Hello,
I’m new to Defold and I have to say that it is really nice to see a simplistic editor with a generally easy to understand interface. My problem is that I am not a programmer, but I am DYING to make games. My age would make many of you laugh, but I’m 31 and interested in developing my own game. Okay, enough dreaming.
I have completed the 'Building a car" tutorial. It was nice and simple to follow, minus dragging car.collection into main.collection, because later I tried to synchronize it after and it gave me an error. Other than that, the game builds and launches fine.
I managed to finish that tutorial without learning how to code, because I just copied and pasted the script that you provided, which I was kind of used to doing when I tried to learn the Unity engine. Their game objects have similar ways to add modules.
Is there a good tutorial video to continue from here?
Have you done our other tutorials? If you have mainly copy-pasted code and followed instructions I’d recommend that you start playing around with existing code and try to make small modifications (remember to synchronize your code before starting so that you can revert your changes in case you mess up).
I haven’t tried the Getting Started Tutorial yet, but I will give it a try. I will try to have a little more patience with it and play around with the code. I will come back with results.
I strongly recommended you don’t just copy/paste example code, it will be better to rewrite it. That will help you to learn scipting faster. And for additional practice you can read Lua Tutorial from TutorialsPoint. it’s a good place to start with Lua basics, such as types, variables, modules, tables etc. Good luck!
This is a very good recommendation. And maybe while you write the code also look up the different concepts and keywords in either the Lua Tutorial that @sgreenyov linked or look them up in Programming in Lua