GE Newbie! Some general questions

[sonicfire]

Hi there!

First of all - yes, i´m a GE-Newbie!

So i came from GM (gamemaker.nl) to this one mainly because i´m interested in developing games for mobile devices using applications that make this task a bit easier! For now, GE looks like *the* tool for this purpose!

After browsing through hundreds of threads in this forum i definately think there´s a little lack of more tutorials / demonstrations and so on.

What about user-creations? I can hardly find any. Why that?
I noticed several "I´m developing this..." .... "I´m making an XYZ game..." - but no screens, no demos - just offline servers

The official demos (albeit short) are very nice so far.

To get to the point: Are there some more in-depth tutorials available for GE? (I´m especially interested in Script/Coding documents/tutorials, since i came from GM (as i stated previously) and there coding was very easy (also a C like syntax/script editor).

I started this little "dont get angry" clone using GM:
http://www.prodyon-virtual-gear.com/dontpanic.exe
This one involved quite a large bunch of programming / code.
I have no big programming background, and when i look at GE ´s C++ like scripting with void and char*xyz and so on - i think i should better stop dreaming of beeing able to make something useful using it. But perhaps i still have a chance?

Any tips, tutorials, guides?

EDIT: I´m from germany so please forgive me if there are any mistakes or misspelled sentences here

[sonicfire]

Is this forum dead or something? Someone here?

[kruze]

I hear you there sonicfire. My coding background is from early basic and pascal. More recently I've accomplished some very good work with Blitz Basic on the PC but having now moved to GE for mobile work (and not having any C/C++ background) I too would like some basic knowledge of using the scripting language possibly a reference with examples for each command to get really going on coding with GE.

[sonicfire]

Good to see that i´m not alone

Funny, i also "worked" with Blitz ... but i still prefer these more interactive / graphical interfaces when designing games.

At the moment i´m playing with all the GE features but still haven´t touched scripting - much stuff to explore here...and much fun (and i think i´ve already read most of the general threads here (and that does really help i might add!))

[Game A Gogo]

remeber sonicfire.

1st, dont think you will be able to get a response whitin 4 hours, 24hour is the useuall.

2nd, great programming comes whit great patiance, so, you just cant be an expert at the click of the hands, but dont worry, you'l cach up fast like me!

[sonicfire]

remeber sonicfire.

1st, dont think you will be able to get a response whitin 4 hours, 24hour is the useuall.

2nd, great programming comes whit great patiance, so, you just cant be an expert at the click of the hands, but dont worry, you'l cach up fast like me!

You´re right - after some fiddling i instantly fell in love with it !
Dont know why, but i already prefer this one over GM - oh yeah!

[Diana Kennedy]

Hi Sonicfire,

First, a warm welcome to this community. You will notice that this is a bunch of very helpful people here. Just be patient when it comes to answering time. We all got a RL and a lot to do

What about user-creations? I can hardly find any. Why that?
I noticed several "I´m developing this..." .... "I´m making an XYZ game..." - but no screens, no demos - just offline servers

I remember that there were some amazing games done by users. But you are right, we should somehow create a list with all our creations and where to get them and so on.

But I also think that doing a real cool game requires a lot of work. And since most of us don't do this as a full time job, developping a game takes a lot of time. I am here since a year or and just finshed one game so far: http://www.lulu.com/content/215340

I am working on a biger project since months and probably will have to work on it another couple of months, since it takes hundreds of animations.
Verdun 1916 is a more simple game that I do aside of that - just to have something finished, although, its not really simple...

To get to the point: Are there some more in-depth tutorials available for GE? (I´m especially interested in Script/Coding documents/tutorials, since i came from GM (as i stated previously) and there coding was very easy (also a C like syntax/script editor).

I will not lie to you - the scripting thing is the tricky part of the deal with GE. There are some good tutorials but far too less and all above all: far too complicated for beginners. But there's where the Forum comes into play. Just begin with an easy game, sort of learning the basic functions of GE and then get more into depth, step by step and when you are stuck, ask in the forum (after seaching if your quesation has already been answered.) This way, you will learn step by step.

EDIT: I´m from germany so please forgive me if there are any mistakes or misspelled sentences here

I'm bi-lingual and know German very well. You can always ask me something in German if there's no other way. I'm not a native English-speaker too, so I do also a lot of mistakes.

[sonicfire]

Hi Diana,

thanks for the kind words!

And yes, i know - making games (even simple ones) can really take ages, but i´m prepared and have some time to dive into this venture!

So far i´m impressed, i thought the scripting in GE would be way more difficult than in GM - but it seems it´s not. (Well okay, always depends on what you want to achieve, i think).

I wonder if i can finally bring my ideas to live with GE - wish me luck