Do you have any ideas for tutorials or skill maps? Share them! They can be technical ideas or project ideas (or both). We have several forum users who are proficient at writing tutorials and skill maps, and I know I’m happy to produce content that would interest y’all.
Definitely some more advanced tutorials, basically just stepping it up a bit. Maybe something on creating custom ui elements with text sprite extension, which would also maybe raise knowledge of extensions… When I started I didn’t know about extensions, one of the most useful things ever. Maybe a tutorial on arrays, say appending a set of locations in order, as you might do for respawn points. Mainly just more complicated things than follow mysprite with speed x. If tutorials are a lot of work, maybe an easy-to-find link to some documentation/help page. Just showcasing these ideas and ways to do more complicated stuff. If I think of any specific skill map or project ideas I will reply again
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i would really love to see one for recreating retro games!
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I’m writing a book for that. 
However, if you have specific games in mind, then feel free to ask! Porting retro games to MakeCode Arcade is always fun for me, and I’m happy to try my hand at ones that I haven’t already done.
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Tutorial on using console blocks. I have no idea what they’re for.
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More showcases on the deeper side of Makecode: (idea is to combine these to make a game)
- Extensions (shaders, fancy-text, platformer etc)
- custom palette
- advanced functions
- other stuff that maybe look cool idk up to yall
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wait your writing a book!?
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The console blocks are really useful if you are debugging, as you can do stuff like this,
allowing users to copy and paste large strings without copying them from text on the screen. Stuff like that.
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Uhm
Hmm
Tower defense tutorial?
Maybe that would be better off as a skill map
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I would love for you to recreate defender, one of my all time favourites! I struggled getting the camera to work properly, as it needs to only follow sprite on x axis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_(1981_video_game)
I play it on an arcade machine me, @Fixitude and my dad built! It can play thousands of games! Do you have any way to play these games?
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How about a dungeon crawl game skillmap?
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Defender is my absolute favorite game from that era! It was really complex for its age. (It had five buttons plus a joystick!) To port it to MakeCode Arcade, we’d have to simplify the controls a bit. Not a big deal, as the best ports back in the day used simpler controls to accommodate fewer joystick buttons.
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Maybe you could choose between keyboard or simplified, allowing keyboard users to use the special buttons for switch direction, etc.
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- Ray scaling skillmap
- More in depth platformer skillmap (overworld, basic boss mechanics, wait I had an idea)
- Skillmap for bosses in different gameplay styles, platformer, space shooter, top down, ect.
- Complex NPC Skillmaps. That’s something that can be kinda tricky if you don’t know what your doing.
That’s all that I have for now. I’ve been wanting a topic like this for a long time, thanks!
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a skill map that teaches you javascript
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I’m planning on those, Makecoder, but they’re part of the next edition of our school materials. I’m hoping that we can get started on that project this coming school year, but that project is up in the air right now.
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tutorials on extensions and advanced blocks
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oh nice
wait it logs into the browser console as well??? wow
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I think it always did?
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