My Startup about website for new indie game developers

[joannesalfa]

Hey! i'm working a website about stuffs for new indie game developers like resources, tutorials, reviews, tools, freebies, etc. which is inspired by websites what they show tutorials for photoshop, flash, after effects, web, vector, etc. I was looking another similiar about videogame tutorials like how they have done a lot of photoshop tutorials, but it seems no website about like this.

I decided to make this website where the people can learn videogames from scracth using any engine like C++, Construct, RPG Maker, Multimedia Fusion 2, Unity3D, etc. also there will have exclusive freebies by myself or my future team. There will be request section that you can request tutorials and we will make it one.

Actually, this site is under construction... i will reply this thread when it's done or it can send you via e-mail if you registered.

Here is my link:
powerupware.com

The feedbacks are always welcome!

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

As a Flash website, it's quite nice. But don't you think this job would be better suited for a forum, like this one?

 

[joannesalfa]

This is not a flash website, lol

It's developed with HTML/CSS and javascript. The Forum is different where the community can discuss and get some opportunites.

The tutorial website is almost same to concept of http://psd.tutsplus.com/ but not equal. There will have interactive tutorials what it makes you to learn in ease and there will have source codes developed by PowerUpware.

 

[valkyriegames]

Hey this sounds like a great idea. I know how hard it is to find resources for indie games as well. In relation to tutes though, doesnt tutplus have tutes for all sorts of things including html5? It can't hurt to have more tutes available though I suppose since they don't cover everything, and I wouldbt mind learning unity3d. Let me know when the site is complete so I can check it out!

 

[joannesalfa]

Hey this sounds like a great idea. I know how hard it is to find resources for indie games as well. In relation to tutes though, doesnt tutplus have tutes for all sorts of things including html5? It can't hurt to have more tutes available though I suppose since they don't cover everything, and I wouldbt mind learning unity3d. Let me know when the site is complete so I can check it out!

Surely, at this thread or if you registered via e-mail, they will notify when the site is completed, there will be always updated, in tutsplus rarely have posts about html5, but not at all.

It's only related to indie game development and stuffs, not another site like gamespot, 1up, IGN, etc. live videogame reviewers.

 

[rosareven]

Nifty website. Something like that without the use of Flash has been something that I want to achieve for my personal website.

I've been used to jumping all over the place for resources, but it doesn't hurt to have an attempt at a more consolidated place for resources. If anything, it can at least serves as a good backup of resources.

I'm more interested in the website itself because making it Flash-like without using Flash excites me XD Looking forward to it!

 

[joannesalfa]

@rosaeven you like making flash-like website without using flash player? It was just a landing page, when site is completed, there it will have no flash-like effects except a slider may look like flash.


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There are kind of methods to make interactive tutorials

1-http://undum.com/games/tutorial.en.html

2-http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/

3-A custom interactive html5 canvas


What would you like to use one or more of those methods for my site?

 

[rosareven]

Undum (first choice) would be really awesome for tutorials.

Just tried out some of the link features in Undum. It would be good if you make sure all external links open in a new tab/window instead of leaving the website.

 

[joannesalfa]

It may be hard work for me to have different posts using Undum, but i will see if i can handle to ease it.

 

[So fist]

It really depends on what will be easy for your contributors to enter in your system as well as what easily supports different multimedia formats. The easier it is for a user to pick up and use to make contributions the faster your site should grow in terms of tutorials. Also if you can get anything interactive like a section where someone practices inputs to a compiler to have their code checked for syntax etc. as well as try and solve coding problems for practice would be cool. For security reasons code isn't parsed and executed or compiled, it is just checked to see if it matches proper parameters or a valid answer that is stored on the database.

 

[joannesalfa]

It really depends on what will be easy for your contributors to enter in your system as well as what easily supports different multimedia formats. The easier it is for a user to pick up and use to make contributions the faster your site should grow in terms of tutorials. Also if you can get anything interactive like a section where someone practices inputs to a compiler to have their code checked for syntax etc. as well as try and solve coding problems for practice would be cool. For security reasons code isn't parsed and executed or compiled, it is just checked to see if it matches proper parameters or a valid answer that is stored on the database.

Yeah that's why i tought so. I always use notepad++ which helps me a lot.