With our new staff members now selected, you will not be sending everything to one singular e-mail. Instead you will send them to people who update their section specifically. When submitting your file for the website, you must remember these things: Submitting a Tutorial: 1. First of all, make sure you have a tutorial that hasn't been covered yet. And if it has, at least make sure you have a good reason to remake it (TGF/MMF conversions, extension replacements, completely different style, etc...) I try every tutorial however. 2. Make it neat, if one thing works but causes something else to go completely wacky, try to fix that part too. It makes your tutorial much more effective. 3. Save with exes if you can. I know some of you trial version people cannot, but those who can, save with an exe... NOT as a stand alone. There are people who do not have any of programs you use, but would like to see it in action anyway. I used to be one of those people. 4. Credit the spriters, BG artists, anyone you used as a guide, MIDI composers, even the sound effects rippers. 5. ZIP the files. And please do NOT include a zip file in the zip with the tutorial, it just punches up file size, and on an AOL connection that can make a difference. How Tutorials are Judged: 1. First of all, it will receive a quality control test, in other words, I play through it and pick at every single event to be sure that the method works effectively. 2. If there are other tutorials for that platform (As in you submit a TGF Homing attack when we already have 3+ for TGF) I'll compare the effectiveness between tutorials. Existing tutorials will be removed on RARE occasions, and if the submitted tutorial meets or exceeds the quality of the others, it will usually pass. 3. If there are not any similar tutorials for that platform, then chances are it will be accepted if it passes the quality control test. After the Judgment 1. I will e-mail those whose tutorials were rejected for one reason or another with two possible responses: 1a. Please try to fix up
(insert problems I find here) and resubmit it 2. Accepted tutorials uploaded, pages updated, and status post made in news. Other Important Subjects 1. Non Click Team products-tutorials will be accepted for tutorials for other formats (like Game Maker) if they can pass general quality control. At no time will comparisons be made across gaming products. However you must send the link of a LEGAL FREE trial version of the software you used so I can test it. By the way, I own TGF, MMF 1.5, and Game Maker 5.3 2. Written Tutorials-If they appear helpful they will be uploaded as well. By the way, I'm a real nit picker when it comes to spelling and grammar... as long as its not my own. *smack* 3. Keep Tutorials as Tutorials and not Billboards or Graphic Collections-this proclamation was made earlier when all the maintainers were selected, basically keep different things apart. Send sprites only as sprites to the sprite people, BGs to the BG people, etc etc etc 4. Standards and How They are Determined-I use my best judgment to determine a general standard for all tutorials. The standard varies depending on the program (Higher for TGF and MMF, a little easier for Game Maker-For now) Please remember that the tutorials uploaded BEFORE I became tutorial maintainer have nothing to do with today's standards... in other words, don't compare yours to those older ones. For the Tutorial Section, you will e-mail: ilascott @
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