Wiki Spring Cleaning

Chronoboy, my first reaction to your suggestion was that you were just describing what the HOWTO is. But you have a point: several of the HOWTO articles try to be a semi-complete documentation of menus in Custom. All that documentation is intimidating and breaks the flow of the tutorial. It would be better if that documentation was split out from the HOWTO to separate articles. I think we should have articles explaining attacks, items, etc, in depth, and a separate Tutorial article walking you through creating your first attack, item, etc.



I don't know if I'll get around to it for the next release, but what I would like to do is to have an F1 help page-to-HTML (or XML) conversion process. Then we can put the whole lot on the web and link to them from the wiki, but you won't be able to edit them, you'll continue to use Custom to edit them. (Also I would like to add hyperlinks and other features to the help pages).

BMR's Wiki Log: May 09, 2013 2325h


My work today was a bit limited because I had to tend to some real-life jobs that pay monies. What I have done though is to lay the groundwork for the Getting Started chapter in the HowTos. The outline and some basic text are in place, and tomorrow I plan on filling up the outline and adding all of the screenshots needed. I may even do a video if time allows.


Anyways, that's all for now, BMR out.

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Looks good so far.

A contest would be something fun for this. That way there will be tons of content ideas to piece together from all of our experiences with the engine and creating games.

Does anyone recall the Playstation 1 game RPG Maker? The first in the series? Well, they had a very interesting tutorial game, the player played the part of the monsters defeating the player. It was like a backstage pass type of game, where you see the village where the monsters live and their story. It follows the tale of one monster that wanted to some day be a Boss monster. I never did create a full game with this, mainly due to when I did manage to get a copy, the PS2 was already out. Also distributing such games was a pain.

This would be perfect. It would allow the wiki to stay up-to-date, and I'd much rather read through a bunch of those in a browser than in custom. I also had thought that adding links to parts of the FAQ and related sections would be useful.

BMR's Wiki Log: May 10, 2013 2259h


Ach, blast it, barely anything done today. Earlier, I moved the walkthrough for the Windows installation to the second chapter of the new HOWTOs (which are now called the Core Tutorials: Making a Game From Start to Finish) but that's pretty much it. Well, it's the weekend tomorrow, so I'll be able to get some real work done on it then.


BMR out.

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BMR's Wiki Log: May 12, 2013 0034h


Well, while I did technically miss a day, I stand by my defence that this still counts as I haven't gone to bed yet and I'll still be doing more updates later today anyway.

For today, I continued working on Chapter 2. A few screenshots have been added along with some text. The main bit that I've added are in the section about making the first game and organizing files. With luck, I'll have finished that section by later today.


BMR out.

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BMR's Wiki Log: May 12, 2013 2329h


No updated posted today, but that's because I've been working on a video tutorial that's not quite ready to upload yet. So no, I haven't been slacking on the wiki work, I've actually gotten some stuff done today. It should be up by tomorrow I believe.


BMR out.



EDIT: Perhaps I should just make a new thread for my wiki updates... What do you guys think?

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I wouldn't mind too much. But I'm not an admin.
and I guess I won't be doing tutorial vids, then...

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Hey, who says I'm the only one who gets to do tutorial vids? More the merrier I say. Besides, there are some aspects of CUSTOM that I'm not too great at, like the art editor. I pretty much never use it as I just import everything from the GIMP. I say go ahead and make tutorial vids, Meow. Besides, as busy as I am with stuff in the real world (which is why I don't have an update today) you'll prolly get yours done faster than I do.

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Oh, so now I don't have a life? I see how it is D=<

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I'll have to see what I can do, but I still encourage people to suggest topics for me.

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I didn't mean it like that

Heh, but seriously, how's this? While I'm updating the wiki, I can leave placeholders where a video would be good. If I can do the video, I'll do it, but if not, I'll get in touch with you. How's that sound?

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Sounds good to me.

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OK everyone, this forum, CP, and your harddisks are littered with useful scripts. So step up and contribute them to the wiki! Simply finding useful scripts which other people have posted and adding a link on the Script dump page would be wonderful. Ideally each worthy script or set of scripts would get its own page with some explanation and be put in the Example Scripts category. But feel free to add whole scripts directly to the Script Dump if you're feeling lazy (enclose the script with <pre> </pre> tags).

Alternatively, pm/email them to me. Or just upload them and post here that you have so I can get to it. I've been meaning to clean up the example scripts page with tags like:


Difficulty: Easy
Required Knowledge: Importing scripts

and the sort.

Also, I've been planning on adding syntax highlighting to all the sample scripts like I did with this one. That way everything is nice and pretty looking.

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Great. Yes, I would like to add a proper index page for the example scripts on the wiki, providing a blurb about each and categorising them, as has been previously suggested.

Syntax highlight would be great, but please don't add it using HTML. The HTML for that highlighted script is unreadable and almost impossible to modify. What we need a mediawiki plugin.