Do my tutorials suck?
Today Derrick Niehaus, a blog reader, sent me this comment in Line Rider creation game tutorial 4:
“AHAHAHAHH someone stole your tutorial completely and made it into a game.. here
thats so funny! they didnt even change the line color.. or get rid of the bouce counter.. or the circle where the ball had been”
He was right… I went to the page and what I saw was the **same** example I provided in the tutorial with more “levels”.
The game is on the homepage too.
The question now is: Do my tutorials suck? I mean, if you copy a game without changing anything, maybe the tutorial was not so clear.
What do you think about it?
Anyway, I will not stop polluting the net with my tuts… and I am going to release soon a game to show how a bounce game should be made.
Meanwhile… LOL!
(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Alex
your tutorials are great, i think that you should sew that guy. But… you tutorials are still great. That guy is just too stupid to change anything about it. Great Tuts
/m
your tutorials are excelent!
people just don’t have any creativity whatsoever, and they should be ashamed of (contact the site and tell them about this game, also).
And thanks, by the way, for your work.
zproxy
It would be great if the code would compile with mtasc :)
Duke 2.0
You need to contact AddictingGames to show them where the “Inspiration” for that game came from. And judging from the fact that the collision detection on the blue circles in the game uses the bounding boxes, its not a particularly high-quality flash game.
Your tutorials are excellent. How else would I be able to make good collision detection code in anything I do? How would I be able to make bounces? This is the only place I have found other than the tutorial on the N-game that helps you understand how a proper bounce works.
The only pollution being made here is by people who think they can get away with this stuff.
mousey
Your tuts are awsome ive learnt so much from them and i carnt thank you enough for making them, i would promote you if i could !
Callum
your tutorials are amazing, I wanted to make a lash game to impress my friends, but I knew nothing about flash or acionscript and your tutorials have basically tought me action script and flash. I’m working on a multiplayer game. Using most of the skills your tuts have tought me. :]
Bob
Hey! My name is Bob, and I have been visiting your site since about Dec. last year (although I generally don’t comment you tutorials) I think that guy is a royal asshole and your tutorials are amazing and have helped me in my flash career big time. (See my deviantart for examples: http://www.clayinferno.deviantart.com) So yah, amazing site.
intoxicatedLama
I love your tutorials!
Im a fan
Nic
Hey. They can be polished a little bit, contact me and I can tell you how, but just cause some guy published some cheesy game does not make him a developer. Keep producing tutorials and do not worry about that guy. He will not be able to publish much of anything anyways by not learning. Keep up the good work and dont loose heart.
hasna
your are the best i have found =D
hasna
hehe i mean your tutorials are the best i have found
zak
these are the best flash tut’s i have ever came across because u give easy instructions and show what the outcome is iv been coming here every since i got macromedia so i give this site 5 starz =)
Jehebi
I’d agree that your tutorials are absolutely awesome down to the last part. You explain what’s going on so people can understand it.
I found another what would look like a copy with a not so good ink counter:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/375788
I think you should contact the makers and the websites to bring the copies down.
Jamie
Your tutorials rock, it’s just there’s a lot of lazy idiots in the world that will just steal work from other people.
Mike Max
Thanks for pointing this out, I did in fact sponsor draw bounce and I have now removed it from our website as it seams that he just took the code from this. Sorry for any problems this may have caused.
Mike – maxgames.com
Jim
You say that you are no longer sponsoring him, but why? A tutorial is made to be usefull, that game has only used the code as a guide and has changed it massively – surely that is what a tutorial is for?
-Jim
brandon
dont worry about it. just contact the site and/or him and tell them he plagerized. i would love to see you submit a game to addicting games to replace his. that would be fair enough payback.
Anonymous
Your tutorials eat meat pie! (translated from weirdo language is ‘your tuts are awesomeeeeee!)
Dunk Nicoll
Your tutorials totally rock, you talk and explain things exactly the way my brain likes so we both thank you and hope you continue with your fantasticness! :)
-Dunk
Someguy
i love your tutorials they are the best the only good tuts on the internet ^_^ but i was wondering is there a place where i can request a tutorial????
Emanuele Feronato
Do it wherever you want, I read all comments.
Christian
What? nooooooooooooo, your tutorials are…wow!!
the most AMAZING-est EVER
you are amazing man…Freaking dumbasses those who
would ever make fun of your flash tutorials
Jim
TUT REQUEST:
Heya,
never been able to find a good tutorial to make a game which you can like make your own platformer levels – dno if this makes sense or anything…
Thanks
Jim
PS: WOOO ur tuts kick ballz…
Sirus
you’r tut’s dont suck. i made some pretty sick games all because you taught me how to do it. some perople are just lazy and take advantage of the tut’s you make.
: )
Mike Max
As a compromise I got the author to place a link on the menu of draw bounce game to link to this site, I hope this makes everyone happy.
Thanks
Mike – maxgames.com
i hate you
YOUR TUTORIALS ARE SHIT
Mortisimus
Reply to “Mike Max” : You said you had removed it from your site… http://www.maxgames.com/game/draw-bounce.html
robert
NO your tuts dont suck people r just lazy and are ass wholes and just copy your tuts
dont think anything of it
s0daplayer
Your tutorials are great. Your how to make a game tutorial was the first tutorial ever that I took on actionscript. Hope you continue to make more finely and well made tutorials.
Christian
Hey man, today is my first day on your site, and i must say I am hooked, you have many cool tutorials, and the site is very simple to navigate.
I have a plan to make a flash tutorial site kind of like this one, ill make sure to link to you, and hope to have your support ;)
BTW, do you have a newsletter you could subscribe me to? thanks!!
Christian Guthermann
Chrysto Panayotov
Hello Emanuel;
Greetings from Bulgaria. Your tutorials not suck, your blog is super, actually helped me a lot with gameDevelopment, when i finish my game (after week i hope) will post a link here. Just some people are too lazy to do anything by theirserves (sorry if this word is not this way, hope you gonna understend me). I agee – people sucks, not you tuts. For me this is the best site for tutorials at flash gamedevelopment theme.
Keep it that way!
Luiz Fernando
Ya tutorials does not suck! He suck! He completely stole your tutorial an made it a game, and have the iron face to publish it! You rocks, he sucks! Understand the difference?
ciaren coleman
he has put a seqeul on addictinggames now
http://www.addictinggames.com/thebouncyball2.html
s0daplayer
He doesnt clear the lines after you complete the level. and all hes done is put a shadow under the ball.
s0daplayer
OH we also now know his name. Blue Monster.
une
dude,
why do you make questions when u know the answer?
:)
Stone
Your tutorials are excellent. I’ve been searching the web for a place I can reference code and code concepts so I increase my workflow and not bog myself down with figuring out the physics and collisions and such. They’re so easy to understand it’s like running into a barn wall. Derp… haha… thanks for putting this stuff up.
Izzy
Your tutorials are fantastic! Those guys who upload your examples are just being lazy.
Don’t stop writing tutorials!!!
random
gr8 tutes, dont even think rubbish!
btw im having troubles with making a multiplayer combat game/thing
any suggestions could be very helpful?
ps.i wouldnt b asking if ur tutes suck
Ozzy
that site steals games…
i think somebody should sew them.
helper monkey
ur tuts dont suk, they rok!! i made a sweet Defender game using elements from ur artillery game, and others, that guy was just too lazy and stupid to change anything. seriously, wat kind of idiot steals a game, and doesn’t even change the LINE COLOR =P
flashbynight
I agree, I was looking long and hard for a site like this before I found it. Your tutorials are MUCH appreciated.
As for the stolen content, it happens. Obviously you don’t put your premium stuff on the tutes for free, you put stripped-down versions that only idiots steal.
Venkadesan Tharshan
your tutorials are awesome ! i love them.
Thanks..
styxtwo
your tutorials rock, the dude is just azy, trying to make money of your tut without changing anything
styxtwo
i meant lazy :P not azy :P
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HELL, NO!
Slimjim
this site too
http://www.addictinggames.com/paintballthegame.html
Cory
Don’t mind him, he’s just a douche. Whoever uses someone else’s game and modifies 2 things to make a few bucks on AG must be a giant loser. I mean, that games not fun AT ALL. It’s just gay. It probably took him two seconds and he’s smiling in his chair saying “I made a game!!! Finally” even tho he didn’t do shit.
Your tuts are amazing, I understood them in all of 2 seconds. Keep up the good work.
Cory
Don’t Worry, I fixed it up. I reviewed the game and posted a link to here and told him to stop being a douche.
Randomguy
R U kidding!
Your tutorials are great!
Just 1 thing though, do you know what’s wrong with my flash? the hit tests are not working no matter what i try.
thanks.
emanuel
hey i found anotherstupid guy that did the same with the tut heres the page
http://www.kongregate.com/games/dharper7/dylans-game-3
SavWare
Your tutorials do not suck. You have a great website, I will be blogging about your site and all the great Flash Tutorials I have found here (in a couple of days). I found your tutorials great because not only do you show us the source, but then you explain it line by line, and sometime you have the Flash example after you explain it. This is awesome, you can visualize what the source code (plus your line by line explanation) actually does.
Keep up the excellent work.
Marco
Your tutorials are awesome. I’m from spain, and I visit every day your site.
My english is bad, but I understand “ALL” the tutorial, so continue with this level in your tutorials Emanuele.
I’m searching how to make a “Bike” game, like Bike Mania, but I don’t found anything.
Bye Emanuele ;)
EagleVision
Are you going to make the bounce game? Thank you!
Andrew J
Hey Emanuele
Ignore those idiots who say your tutorials suck coz they don’t.
I was playin this really old game on an emulator (can’t remember its name… i’ll comment it later if I remember) but the basic idea was to bash a button to make the athlete sprint in a race. I was trying to create something like it on flash but I don’t really have much of a clue on doing it. Could you possibly do a tutorial on something like that please
sam
The game is such an awful copy, it looks like they haven’t tested it at all… To see this for yourself simply go to the level where there are moving red lines. You’ll find that you die without touching them. This is because of the way the lines have been made – I know this because I encountered an error like this in a game I played. I worked on it and sorted it out, this guy has just cut, pasted and published.
I made a game based on your tutorial,. which I must say was extremely helpful, and I thank you. But I added in my own things, and changed it around. This guy… people like them annoy me : /
Thanks for the great tuts emanuele =]
Andrew
hi, i reckon ur tuts r great but some r a little tough to understand and folo, i think a great improvment on them could be to include plenty of screenshots showing ur progress and explaining what you doing. i no that would really help me.
thanks and keep up the great work emanuele.
jai
maybe you need to emphasize the point that people should use these ideas and learn actionscript and their own creativity to make a game of their own…even just changing colours! putting comments in the actual code and stuff like that. but your tutorials certainly don’t suck.
Nate
I love you tutorials! Before I found this site I spent hours trying to find what I needed!
Don’t listen to the jerks who say they suck, they are about as wrong as they can get!
Mister Chief
I think your tutorials are really useful. You not only provide example code but explain what is means which means that we actually understand it.
:)
ZackAttack667
It isn’t your fault, your tutorials are great. You let us understand the meanings of the codes. Maybe some people don’t get it that they should learn and not copy.
devis
hi i’m making a game..bike ride but stuck with the physics part…..the collisions with obstacles and other things…………can u help?
Eli
Hi, your tutorials are great. i stop every few weeks and learned alot!
Thanks!
Eddie from FGA
Congrats addicting games! :]