Tutorial World

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Thu May 29, 2008 7:22 am

when i get up tomorrow morning i'm going to start work on a script based tutorial world. but i need some ideas of what to base it around. I already have several main things planned, but i'm sure much more can be added to the list. This tutorial world will be an interactive tutorial where the player is told how to do something, they do it, and then they advance to the next step in the tutorial. The tutorial itself will offer simple commands (&ready for example) to allow them to restart a step, skip a step, advance at there own pace, and restart the whole tutorial if they desire.

so far for steps i have:
1. inventory - player will be told how to open and close there inventory, along with how to use an item which will start the tutorial. included in the inventory will be a few book items with info on it and other minor things.
2. movement - player will have to navigate a short turning path
3. buying food and eating - player will have to buy a food from a building and eat it
4. buying drinks and drinking - player will have to buy a drink from a building and drink it
5. vehicles - player will buy and enter a vehicle
6. buying buildings - player will have to buy a building
7. skills - player will have to enroll in a skill
8. building buildings - player will have to build a building
9. trading for profit - player will have to buy and sell between two buildings
10. selling made stocks for profit - player will sell what is made from the building in step 8

if anybody else has anything else that can be added, please mention it.
or if you think the above should be in a different order.

i was thinking of adding weapons to it along with building destroying. but then the world would have to auto reset once in a while to replace the lost buildings. jobs could be added to, but theres no script references to jobs at all.

matthew · Post by **matthew** » Thu May 29, 2008 9:21 am

very nice, about time someone does this.

i think a welcome screen with script commands would be nice also billboards.. anyways sticky and hope when mit gets back from where ever he will put the world in start system

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:31 pm

You could just have the player destroy their own building at the end to avoid the necessity of a reset.

Might want to acquaint the player with the game's chat features (including a newbie chat channel that they can use to call for help even if no one is on the world). Probably one of the main reasons players give up on this game initially is that they feel isolated.

Ending with a minigame or something would be a nice touch I think. Make sure to try to make this fun. It is a 'game' after all.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Thu May 29, 2008 9:17 pm

ahh, didn't think of making the thing they build be destroyed by them. will do it that way. thanks for the idea.

as for the minigame, unless its a script based minigame, it wouldn't really work. crowing, racing, hornball, and kricket aren't integrated into the script in any way, plus they mostly need more then 1 player.

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Fri May 30, 2008 2:01 am

You're getting script happy, zar.

You could grant the player some kudos and a racing vehicle so they can use a teleporter to another island and tell them they can practice their movement skills trying to beat the best time or go ahead and leave for another world.

Might also have them hunt down some wildlife via weapons.

Alfred · Post by **Alfred** » Fri May 30, 2008 9:38 pm

Don't forget stocking their house

dramaking444 · Post by **dramaking444** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:53 pm

Bi-plane World!!! Bi-plane World!!! Bi-plane World!!! Bi-plane World!!! Bi-plane World!!!

Baladin · Post by **Baladin** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:04 am

dramaking444 wrote:Bi-plane World!!! Bi-plane World!!! Bi-plane World!!! Bi-plane World!!! Bi-plane World!!!

Agreed its where i learnt to play.

Sheba · Post by **Sheba** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:19 pm

perhaps you could also have wildlife they have to destroy with weapons and bring 5 of or something to give them an idea on weapons, oh and crows maybe could be explained as well, they are always fun.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:38 pm

hmm...no updates on this since july.

it had pretty much been canceled since i had started work again, and the game got so empty i lost interest in it. but now that i am once again unemployed and the game seems to be picking up a little bit, i will start working on this again.

BLACKHAT · Post by **BLACKHAT** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:47 pm

Planet needs to be near the spawn point in space, like where Zion is.

Post by **Mit** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:36 pm

A tutorial / introduction world is (still) top of my list to do before we would attempt any proper advertising for the game. My intention would be to make it an 'offline' starting world that all players have to progress through before they get to space. Part of it would be a tutorial flow to introduce players to the main game concepts and controls, part of it would be a 'storyline', with the intention of setting the player in the appropriate mindset to go off exploring the strange and changeable galaxy out there.
Its also the intention to make it more 'controlled' than normal worlds, allowing us to make a particularly good first impression by setting up scenes and cameras to make th best of the graphics.

I have started a bit of work on it.. :]

Tuatha101 · Post by **Tuatha101** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:40 pm

we need advertisements on things like myspace.
i think its a good idea. what i dont like right now is the fact that osing your ship and stuff is way too easy, and the small amount of players.
What might be making peeps back off is the overall starting complication, and the fact that this game must be downloaded.

fhko · Post by **fhko** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:03 pm

If memory serves me correctly, TU does have a myspace page. I'm not sure if it still exists or if anyone has edited it recently. (I don't mess with social networking sites)

As far as downloading, I think the main installation file is within the limits of what a person with dial-up will patiently put up with downloading. I know I did. Most games with a plethora of 3D graphics and features have filesizes well in excess of 50MB. TU is a much more compact and manageable alternative in my opinion.

dramaking444 · Post by **dramaking444** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:43 pm

Given the recent zeitgeist...

Bump.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:17 pm

its a sticky post, how can it be bumped?

although i never had started this, and now that flametard is making a tutorial world, this topic isn't needed anymore

CubaBart · Post by **CubaBart** » Sat Jun 19, 2010 12:33 am

hmm whit out zaroba i think the universal would be dead long time ago.

morbydvisns · Post by **morbydvisns** » Sat Jun 19, 2010 1:45 am

Meh, hes no Lone Ranger XP

there's a few of us that keep the bandwidth at a trickle anyway. Nobody's stopping you from helping this ship stay afloat

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Sat Jun 19, 2010 2:50 am

yea cuba, grab a bucket and help us with the bailing.

our arms are getting tired from keeping the ship from sinking :p

flametard · Post by **flametard** » Sat Jun 19, 2010 6:29 am

lmao zar.