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Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« on: September 17, 2011, 02:58:58 pm »
I am just starting Axe. How would I go about learning it?
Are there any beginner tuts?
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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2011, 02:59:51 pm »
Read the PDF that came wiht Axe
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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2011, 03:34:33 pm »
That.  One of the better ways to learn it is to read through the documentation and commands list, then start to experiment.  Over time you'll start making little connections here and there, and before you know it...;D
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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2011, 03:56:27 pm »
You learn by doing, but don't forget to BACKUP your data before you run it (the parser can also compile from archive)
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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2011, 12:54:32 pm »
yeah just get the axe prgm, and in the file u export it will have a bunch of tuturiols and examples, plus a command and begginer packet
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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2011, 12:55:05 pm »
also, i advise u always compile with ion!!!! works easier and is easier to use
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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2011, 12:57:06 pm »
:) The only issue people might have with that is that the end user will need an ION shell x.x

Also, we usually edit our previous post with amendments as opposed to double posting :)
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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2011, 12:57:39 pm »
Hey saintruner, not sure if you ever read the rules, but you should only doublepost when a period of over 6 hours has passed or you're posting updates to a project.
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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2011, 12:59:52 pm »
1 period = 1 day? So 1 period over 6 is four hours... :P

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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2011, 10:08:49 pm »
.... Thinking....

I guess a period must be 36 hours then.... Unless he's altering the rules... Or something.... ...

Or a period in school... My periods are 45 min so... That would be 7.5 minutes...
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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2011, 10:30:20 pm »
Another suggestion:
I've always learned best by doing: try making something.  It doesn't have to be something ambitious -- maybe try making a puzzler or a platformer or perhaps some kind of utility program.  Build on it iteratively, and make it a learning process.  After all, you only know what questions to ask when you need to ask the question (err, does that make sense?)  Post updates fairly frequently too -- it motivates you to work on it/makes you look stupid if you stop all of a sudden (so you don't).

...to be honest, I need to start doing that myself.
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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2011, 11:03:28 pm »
Quote from: Michael_Lee on October 30, 2011, 10:30:20 pm

...to be honest, I need to start doing that myself.
yes, I've been waiting for Lights and Axe Minewseeper 1.00 for over a year now. <_<
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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2011, 11:08:39 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on October 30, 2011, 11:03:28 pm
Quote from: Michael_Lee on October 30, 2011, 10:30:20 pm

...to be honest, I need to start doing that myself.
yes, I've been waiting for Lights and Axe Minewseeper 1.00 for over a year now. <_<

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Another tip: don't be recklessly overconfident and be like "oh, I can completely rewrite a game it took me several months to make from scratch because I'm so much smarter now!"  (lesson learned)
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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2011, 11:22:42 pm »
Yeah, I second what Michael_Lee said a couple posts ago. I didn't know to make games until I made one. I visualized exactly what I wanted, and made it. As for figuring out how to implement certain features, use the Butts Fredkin Algorithm for figuring stuff out. It goes like this:

1. Write down the problem.
2. Think, really hard.
3. Write down the solution.

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Re: Axe beginner - n00b tipz?
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2011, 03:54:34 am »
Yeah, I agree with both (and with DJ :P)

I have a pessimist sentence: the better way for it to not finish bad is to never start.
Now an optimist version: It will never be finished if it is never started.
Now another optimist version: Start, and you'll see if it is good or bad; if it is good, ok; if it is not good, you can make it good.

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THEN, you read what you wrote and see stupid things and you optimize. Now my game takes 21300 bytes, with more things in O.O

So don't think "I am a beginner". Begin.
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