After looking through Beenox's and Alois's tutorials, I have come to the conclusion that Coldstone is the real deal. So I finally decided to register my copy of Coldstone. I would strongly encourage others to do the same. It is a quality product, even with the (many?) flaws/missing features it may have. Ambrosia has a long history of fixing and supporting all of their titles. I'm sure Coldstone will be no exception.

The Beenox tutorial gave me a nudge, but Ambrosia/Beenox should really thank Alois for his/(her?) mini-tutorial, as that was what put me over the edge. Likewise, I think it was a mistake to pull the Beenox tutorial from the page, because even though you didn't have the Wizard, it still gives a person a very good idea of what the process of creating a game is like.

In addition to the current Beenox tutorial, I definitely think Ambrosia/Beenox MUST furnish an "Empty Project" tutorial so you can get to know the ins and outs of starting a game from scratch.

Now that I'm a registered owner of Coldstone, expect me to be a lot more vocal, and with many more "constructive" criticisms

Let's start making some great games!!!

Fact #1:
It's on the mac

Fact #2:
It's in english

Fact #3:
It still runs circles around all of those Japanese windows RPG makers.

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windowzsifortehfargots

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Originally posted by XxtraLarGe:
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The Beenox tutorial gave me a nudge, but Ambrosia/Beenox should really thank Alois for his/(her?) mini-tutorial, as that was what put me over the edge.
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Let's start making some great games!!!**

Thanks! BTW: his.

And now, let's start making games!

Alois

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Originally posted by XxtraLarGe:
**Likewise, I think it was a mistake to pull the Beenox tutorial from the page, because even though you didn't have the Wizard, it still gives a person a very good idea of what the process of creating a game is like.
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The tutorial was removed because it was incomplete and it wasn't the latest version. I should upload the official one today.

(oh,and to everyone: please add a description to the files you upload :))

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Dee Brown
Beenox inc. - (url="http://"http://www.beenox.com")www.beenox.com(/url) (check our new web site!)
(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

(This message has been edited by Dee (edited 01-24-2002).)

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Originally posted by Dee:
The tutorial was removed because it was incomplete and it wasn't the latest version. I should upload the official one today.

Did this get delayed, or am I just missing it somewhere?

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Guy McLimore
guymc@microtactix.com
MicroTactix Games
http://www.microtactix.com

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Originally posted by microtactix:
**Did this get delayed, or am I just missing it somewhere?
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We runned into a problem with the upload scripts. The tutorial package is all ready to go and will be released as soon as this problem is fixed.

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Dee Brown
Beenox inc. - (url="http://"http://www.beenox.com")www.beenox.com(/url) (check our new web site!)
(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