The "stencil" idea.

[zuhane1]

We have games, we have demos, but we do not have stencils. How about we create a section where people can post stenciles for CBS's, ABS's or just about anything else they have made. This way, people can download then copy and paste them and edit them in their own ways or simply learn new tricks from peoples coding. Sorry I posted it in here, I guess the stencils would class as tutorials though. Who likes my idea? If so, I have a Warioware type game stencil to post!

[Phayre]

That.... sounds like a good idea. However, I think step-by-step tutorials would be more useful, so people could understand what they were getting into.

[Dragonium]

Originally posted by Phayre
That.... sounds like a good idea. However, I think step-by-step tutorials would be more useful, so people could understand what they were getting into.

Very true. If they put in a stencil, and then they have to fix a problem or they want to customize it further, they will no doubt get lost since they don't understand the coding. It'd be far better for them to follow a good step-by-step tutorial than use a good template.

[zuhane1]

But I can't actually find a good tutorial for many things anyway. Surely stencils would stop people complaining.

[zuhane1]

While we're on this topic, I need help with my Warioware style game. It says gameover at the beginning, and the messages come up in the wrong order and get jumbled up. Please could somebody download and tell me what I'm doing wrong?
      I only did it so you teleport to the first game over and over whilst I test it. The variable would usually be random inbetween 1 and 50. Thanks in advance anyone! Just download from this link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZE0MIAR0

[Phayre]

The key to having more tutorials is not making these stencil things. It's making better tutorials. Stencils will increase vague requests like "
uhmmm I copied this thing I found it here and it wont work help!!!!!!!"
As for your game... how were we on this topic? o.o I'm not good with custom stuff, so... sorry!

[DragonBlaze]

Originally posted by zuhane1
We have games, we have demos, but we do not have stencils. How about we create a section where people can post stenciles for CBS's, ABS's or just about anything else they have made. This way, people can download then copy and paste them and edit them in their own ways or simply learn new tricks from peoples coding. Sorry I posted it in here, I guess the stencils would class as tutorials though. Who likes my idea? If so, I have a Warioware type game stencil to post!

Way ahead of you there, well kinda behind actually... Anyway, a year or so back I started on a cbs that could be used in other peoples games, and I was making it so that it could be easily customized and such. For example, to edit where the heros, enemies, menues, ect where on the battlefield, all you had to do was move an event to a differant spot. And if you wanted indevidual menues for the characters, they would adjust to align correctly if the menues were placed horozontally or vertically from eachother. Then to switch from using a time based system to a turn based system, all you would have to do would be to turn a switch on or off in a config common event I made. Only problem is that I kinda ran out of time, I'm still working on it, and its 'almost' done (as in it works and you can play complete battles, but a lot of features are still missing).

I don't think its a bad idea, but really, if you want a good cbs or cms or whatever in you game, you're better off learning how to do it yourself and then making it yourself, that way you can do it exactly how you want and everything.

[zuhane1]

Originally posted by DragonBlaze

Originally posted by zuhane1
We have games, we have demos, but we do not have stencils. How about we create a section where people can post stenciles for CBS's, ABS's or just about anything else they have made. This way, people can download then copy and paste them and edit them in their own ways or simply learn new tricks from peoples coding. Sorry I posted it in here, I guess the stencils would class as tutorials though. Who likes my idea? If so, I have a Warioware type game stencil to post!

Way ahead of you there, well kinda behind actually... Anyway, a year or so back I started on a cbs that could be used in other peoples games, and I was making it so that it could be easily customized and such. For example, to edit where the heros, enemies, menues, ect where on the battlefield, all you had to do was move an event to a differant spot. And if you wanted indevidual menues for the characters, they would adjust to align correctly if the menues were placed horozontally or vertically from eachother. Then to switch from using a time based system to a turn based system, all you would have to do would be to turn a switch on or off in a config common event I made. Only problem is that I kinda ran out of time, I'm still working on it, and its 'almost' done (as in it works and you can play complete battles, but a lot of features are still missing).

I don't think its a bad idea, but really, if you want a good cbs or cms or whatever in you game, you're better off learning how to do it yourself and then making it yourself, that way you can do it exactly how you want and everything.[/B]

I like your idea though.

[Ben]

the whole stencil thing is a capital idea.


I havent seen it done for 2k3 games... Ive seen alot of cut and paste demo systems for xp. they are fun to play with, and the really helped me in learning rgss.