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Just a place holder for now, I am trying to figure out the best way to go about getting someone off the ground and out the door on their first "tutorial" game. Some of this I have written, but may just end up disappearing into internet history. Please bear with my while I try to get you started.

Creating Your First Game
 

• Creating a New Game
• The Title Screen
• Editing the Status Bar
• Adding the Background
• Adding Static Background Props
• Animating Static Props
• Controlling Cursor Hot Spots
• Simple Interactions
• Adding Music and Sound
• Adding Non Playable Characters
• Pathfinding and Walkable Areas
• Scaling the Actors and Ego
• Talkers and Speech Bubbles
• Creating Inventory Items
• Changing the Players Score
• Changing Rooms
• Killing off the Player

General Options Explored Further
 

• Print Message Options
• Animation Cycling Options
• Actor Motion Options

Advanced
 

• Advanced Inventory Items
• Complex Interactions

Modifications
 

• Add the Score to the unused Icon in Icon Bar
• Changing the Player's Score Revisited
• Inventory Cursor images in a single view
• Simple Automatic Door
• Slow Fade Title Screen or other Same room Pic changes
• Adding a Compass Rose

Extra Topics for Now
 

• An Introduction to SCI Resources
• Elements of a Script
• Getting Familiar with Objects
• Variables
• Methods and Procedures
• Conditional and Looping Statements
• Memory Management
• Message Editor
• Audio Explorer