Help, first time scripter in need of assistance.

[Shaidoc]

I'm in need of assistance when it comes to scripting. My friends and I have recently started playing Don't Starve Together and we all decided we wanted our own custom characters. Seeing as I can not draw, I was gifted in creative writing not artistic drawing, I was tasked with coding the characters. While I found a video for coding Don't Starve one. I watched it and found it simple enough (FYI I was only editing a template not writing from scratch) and successfully coded my first character. Feeling pretty good I decided to port it to DST, this proved a problem. I first placed it into the game and BAM! It crashed. "No problem," I thought, "I just have to edit the scripts. Well LONG story short I finally got it to actually launch and stay launched when I activated the mod. Now it crashes whenever I go to load a game with the character and it gives me an awesome error for this reason screen (thx for this Klei it is a huge help). So after reading all that I'm sure you actually want to help me, but here is the thing. I don"t want to just get helped int eh I copy the text you fix it sense. I want to learn. I want to find out if there is any media I can go to and learn how to script, I'd like to begin modding other games as well. Is there so magical online college I can seek that well help me, Oh yeah I'm that serious and online because I have been to college twice already and have an awesome job as a paramedic, but that leaves me with no time to actually travel somewhere to go to school. Anyway I really need some help any helpful tricks, tips, advice, teachings would be awesome.

[JacketteFarcryer]

Hey there,

 

Try these links

wiki.roblox.com

Absolute beginner's guide to scripting

 

 

http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Absolute_beginner%27s_guide_to_scripting

 

 

Frictional Game Wiki Beginner Scripting Tutorial 1

 

https://wiki.frictionalgames.com/hpl2/tutorials/script/disable_gravity_tutorial

 

 

 

 

Tutorial - Scripting Basics

 

 

 

 

 

No offense meant by the next link - hope none taken - [you'll see what i mean by the name of it] :thumbsup:

 

 

Designing Video Games For Dummies

 

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/designing-video-games.html

 

This site has heaps of useful info, so just disregard the name of it ok?

Also, many different games are supported here - so check it out.

 

 

 

These links are more for unity users:

 

makeuseof

Programming A Game With Unity:

A Beginner's Guide

 

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/programming-game-unity-beginners-guide/

 

 

stormthecastle.com

How To Write A Video Game Script

 

http://www.stormthecastle.com/video-game-design/writing-a-video-game-script.htm

 

 

 

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-Unity-3d-scripting-tutorial-sites

 

 

forum.unity3d.com

5 Unity game examples: C# scripting tutorial for beginners

 

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/5-unity-game-examples-c-scripting-tutorial-for-beginners.51017/

 

[Has links to a free public scripting package]

 

 

Unity - Scripting

 

https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/scripting

 

 

Live Training Link:

 

https://unity3d.com/learn/live-training

 

[Apparently the next traing session is for heightmaps,

but you could probably contact them to arrange some scripting training. :thumbsup:

 

Kotaku

A Beginner's Guide To Making Your First Video Game

 

http://kotaku.com/5979539/a-beginners-guide-to-making-your-first-video-game

 

 

Well, that it from me, for now at least. If you need any further assistance, PM me.

 

Good Luck & Happy Modding.

 

Cheers,

JF