WHY AREN'T THERE MORE TUTORIALS ON THE BASICS?

post=149230
It is not my fault you guys cannot fathom what a beginner is. Where is the "Beginner's Guide to RMVX"? Nothing that has been posted is close to that. The video tutorials were the closest.

Mary: So what, I should be the person solely responsible for all the worth while content on this site? Especially for software that I don't use? Which is software a lot of people here DO use and are better at it than I am?

post=by kentona on 03/24/2010 02:47 PM
Here is an excerpt of one of the replies I received:

I started rpg making about 2003 and kept up with on GW all the way until 2007. Then I made the move to RMVX and RRR. RRR to me was like the nicest place in the world. Everyone seemed to fall in love with everything I did and I could do no wrong. All my maps were perfect and I was set to be a revolutionary to the community(at least that's what it felt like). Now trying to spread the good word of my work I discovered RMN and I was intrigued.

(important part)
At first what I saw was amazing, games that look like a ton effort was put into(put mine to shame), organized pages and galleries, and impressive setups for game pages that made it seem like these were professional games made by companies and studios, just amazing...and then I started reading the comments and forums.

It was not as pretty. It just look like a forest of douchebaggery, complete elitist a-holes, and just loads of mindless spam and retardation filling up what could be generally interesting topics and games. So naturally I decided to wait a few month before I even dare post my game up because I was scared to death that my game(and ego) would be torn to shreds. When I did post the game eventually I did get some criticism but no matter how light or strong it felt just as painful, I did not handle it well at all(you can see it in some of my screenshot comments). So i then became a recluse here only showing up here and there to post a screenshot every now and again.

I didn't voice my opinion at all on the forums because I didn't want to look like a dumbass or a noob to the "elites" here. So I ended up bitterly taking the advice i received here and applying it little by little to my game. but I just reached a point where I couldn't take it anymore and ditched(which you can find in an Adela Isra blog too ._.). So after that I went and started posting at the RMVXforums where like I said I was treated like a god among men. And it was then, after returning being to treated that way that I realized how useless all the "omg ur so great I have me eye on you" comments were, and I craved the constructive crits that rmn had to give.(\important part)

Honestly I think I lucked out that a lot of people like the look of my game so I tend to get a good amount of positives. But it seems like unless your doing an 8-bit classic game or something truly stunning and unique, that all you'll get it the criticism and not the encouragement. I think having both are important for keeping a community growing. Keep in mind this is from what I see, but for the most part, it seems like the only people really supporting and encouraging the noobs...is other noobs. I think I just lasted because I've been doing this for a long time.

Okay I warned you this was gonna be a jumbled mess, but I hope you found something helpful int there...somewhere. On the forums I now understand where everyone is coming from and why they act and joke around the way they do..it just doesn't look good from the outside looking in.

Food for thought.

I wish there was some way to have high quality games and still have a thriving community of developers (which naturally has to include new developers coming in all the time). Maybe if we had some microcosm of n00bs somewhere that they'd feel welcome at/unintimidated in...like a beginner's circle or devshed. Or maybe some sort of humbling "First Games" article covering some of these supposed "pro" game developers's first attempts.

In the meantime, I have enlisted Chaos to write a short tutorial on the CSS for gameprofiles here on RMN.

post=a PM from kentona to GRS

So I was reading the New to RMN? article again and decided to click the tutorial links. RM2k3 -> 3 pages worth...not bad since RM2k3 is kinda outdated anyway, could probably have more. RMXP -> 1 page. That kind of sucks.

...RMVX -> 2 godammed tutorials total. That is just unacceptable!

So I am appealing to you to write some tutorials (or some master tutorial) or Intro to RMVX article. I think you'd be great for this as you are always so helpful in the Help forum and have that Template Project to refer to. Maybe even just some general tutorials on scripts, how to use them or making your own. I don't know, I'm not familiar enough with VX to say what would be most beneficial. All I know is that 2 tutorials isn't enough.

Are you a bad enough dude to write a VX tutorial?

^ me irl

At the moment I'm pretty busy (trying to find a new job, making a RMVX achievements script among another unrelated project, and I'm convinced if I ever turn on my 360 again another week is going to vanish in the pursuit of numbers in FF13). My other excuse is I'm terrible at coming up with an issue to write about. If somebody asked me to teach them a programming language I would probably start by coming up with an excuse not to. If there was a specific or at least less general question I'd probably do a much better job of helping (see: posts in the help forum).

Tell you what. As a new budding RMVX user shoot me what you'd think would be some general questions and if I can answer them I'll write up a tutorial and see how it goes. And please no "how do I make a cbs" questions

hahah that's funny. One of the things that I was wondering about was like "how do people make sideview battle systems?"

Anywho, I will try to compile a list of questions as I delve into this scary new territory. Thanks for the quick reply!

post=PM to Craze in March
So I was reading the New to RMN? article again and decided to click the tutorial links. RM2k3 -> 3 pages worth...not bad since RM2k3 is kinda outdated anyway, could probably have more. RMXP -> 1 page. That kind of sucks.

...RMVX -> 2 godamned tutorials total. That is just unacceptable!

So I am appealing to you to write some tutorials or Intro to RMVX article or something. I think you'd be great at writing specific tutorials on things like battle systems and battle algorithms, and I KNOW that you could do one on importing RM2k/3 graphics. But I don't know, I'm not familiar enough with VX to say what would be most beneficial. All I know is that 2 tutorials isn't enough.

Are you a bad enough dude to write a VX tutorial?