TGB TDN News: Janurary 2008
by Mike Lilligreen · in Torque Game Builder · 01/13/2008 (10:28 am) · 7 replies
To help promote the use of and contributions to the TGB section on the Torque Developer Network, here's the latest news on what has been added or updated.
The TGB Hub can be found here. If you're not logged in to TDN, you can do that by clicking on the log in link in the upper right hand corner.
Tutorials
Asteroids Tutorial - Now with 7 sections, this tutorial series for intermediate TGB users covers behavior usage for gameplay, GUIs, high score saving, and lots more. The complete game is also available for download.
Rainy Day Tutorial - As mentioned in his blog, Derek Bronson converted this Torque X tutorial over to TGB. Covers particle effects, t2dTriggers, and behaviors.
The Mini Platformer Tutorial also has a Spanish version now. Both the English and Spanish versions of this tutorial were written for older versions of TGB, so they can be found in the Archive section.
Behaviors
Behavior Listing - Lots of great new behaviors added in the past couple weeks: AudioProfile, AudioDescription, GUI Container, Scale Object, Play Sound on Remove, Play Sound on Collision, MouseOverSound, MouseClickSound, and Attach Path. Special thanks to those who are creating these behaviors and uploading them to TDN for use by the community.
Resources
Resource Listing - A brand new section, here is the place to share artwork and other things packaged as a resource for use within the TGB Editor. While still in the beginning stages, an interesting resource to add sound editing within the TGB editor is being worked on. Update: A new version of the audio manager is up plus a font helper to assist in the creation of UFT fonts.
Depending on the amount of activity, TDN news updates will happen biweekly or monthly. Feel free to use this post for questions, comments on existing content or to make suggestions for what you would like to see on TDN (but please keep in mind this is all community created and supported).
Edit 1/28: Added hopefully everything up till now.
The TGB Hub can be found here. If you're not logged in to TDN, you can do that by clicking on the log in link in the upper right hand corner.
Tutorials
Asteroids Tutorial - Now with 7 sections, this tutorial series for intermediate TGB users covers behavior usage for gameplay, GUIs, high score saving, and lots more. The complete game is also available for download.
Rainy Day Tutorial - As mentioned in his blog, Derek Bronson converted this Torque X tutorial over to TGB. Covers particle effects, t2dTriggers, and behaviors.
The Mini Platformer Tutorial also has a Spanish version now. Both the English and Spanish versions of this tutorial were written for older versions of TGB, so they can be found in the Archive section.
Behaviors
Behavior Listing - Lots of great new behaviors added in the past couple weeks: AudioProfile, AudioDescription, GUI Container, Scale Object, Play Sound on Remove, Play Sound on Collision, MouseOverSound, MouseClickSound, and Attach Path. Special thanks to those who are creating these behaviors and uploading them to TDN for use by the community.
Resources
Resource Listing - A brand new section, here is the place to share artwork and other things packaged as a resource for use within the TGB Editor. While still in the beginning stages, an interesting resource to add sound editing within the TGB editor is being worked on. Update: A new version of the audio manager is up plus a font helper to assist in the creation of UFT fonts.
Depending on the amount of activity, TDN news updates will happen biweekly or monthly. Feel free to use this post for questions, comments on existing content or to make suggestions for what you would like to see on TDN (but please keep in mind this is all community created and supported).
Edit 1/28: Added hopefully everything up till now.
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#2
01/13/2008 (11:53 am)
Nice one Mike. The new Asteroids tut is pretty cool and covers a lot of useful stuff. Good work! 
#3
01/13/2008 (3:45 pm)
Hey thanks Mike! I just added my Font utility to the resources page. I'm not sure if there are any more than these two that have been created by the community. Still, I believe that section should be there. Hopefully the emptiness of that page will inspire some generous coders to flood it with useful new TGB resources :D 
#4
01/25/2008 (6:39 pm)
Great work Mike! 
#5
01/28/2008 (10:16 am)
And thanks for putting Derek's port of the rainy day tutorial in there as well.
#6
01/28/2008 (10:35 am)
Thanks for the support everyone. I've updated the main post with everything that's happened for the month.
#7
01/28/2008 (10:44 am)
Thanks for the update, this is great stuff. I was a t2d early adopter, but just started using it after TGB 1.6. Compilation and setup has gone smoothly and I just did the Rainy Day tutorial this weekend and had a lot of fun. Looking forward to checking out the Asteroids tutorial. Also, the Behavior Listing has been a great help for me. 
Torque Owner Michael Hartlef