works and I'll continue to make more videos as often as I can.

-More advanced game creation
-highlight help file and talk about online help file
-showcase the better games out there
-the character editor
-the palette editor
-implementing sound and music
-robotic
-counters
-strings
-loops
-fixing bugs
-subroutines
-expressions
-sprites
-animation
-the overlay
-mzm's
-super mzx modes
-file access
-how to make a side scrolling game

any other ideas?
I welcome feedback or critique of the tutorial vids. These are the first I've made and I'm sure their is room for improvement.
Thanks for the help!

[A-Guymzx]

Checking the videos out right now. They're pretty nice to watch as they cover a lot of interesting information and facts, though I'm a little disappointed by the voice quality.
Though, I think I'll use this series to introduce some of my friends to Mzx since I made them quite interested in it after showing them my current project.

[Graham]

If by "voice quality" you mean lack of enthusiasm and long pauses and "um"s everywhere, yeah I get that. I went back and re listened to them and all I could say was I was recording them really late and I was tired, and I'm not a confident speaker. I may re record them, and I'll definitely try to do better with the next ones, now that I'm catching on to what I'm doing. Or did you mean something else, like its bad quality audio and hard to understand?

[Lachesis]

Hi! I'm moving this to the Tutorials board, if you don't mind. It's been sitting around for a while but we never got around to writing up guidelines or anything... oh well

[Graham]

oh, cool. Thanks.

[Graham]

Can anyone think of any important tags to add to the videos to help them get more views? so far I've got

Megazeux, zzt, gcs, game creation system, make your own game, text mode, ascii, video game, pc game, retro, classic, unreal, engine, game, creation, system, tim, sweeney, epic, megagames, software, visions, alexis, janson, digital, mzx, shareware, games, create, make, program, Windows, Mac OS (Operating System), Maker, Intro, Computer, Tutorial, Introduction, Linux, ubuntu, caverns of zeux, zeux, Kroz, rogue, roguelike, dwarf fortress, exophase, dos, game maker

This post has been edited by Graham: 29 April 2013 - 05:48 AM

[Graham]

I've uploaded 3 more tutorials.

08 - create Pt3 http://youtu.be/sTHk265g08c
09 - design Pt1 http://youtu.be/32tLs-HQmLc
10 - design Pt2 http://youtu.be/1KaTQ0WvqHE

I had hoped it would be more but it's been a busy week. The next ones I'm working on will be a lot of fun for me though, so I'm looking forward to them. They are robotic, character editing & animation.

If you get the time, go 'like' them on YouTube. It'll help them get more traffic.

This post has been edited by Graham: 29 April 2013 - 06:33 AM

[Graham]

I need to know if these videos can be understood, I know that the volume is rather low but this is very difficult to fix. So can you live with it? do you mind turning up the volume to hear it well? Do you think other people using these videos will be able to understand them? This is important to me because Hearing the explanations is very important to grasping what to do, and I want people to be able to use these videos to get started in Megazeux. What do you think?

This post has been edited by Graham: 30 April 2013 - 12:48 AM

[Dr Lancer-X]

Yeah, can hear everything just fine here.

[Graham]

That's good to hear, thanks.

[Nahah]

I just got back into Megazeux, and the video on the new configuration file was actually really helpful. I think the videos overall are great and your voice is actually very clear, and your explanations get across very well.

Thanks!

This post has been edited by Nahah: 08 November 2013 - 08:56 PM

[Graham]

Thanks. I need to make some more soon. I've been thinking about them a lot lately. If you have any suggestions or things you wanna see explained I'm all ears.

[Graham]

I want to do some more of these soon. I have been thinking the next one I should do is one on robotic, since virtually everything else I will be covering for here on out will be augmented by robotic in some way. Sprites will be up shortly too.

I have been thinking about another interesting idea for a tutorial. It would be about the game design process. I've got a great asset to assist me with this, zip files of my game. I've been doing them daily since the beginning and they are numbered. I could reopen them and go through them to show the early processes of creating the game, then show how progress was made to create better systems, programming, etc. It would be fun for me as well as inform the novice game creator. What do you think? Would this be a good idea?

[T-Bone]

Are we able to embed youtube videos on the forums? I can't recall?

Test:


EDIT: And so it does!

By the way I'm having several issues with subroutines. A video explaining them would be nice. I'm trying to get robots to tell other robots to do something abruptly... and then tell them to return to what they were doing when originally interrupted.

This post has been edited by T-Bone: 04 October 2014 - 01:50 AM

[Graham]

T-Bone, on 03 October 2014 - 05:38 PM, said:

By the way I'm having several issues with subroutines. A video explaining them would be nice. I'm trying to get robots to tell other robots to do something abruptly... and then tell them to return to what they were doing when originally interrupted.

Sigh... Yeah I want to get back to making more videos soon, I found it really fun and fulfilling. I just can't seem to get my life together lately, never enough hours in the day to do half the things I want.

Anyhoo, I use subroutines quite a bit. One thing almost every robot in the game uses is this:

: "#pause"
zap "#pause" 1
end
: "unpause"
restore "#pause" 1
goto "#return"

This is so that any robot can pause the game and continue to run its program, then un-pause the game. There is no difference between a subroutine label used internally and one used externally.

so to call this subroutine, I have the robot use:

send "all" to "#pause"

then when the game needs to be un-paused, the command

send "all" to "unpause"

is employed. I think if i'm just addressing one robot I could just use

send "pepper" to "#return"

and then the robot "pepper" whould just return to the line after the subroutine was called, but since I'm addressing all
paused robots, I use the universal label [send all "unpause"] and they return themselves to the line after the subroutine
was called. If I used

send "all" to "#return"

then all robots that are in a subroutine would abort it, not just the paused ones.

the zap command is in case #pause gets called more than once per pause session. That would cause all paused robots to permanently halt running, since the second call to pause would return to the [end] line, where they were already halted and waiting for further instructions.

So, you need to be pretty organized with how you use subroutines, you must always get out of what ever subroutine you are in using

goto "#return"

or have another robot send to #return. If you don't, your program may begin to work unexpectedly since the robot will continue to be in that subroutine until it is called out of it.

I hope this helps. If you need further help, post the code you are having trouble with and I'm sure I or one of the other community members can help with what is going on.

[T-Bone]

This is so very helpful!

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the zap command is in case #pause gets called more than once per pause session. That would cause all paused robots to permanently halt running, since the second call to pause would return to the [end] line, where they were already halted and waiting for further instructions.

This explains a lot of why all my enemies just don't move. I wasn't including a zap or restore for the pausing subroutine calls. I have been stuck on this one missing component for years lol

Thanks for this and you explained the process very well!

[Graham]

Awesome! Glad I could help.