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[http://thenewboston.org/tutorials.php](http://thenewboston.org/tutorials.php) This is your one stop shop for Programming tutorials, wan't to learn a new language fast? START HERE!

none of it is hard to do it just takes a bit of programming and a skilled artist =D Still this looks really nice, keep it up!

Basically it boils down to what kind of questions are acceptable to ask for the giving help portion of the topic. Good Question Examples: - I'm having trouble with designing this new feature for my game, but I cant get this part to work quite right, can someone help? - I Finished working on a large map and saved it, then my client crashed, what do I do? (proceeded to give proper details and relevant information) - Anyone want to help me with a few Pixel art things for my game? I need help with this, this, and this at the moment. Bad Question Examples: - Will someone make a new custom feature for me? I need it to Do this, this, and this. Please I need it right now. - My game isn't working! HELP ME! I don't know what's Wrong! (proceeds to give no details and shit for information) - I need some game resources to fill my entire game with, let me know when you have them all. If more people would have questions along the lines o the first set then Sure I'd help them. Anyone asking similar to the second set shouldn't be doing game creation. A lot of times the question is just getting the engine to work in the first place, there are many tutorials on how to do that, maybe a quick search instead of asking first would be better!

Recently there have been a few Discussions about Handing everything to a noob developer on a silver platter or letting them figure stuff out on their own I agree with Pandora's recent statements, one should learn the tools they are using, however not all the tuts are there for how to use this at it's basic values. but some most basic Networking and Computer Science skill are minimally required. i.e. Port forwarding, basic Knowledge of how IPs and ports work, ability to edit text Files, ability to both find and accurately describe where a file is. These are the things to google'd because it's kinda assumed that you have basic knowledge of such things before you want to make a game, hobby or otherwise. Game development falls under computer science no matter how you look at it and there are prerequisites to it. Personally I believe that letting them sink or swim on their own is the best approach. Asking questions is nice but there is a thresh hold betwen a development question and a "I can't get it to work" question, the former is ok to ask, the latter is what one needs to figure out for themselves if they want to use an engine. In the projects board it's generally the technical people and people that actually took the time to really learn their environment made the promising and really nice looking games/projects. Sure game development can be a fun hobby and lot's of average Joes just want to jump right into it. However it's not a hobby for the average Joe, Just like Skateboarding is the hobby to many people If I ride one it would end badly every time because I do not have the aptitude or natural skills for such a contraption, same goes for Game design, it's not for everyone! You might have a nice Idea but if you lack the skills or ability to acquire the skills needed then you should probably team up with someone who has the skills you are missing. Forming a team with people is the best way to save yourself from sinking! It's best to team with people you know and live by but if you can't try to find people online to help with your project. That's the other side of most of the good projects on the boards with that they are made by a team of people working together. Now a team doesn't mean you get people to do EVERYTHING for you, you have to contribute your fair share Generally the team leader is the person who writes the story for the game and creates the setting, that the game takes place in, designing every town, every location, story progression, and many other things. If you aren't Technical start with these and you should be able to find a team willing to make it a game with you. So what are some other thoughts about the subject?

By popular request I Re-Uploaded the engine and remade the Opening thread! STILL WAITING ON GETTING THIS MOVED TO CUSTOM ENGINES! lol

Really an Icon just needs to be 16x16px or 32x32px saved in the .ico format, if you are talking about the Icon for the Top left Corner/desktop Icon, use gimp to export

Thanks for the advice, I'll see what I can do.

Now before you go looking at the source, yes it looks messed up, but that is because its pieced together with PHP code , the main script loads up 6 different parts: Scripts, css, Meta Data, Header, content, and footer. The output source looks like *, but the PHP source looks nice and neat. I'm really looking for comments on the look of it so far, and it will be updated as I go along. the links are working, but there is no content in the content sections, the forums are set up, but the categories and topic boards are not. [http://gngames.net](http://gngames.net/) and as a comparison to my old skill here is my other site (will be taken down in a few days) [http://heroofathea.com/](http://heroofathea.com/)

Welcome back, I am the game mafia boss, you owe me back protection for your non-existent projects. lol, jk, Nice to meet you.

This is a general announcement that heroofathea.com will be taken down **Monday December 2nd** and the Files hosted there that are relevant to several Eclipse 2.X tutorials will be deleted. The good news is that replacing the website will be the GNGames site, this new site will take over the hosting of these files. I will update the links in the tutorials once the new site has them hosted. Please expect broken links for the next week or so. Thank you.

Stop it like as in for a cut scene or stop as in block player movement over certain tiles?

Yes you can, you can sell games you make. you just can't sell the source code, even if its heavily modded, as its own game creation engine.

(using the best fake Indian voice ever) Here is what you do, you hold down the following keys: W, F, the number 2, the Space Bar, while typing out "Ganesha is Great" and typing on the escape key … for 20 min. Or asking JC might work better as said before XD

Then what's the difference be tween THIS 50% off deal and a Steam 50% off deal. Answer: NOTHING! Think of this like a steam deal, it's there for a short time, and then it's back to normal, will it happen again? who knows! Better buy it now! Because when it's over you get nothing more special before or after this sale.

Also, tuts the show how to re-size your screen are not required to have credit given to them as it isn't on original tut/game feature by a long shot, it's about as generic as bug fixes.

A good way to help solve this is to educate yourself on basic programming principles and why certain things work and certain things break. Google or YouTube VB6 learning tutorials and that should get you started on the right path. This might seem like a lot or even hard, but it's well worth it to learn to fix some problems on your own rather than being spoon fed everything, trust me. :D If you can learn the basics it will go a long way for helping you make games and you'll find yourself asking stuff in the Q&A section less and less. But to help solve your current problem: Hold your mouse over every part of the yellowed line slowly moving it over until it shows exactly what part is broken. This way it lets you see exactly what all the values are for each variable.

Basically you have numbers that are too big for the variable types! if you want to stop this change they Integer type to a Long on the variable you have a value that is too large in it. Byte MAX: 255 Integer MAX: 32767 Long MAX: 2,147,483,647 Numbers larger than 2.14 bill are not supported

that's the cheap fix, but it only makes the problem show up less, it won't completely solve it and it will still happen sometimes. It's more like sweeping it under the rug rather than a real fix.

To be more specific, EO 1 to 4 can only be used and played on windows computers due to the face it is made with a programming language exclusive to Microsoft. So not it can't be played on any smart phones, not even windows phones as a more updated version of the language is needed for that. It also can't be used on Mac or Linux computers either. Acceptable OS are windows 2000, XP, Server 2008 R2, vista, 7, and 8 (desktop editions). nothing else.

in the shout box we identified last night its when he was trying to warp from a larger map to a smaller map when the larger one's warp point coords were larger than the the max X or Y of the smaller map. This was a common problem in EO 2.X especially if you increased the movement speed of the players. I myself had this problem all the time, I just never got around to fixing it.

I made a batch converter in PHP but sadly I don't know where it is. lol

>.< I'm still getting used to the new forum layout, last time I was here It was all one board, sorry

I watched some of your vids, I didn't feel that the tone of the music ever quite matched the tone of the scene it was on. It was still good, but with a little more practice I'm sure you would create a piece that matches the vid Perfectly. Keep up the awesome work, and good luck.

Nice story, one problem I see is that you throw the words "Thousands of years have passed" around like candy on Halloween. While it's a great story telling piece stating it multiple times is a bit overkill. Now if you are taking about the same "Thousands of years" rather than jumping the story forward again you might want to change the wording of it. It's your choice, I'm just giving a recommended opinion on how to polish your story up just a bit.

What are you using, what version and what quest system. You have to give at least that much information before we can help you with a question like that.