So you downloaded Coldstone. You tried out the plug-in tutorial, creating your very own modifications to (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/pog")Pillars of Garendall(/url). Then you checked out all the wicked functions detailed in the 80+ page Coldstone manual.

And now you're ready to move on to bigger and better things. You're ready to unleash your imagination upon the world. You're ready to create your own game. And the newly released essential, (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/games/coldstone/addons.html")the Coldstone Game Tutorial(/url), will show you the way. This tutorial will get you launched on the basics of creating your game, taking you through a step by step process of the basics of the Coldstone editor. Before you know it, you'll be able to crank out simple games in a matter of days. Then you can use your ingenuity to start work on the next epic. Congratulations -- the future awaits.

Grab the (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/games/coldstone/addons.html")the Coldstone Game Tutorial(/url), and get to work!

(edit: This is the most recent version I have, from an FC (final candidate) version of Coldstone -- should be pretty close to what will be on the CD, though)
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(This message has been edited by theGlueBubble (edited 01-22-2002).)

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Originally posted by theGlueBubble:
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(edit: This is the most recent version I have, from an FC (final candidate) version of Coldstone -- should be pretty close to what will be on the CD, though)**

Very good draft. I found it clear and easy to follow. A few obvious typo's...(I'm unable to edit a .pdf thus I can't mark them for you).

I might suggest, tho, less cropping on some of the screen shots. It would be less confusing in some cases to see the context and setting of the button or window illustrated.

Useful, very useful. I wish I'd had it a few days ago, when I started working with the demo!

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everywhere else, it's --
"Nomuse"

Well, I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it looks very thourough.

Thanks for uploading! But it would help if you compressed/encoded it.

For now, my basic game tutorial is cancled, however I'll be making an advanced techniques tutorial after I've made a few things. The techniques tutorial I had planned will show making a world map, making various vehicles like ships and such, random encounter battles, minigames, and whatever else my experiments yield. but I won't even start until I have more experience.

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Thank you!!!!!!

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Bear with me, I'm only
an English major.

theGlueBubble,

Thanks for getting the tutorial posted, but I can't find it on the addons page. Do we need to download the demo again?

Here is an exact list of files that I see on the addons page:

audio - - AFX JungleSwamps V1 - 6.49 mb
audio - - AFX WildBeast V1 - 2.47 mb
essentials - - coldstone demo - 23.45 mb
essentials - - win cosmicmemory - 5.61 mb
essentials - - mac cosmicmemory - 6.09 mb
resources - - Empires - 3 kb
resources - - Roman NameGenerator - 8 kb
resources - - Greek - 1 k
graphics - - CharacterSprites - 527 kb

I know I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but looking at that list, I fail to find anything which looks like coldstone tutorial. Is it possible that the link has been removed?

I was about to post the same thing.

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"Hello, we bought a cheese pizza from you not too long ago. We got the cheese. We were wondering if you knew of anyone who was given two crusts by mistake."
- The_Foool

Seriously- where's this much-vaunted "Comprehensive" tutorial you speak of? It doesn't exist as far as I can see...

It has been taken down due to the fact that it should never have been posted. A new tutorials has been promised to be out soon.

/me goes to make sure that it isn't out already..
don't want to make a fool of myself now

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???

Well- the company I work for is VERY interested in purchasing several copies of Colstone for use in creating orientation materials for Upjohn, Pfizer, etc, but their willingness to do so hinges on our ability to understand this software. The sooner Ambrosia gets a tutorial out, the sooner they'll be making bucks from us.

An official tutorial will be released very soon. This just isn't as simple as releasing a pdf file. It comes with a "Tutorial" wizard too.

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Dee Brown
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(url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/games/coldstone/")Coldstone Game Engine(/url) / (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/games/pog/")Pillars of Garendall(/url) developers

Hrm -- evidently there was a mix-up in communication between Andrew and I, with regard to how new of a tutorial was in my possession.

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