Make Your Own Coding Tutorials page 3

Originally posted by jonathanasdf:

he never put quotes = not strings that are being compared. >_<

But he might have meant that…no one will know evar!!!….unless he tells us!

Yes, it runs perfectly locally.

Originally posted by BobJanova:

Yes, it runs perfectly locally.

Did it work the first time you put it up? Mine did, then if I uploaded a new version of the assets folder, it would white screen all the time, so I had to delete that preview version and reupload a new game.

No, I’ve never managed to get it to work on Kong. The last few tries I have been deleting and re-uploading, but I’ve never seen anything.

It would be good if there was some way of knowing what the error was >.<

I just did a brief scan of the posts so I’m not sure if this has been answered:
Is there a specific place to upload tutorials, or can I upload them as any other game?

Upload the tutorial as any other game and choose “Tutorials” as the genre.

sigh where is flash located?

Originally posted by SlasherX:

sigh where is flash located?

huh? Flash? You have to buy it.

I’m confuzzled >.<

Originally posted by SlasherX:

I’m confuzzled >.<

How? You don’t need flash to make a game with these.

I know now I want to know why my game won’t work I did everything that should make it work but it doesn’t….. just a black screen…

so this dicusion can teach us to use the tutorial-tutorial.

that makes this a tutorial-tutorial-tutorial :P

Just a black screen. This is hopeless

Upload the whole thing to www.mediafire.com and I’ll see whats wrong.

Mine works

if you’re getting a black screen do this create an assets folder inside your assets.zip and put all the contents into the folder.

I found this thread and am now trying to make my own tutorial. But there are still some problems while testing locally. Images work fine when they are in a folder called ‘assets’ but I don’t get it to work with an assets.zip. Does this work differently when uploaded?

And <group_swf> does not seem to work at all. Any ideas what could be wrong?

I don’t know about <group_swf>, check you’ve spelt the name of the swf right. You need to put your assets folder into a zip folder, then when you upload it to kongregate the zip will be automaticaly decompressed.

Checked the name several times by now. I guess I’ll try an uploaded version next…

edit
Tried uploading the tutorial to kongregate but the preview didn’t work at all. Just a black screen. Seems I have the same problem as BobJanova.

So this works fine on your computer, and when you uploaded:
- You uploaded the tutorial container swf as the main swf file
- For your additional files you uploaded a zip file, containing a folder called assets which contained tutorial.txt and all your pictures?

Ok, uploaded version works now (Damn you, case sensitivity!)

But the embedded .swf file is still not showing up. Are there some restrictions on embedded .swf files like size or Actionscript version?

edit
Works with the KongLoader30.swf from the example but not with my .swf file.

It’ll only work with AS2 swfs.

Thanks for the answer. That solves the mystery of the missing .swf ;)

Guess I’ll have to link to it instead of embedding it.

Finally published my tutorial. It’s a beginner’s tutorial for FlashDevelop. You can find it here:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Paltar/flashdevelop-tutorial

I would appreciate some feedback on it. Both on the content as well as on the language. As English is not my native language there are probably expressions that sound funny or strange or are just plain wrong. And despite using a spell checker there probably are still some mistakes in it. So I would be grateful for any help in improving this tutorial as well as my English proficiency.

Originally posted by Paltar:

Finally published my tutorial. It’s a beginner’s tutorial for FlashDevelop. You can find it here:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Paltar/flashdevelop-tutorial

I would appreciate some feedback on it. Both on the content as well as on the language. As English is not my native language there are probably expressions that sound funny or strange or are just plain wrong. And despite using a spell checker there probably are still some mistakes in it. So I would be grateful for any help in improving this tutorial as well as my English proficiency.

I left a few comments and corrections. Great work. 5/5.

I corrected the spelling errors locally and uploaded a new assets.zip but the errors are still there. Can anyone help?

As for the links on page 13 not working…They work for me. Do you get any errors?