God School Reboot: Sign Ups Open!!

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God School Reboot: Sign Ups Open!!

Post by thinkslogically » Sat May 11, 2013 1:56 am

God School: Sign-Ups

ÔÇ£So hereÔÇÖs the place! Now, where the hell is that... damn... switch...?ÔÇØ

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ÔÇ£Dammit... Why does no-one ever just leave the lights on? ...LUX!ÔÇØ

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ÔÇ£Right then... set the interdimensional portals to ÔÇÿonÔÇÖ, set the flux capacitors to ÔÇÿstandbyÔÇÖ and... Lights! There! Welcome to God School!ÔÇØ

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ÔÇ£Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! IÔÇÖm glad you all found your ways successfully through the interdimensional gateway! Grab yourselves a seat or puddle or cloud or whatever you prefer and weÔÇÖll begin.

ÔÇ£Now, introductions. My name is... well, itÔÇÖs not that important. WhatÔÇÖs important is that I am the messenger, or avatar of the World Builder known to you as thinkslogically and I am here to help you all become gods of your own dimensions as well! ...With a good deal of assistance along the way of course!

ÔÇ£As many of you will have noticed, there are a lot of games in this forum, but there are almost always more players than there are spaces in games, especially in the most popular ones. So this ÔÇÿgameÔÇÖ is designed to help more of you become game creators yourselves by teaching you the skills youÔÇÖll need to design and draw an image-based game (of whatever style you prefer), and then to spend some time teaching you how to create beautiful maps of your world, invent exciting and original places for your players to explore and then fill them with curious NPCs, deadly monsters and treasure that it truly to die for!

ÔÇ£For those of you who remember the original God School back on the Keenspot forums a lot of this will probably be quite familiar (including a few recycled Ratha-original lessons), but weÔÇÖve thrown in plenty of new stuff too so even if you played before you should still find something new and exciting to test you!

ÔÇ£So, if you are still interested in joining this course, I suppose there are a few things you should know:

"Firstly, God School is open to everyone! It doesnÔÇÖt matter whether youÔÇÖve never used a drawing program before or are already running your own games like a pro, weÔÇÖll be starting at the beginning and covering everything you need from the ground up with loads of great tips and tricks to make your life easier.

"The second thing is commitment. If you sign up to the God School, please try and participate as much as possible and complete each of the assignments you are given. Each new lesson will go up on a Saturday with assignments due on the Friday which should give you plenty of time. However, if youÔÇÖre short on time and canÔÇÖt afford an hour or two each week to get this stuff done then this game probably isnÔÇÖt for you.

"Thirdly, the course schedule (as it stands at the moment) will be about 6 months long:

  1. Installing a graphics program & the basic tools (thinkslogically)
  2. Using Layers (thinkslogically)
  3. Creating a freestyle adventure (Arles)
  4. Editing someone elseÔÇÖs work (thinkslogically)
  5. The selection tools (thinkslogically)
  6. The path tool (thinkslogically)
  7. Making your own sprites (thinkslogically)
  8. Building a simple dungeon (thinkslogically)
  9. Making animated gifs (M0rtimer / LooksandSmiles)
  10. Q&A Session (everyone!)
  11. Keeping everything organised with spreadsheets (lingrem)
  12. Using BBCode to format your game in-forum (SeeAMoose)
  13. Constructing a plot (Nerre)
  14. Map making (LooksAtYouFunny)
  15. Monsters (NEED A TUTOR)
  16. Populating your world with NPCs (lingrem)
  17. LOOT! (Arles)
  18. Balancing the stats (NEED A TUTOR)
  19. Setting the mood (Arles)
  20. How they did it: LoneStarNorthÔÇÖs games (LSN)
  21. How they did it: EvilCoatRackÔÇÖs games (ECR)
  22. Actually doing it (thinkslogically)
  23. Graduation.


ÔÇ£ItÔÇÖs all subject to a bit of change depending on how things go, but thatÔÇÖs the plan for now. If anyone wants to volunteer to teach a session (even if it's not on the list) just let us know.

ÔÇ£Now obviously this is quite a lot of work, but by the end of it all we should hopefully have a pretty awesome resource to help aspiring Game Masters create exciting new adventures, and you should all have your very own Universe just waiting for players to destroy!

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ÔÇ£The first lesson will go up next Saturday, and all you have to do if you're interested is sign on the dotted line. That's it!ÔÇØ
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Re: God School Reboot: Sign Ups Open!!

Post by askstoomuch » Sat May 11, 2013 2:07 am

FIRST !

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Post by M0rtimer » Sat May 11, 2013 4:22 am

1.askstoomuch
2.M0rtimer

There is a special place in hell for people who call first...

Anyways, L&S, how would you want to do the part we both got? I was maybe thinking that, if you were to handle the GIMP aspect, I could simply show the neat timeline feature Photoshop has?

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Post by BeanDip » Sat May 11, 2013 6:18 am

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Post by LooksAndSmiles » Sat May 11, 2013 1:07 pm

M0rtimer wrote: Anyways, L&S, how would you want to do the part we both got? I was maybe thinking that, if you were to handle the GIMP aspect, I could simply show the neat timeline feature Photoshop has?
I've been thinking of using the "GAP" plug-in (no, not the comics GAP, although they would probably make for a quite fun animation), and not the built-in GIMP animation. Also demoing the TISFAT software, mainly for character movement, but that could be obsolete.

However, I'm fine with you doing PS and me Gimp, I'll need some more preparation time, though. :)

Not signing up here but I'll try to contribute to the lessons, if I can.
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Post by Ratha » Sat May 11, 2013 2:11 pm

1: askstoomuch
2: M0rtimer
3: BeanDip
4: Ratha

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Re: God School Reboot: Sign Ups Open!!

Post by WhirdCheese » Sat May 11, 2013 3:31 pm

1: askstoomuch
2: M0rtimer
3: BeanDip
4: Ratha
5: whirdcheese

May have to back out depending on computer status. But I'll try

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Post by WearsHats » Sat May 11, 2013 5:03 pm

As I said in Random Chatter: I'm already reasonably comfortable with paint.net, using layers, etc. And I'm not planning an image-based game anyway. So, while this looks cool, there's much of it that isn't what I need. Also, I've had some really bad weeks when I've gotten almost nothing done. Not even a simple sewing project. So I think I'll be auditing this class. I'll look in on the threads that interest me and hopefully learn some neat things. Thanks for putting it all together. And have fun everybody!
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Post by GathersIngredients » Sun May 12, 2013 5:57 am

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Post by I'mBob » Sun May 12, 2013 7:21 am

1: askstoomuch
2: M0rtimer
3: BeanDip
4: Ratha
5: whirdcheese
6: GathersIngredients
7; Bob

Also, maybe I will be able to be the tutor for "Writing a plot" thing. Depends on when you need it.
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Post by Nerre » Mon May 13, 2013 5:25 am

I will sign up for this too. :)
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Post by LAYF » Mon May 13, 2013 1:48 pm

1: askstoomuch
2: M0rtimer
3: BeanDip
4: Ratha
5: whirdcheese
6: GathersIngredients
7; Bob
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Re: God School Reboot: Sign Ups Open!!

Post by thinkslogically » Mon May 13, 2013 1:50 pm

LAYF - Don't stress :) Hope things are getting better for you.

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Re: God School Reboot: Sign Ups Open!!

Post by Nerre » Wed May 15, 2013 1:19 am

Please put me up as lesson 13 tutor. :)
As long as it does not collide with my long september holidays, I would be glad to do it.
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Re: God School Reboot: Sign Ups Open!!

Post by BadgeAddict » Tue May 21, 2013 10:09 am

Is it possible to still somehow get in on this?

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Post by M0rtimer » Tue May 21, 2013 10:16 am

If anyone else still wants to join the class, you're free to do so for the rest of this week. After that, it's closed doors (unless you're extra persuasive).
No. :P

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Post by BadgeAddict » Tue May 21, 2013 10:17 am

But...but...i can be extra persuasive....just watch.....(puppy eyes)

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Post by M0rtimer » Tue May 21, 2013 10:19 am

The no was joking. I don't think the week has passed yet.

Even then, if you were to apply as a little puppy with big puppy eyes I'm sure you'd get in. :roll:

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Post by thinkslogically » Tue May 21, 2013 1:31 pm

Sorry, this week really has exploded on me something rotten!

BadgeAddict - you're VERY welcome to join in, just make an avatar and post it in the 1st lesson :D
M0rt, be nice :P Though your point about the puppy is completely accurate.

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