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Wishdream's Experimental Learning
Learn at your own pace - Test your abilities!
Learn at your own pace - Test your abilities!
Introduction
Hi there everyone, welcome to my Experimental Learning thread. In this thread, you can learn skills at your own pace and improve upon existing ones you have.
A lot of you guys in the chat asked me about making one for not just music but for others as well. The results of that is one united thread for Spriting, Coding and Music.
What's the difference between this and the other tutorials? Well, at first, you find things out by yourself. You learn how to check documentation and familiarize yourself with the software you're using.
Second of course that you improve upon the results of the past, you learn a little bit then a little bit more. An exponential way of learning really. Definitely more effective and book context teachers and the like.
Lastly, you can try and to do better in what you've worked upon. An extra effort to make it more beautiful and make it yours.
Now since each activity is posted only 3 times a week, perhaps it will help to pique your interests to improve more and get prepared for the next activity.
How is it done?
Alright, so this is how it goes. I give you an activity and it's up to you to find out how to do it. I will explain why the activity is important. Though some other activities are not explained and that because it means it is a see for yourself experience and how significant the results can be.
TL: DR - I give you a goal, up to you to find out how to do it and how it works.
For discussion and help, use the following threads: Audio/Music, Programming/Technical and Art/Spriting
This experimental learning goes with tutorials everywhere and as well as reading upon the documentation.
This is a very flexible way of learning because you CAN use any software and any way of learning.
Software
Now, before we start. These are the software I will be using, they are all free.
For Spriting:
I will be using MSPaint but later on, when we proceed to more advanced things like animation, we'll be using GraphicsGale.
Microsoft Paint - Windows only, mspaint.exe on Run As...
GraphicsGale - http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/
For Coding:
Now, I will be light on myself and use Game Maker. But you guys should use your preferred language along with a graphics library to help you with.
I recommend Love2d with Lua.
Game Maker : Studio - Available on Steam for free. Also on http://yoyogames.com/ if for some reason don't want to use the Steam version.
LÖVE - https://love2d.org/
For Music:
Now because this is closest to FLStudio and actually available for Windows, I'll be using LMMS.
Linux Multimedia Studio - (Available for Windows and Mac as well) https://lmms.io/
Okay then! Now that we got things all ready and set, on the next post will be the first and foremost activity so we all can get started!
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Status: Calming down and slowing down. Been busy almost 24/7.
"Reach your dreams to your highest potential!"
~John Jerome "Wishdream" Romero~
~John Jerome "Wishdream" Romero~