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Posted on: September 11, 2017, 04:49:55 AM |
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Location: Barbados
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I've been mulling over the idea of creating a Beginners Guide to ENIGMA for quite a while now. I think one is really needed but I'm having trouble deciding how to go about it. Which is where you come in. My ideas are as follows: - Interactive.......where the user performs actions and actions are performed.
- ebook form........pdf, or html with illustrations, etc
- series of videos......hosted on Youtube, Dailymotion.
I'd really like to hear you thoughts. |
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Goombert
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Reply #1 Posted on: September 11, 2017, 05:52:02 AM |
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Location: Cappuccino, CA
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It's funny you mentioned that because I was just cleaning up our documentation for a few days: http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/DocumentationThe Wiki has tutorials and stuff too but these here we consider the core documentation guide. Docs under documentation should provide about as much info as the GameMaker manual or the YoYoGames docs where applicable. Our Wiki has mainly 3 purposes and they are documenting the engine in a user-facing way (such as these pages on the Drag and Drop and events), documenting the technicalities of the engine, and documenting the technicalities of any related projects like IDEs. Supplementary tutorials should go here: http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/TutorialsThe difference is that the core concepts guides are discrete and the tutorials may address one or many core concepts at the same time. Of course, you don't have to contribute to this documentation, it's purely a suggestion. But for everything outside of Documentation, such as Tutorials, you are free to contribute even GameMaker-only tutorials (though offering equivalent ENIGMA codes is helpful obviously). |
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I think it was Leonardo da Vinci who once said something along the lines of "If you build the robots, they will make games." or something to that effect.  |
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Goombert
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Reply #3 Posted on: September 11, 2017, 11:28:46 AM |
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Videos are welcome too, I haven't really created a particular place for them on the Wiki though, but under Tutorials should be fine. And yeah sorry about that HitCoder, the "Documentation" page does include the part about being able to export pages, but I know that's not very user friendly. I will try to get this issue addressed at a later date after some other things. There are some more pressing things than our whole website right now since the completion of ActionMaker. YoYoGames makes their offline manual by compiling chm's I guess. I don't know what they are doing for GMS2 yet because I am not sure if you can open chm files on Linux, but I imagine there exists some free program. Ideally what I'd like is a bot that goes through our wiki and compiles it as a chm for download about once a week or manually when we tell it to. One of these is what we probably need: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Publishing_from_MediaWiki#Extensions_to_help_with_exporting_data |
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I think it was Leonardo da Vinci who once said something along the lines of "If you build the robots, they will make games." or something to that effect. |
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Reply #4 Posted on: September 12, 2017, 06:30:06 AM |
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YoYoGames makes their offline manual by compiling chm's I guess. I don't know what they are doing for GMS2 yet because I am not sure if you can open chm files on Linux, but I imagine there exists some free program.
YoYoGames haven't made a Linux IDE for GMS 2, and Russell said they weren't planning on it. Windows and Mac are the only platforms GMS 2 can or ever will run on. |
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