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[Preloader Tutorial - 1]

High quality tutorial

Wow, a tutorial that doesn't suck, that's rare! It's not perfect, but it explains the actionscript. Next, teach actionscript 3 and how to avoid improperly structured movies that doesn't preload properly.

TheVisibleMan responds:

Thanks!

Unfortunately, I'm still only learning AS3, so I doubt I'm qualified to write a tutorial on it. As to the structuring of movies to ensure they load properly, are you referring to Linkage's "Export on First Frame" option? I was actually planning on covering how to work around that. If you know any other pitfalls I should warn people about, please PM with them :)

[DeRoze Picross]

Impossible puzzles

Neat game and great music selection. The interface was good, but could have allowed multifill by holding down the button.
The problem was that some of the puzzless where impossible to solve with logic only. I had one puzzle that I managed to prove for sure was impossible to solve without guessing.

Pelemus-McSoy responds:

Lemme guess...Halo? Forgive me if some of them are really hard like that, but this is my first attempt at a Picross game, and I created all the puzzles by myself...If I make another one, I'll put in a hint button (idea by yoman6!).

[The Extreme RPG Tutorial]

Uhm, no?

Seriously, you need to explain the algorithms. And haven't you heard about ActionScript 3 yet? Seriously, this was stale before you begun the tutorial.

Jaye19 responds:

Actually no I hav'nt heard of it

[Ultimate Flash Tutorials]

Uhm, what to say

The presentation felt a bit amaturich. The art simply wasn't of a high class. Now, that's not imortant. But the important thing is the content. You made the number one mistake for tutorials, failing to explain the scripts. Oh yeah, you also forgot to give them a readable size.
Sorry, but without explaining the scripts, you don't get any high score.

Jaye19 responds:

Hey man sorry I did a small survey more than 79% were hating code explanations but now I dont make that mistake anymore and also I meant the code sometimes to be none readable it is taking tons of space

[Tutorial: Streaming Sound]

Needs more work

First of all, I can't omit that I was first with the idea of doing this. But let's get to the review.
First of all, you used as 2 and only as 2. As 2 is dieing, move on.
Now, for the important parts, the presentation and content.
The presentation is rushed, there is a duplicate step and the code is not formated. The code can also not be selected for copy and paste. But the background and interface was neat, the contents could have stood out a bit more, but that's nothing.
Ok, here goes the big part, what did I think about the actual content?
I though that it was too little. This subject has so much more to it! The code should be explained, the security rules for loading sound was never mentioned. Yes, there is rules, in fact, it's only due to the staff for seeing this that this example worked! You should also discus how to preload the sound, what if I do not want to start playing it right away? What if I am making a game and want a music track for a boss to be ready to play?
Yeah, things can use a lot of improvement, work a lot harder, submit a new and exiting version, and then you got something worth giving big points to.

ZiggyZack99 responds:

OK.

[Pico: Ace Attorney]

Very nice

This is a faithful combination of two franchises and has few flaws. The game did feel a bit too silent and should have been size optimized. But this is only minor flaws, the story and the gameplay easily beats those hands down. It's not perfect, but it's geat.

burningice579 responds:

thank you

[As3 Preloder Tutorial]

Lacks deepth

Uhm, aren't programming tutorials supposed to work properly?
And where is the even more interesting stuff? Like how to not get a white preloader and why that happens?
And seriously, do you even know about the smulate download feature in flash? You should not only have used it to verify that the movie worked properly, but also mentioned it in the tutorial.

Work harder, you have the spirit, but the execution lacks.

BlackTurnip responds:

You are of course right, i should have included the simulate download (I think i will include it as soon as i get time, so thank you for the suggestion : ) )

[-Platform Tutorial-]

Prety darn original

Well, this is something innovative.
But next time, please please don't just use the "copy this and this and this and this..." system. Seriously, people simply will not learn. That's like expecting people to learn Finish by letting them write copies of some book that is in Finish.
And then we get more clueless people in the forum. If they don't learn, you are hurting us all, they don't learn squat, you get flooded with stupid questions and the forum keeps getting stupider.

Also, maybe you should move to as 3, it's much cooler and faster.
Not to mention easier to work in, now we got a proper object system and only one event system.

4/10 is a relativly high rating by me for a tutorial, you should see how tough I am.

FeindishDemon responds:

I must agree, but I didn't have enough stage space to explain all the code. Plus, most people who use the tutorial would probably only go for the code anyway, and not even bother reading the explanations. It's bothersome to write, and in most cases, probably not worth it.

Also, I doubt anyone who wouldn't bother reading the explanations probably wouldn't understand them anyway.
I do get your point though. I barley ever go to the flash forum, and I have actually only posted there twice. Anyway. I've noticed many people have problems with this code.

This proves your point even more, because I used the same exact code in the tutorial as I explained. I beta tested all the code, and forced all my friends to beta test it as well. So If anybody actually did get a bad outcome, well... you see.

I do agree entirely.
But a 4?!?!?!

:(

[Maze Man]

Losy control

You got a great looking game, but I can't move properly, the controlls are not working properly a lot of the time.

TheGameHomepage responds:

What's happening? Drop me a PM if you have the chance as I'd like to look into it if there's a problem :S

Thanks!

[ASN - Keyboard Input]

Wow, an as tutorial that didnt suck

Congratulations, you managed to make a tutorial that did not suck.
It may be short, but it does it's job perfectly.

ETERNALGAM3R responds:

I'm glad you liked the tutorial and that you found that it didn't suck, lol. I do agree with you when you say there are a lot of bad ones out there.