[Pimp] Outpost:Haven

[tomsamson]

JD, its understandable when you´re not that experienced yet and have the feeling there´s someone who knows about this stuff in and out and if only he could look through your stuff and act as something like a personal tutor you´d progress way quicker.

But you also gotta see it from the other´s perspective: Someone making games as a profession, as fulltime job who pays his bills with it, likely is busy in front of the computer most of the day and then if hes got some rare spare time off from it maybe not always that much into also spending that looking through someone else´s fla for the rest of the day.

I know me, like some other longtimers here probably even thought about writing a book on game development once or twice in between but most didn´t do it due to a lack of dedicated free time for it and that´s besides the point that there are meanwhile many great books on game creation out there.

That brings me to my next point: I can only speak for myself but besides the side that next to working fulltime on games and looking after my baby nephew regularly another reason for me not giving help on people´s specific flash related coding issues that often anymore these days is:
In 9 out of 10 cases when i see someone asking a coding related question in flash dev its about something i know has been answered many times before and there are also many great examples for how to tackle such problems on the internet.

Especially for things which are commonly used in many games, like in this case an inventory system you can bet there are many examples and tutorials for how to get such things done nicely in games, so a bit of googling often would really give you more help than someone else trying to make sense of looking through your fla lengthy.

Besides that, sorry to be blunt but i find it a bit off that you take over the thread to make it about questions on your game.
How would you feel working on something for weeks or months and then, finally, at the end you get to show it to the world and someone turns the topic completely away from talking about your thingy in your thread for it?

This is also a board where people can help each other with coding problems and its great when they do, Squize, me and some others of the long timers here have done that for years, but yeah, best you create an own thread on your coding issue and yeah, if someone says kindly he doesn´t have time for looking through your fla, then yeah, leave it at that =)

Rereading this post i wondered a bit to myself whether i should feel sorry for how times have changed and also for you coming years later to the party after the days where way more of the longtime members here were still just starting out with making games and sorta spending days, weeks, months and even years helping out each other on quite specific game dev problems most of the day here.
And now its sorta like: Nay man, can´t do free tutoring lengthy, busy doing this as fulltime job now with many.
But then i thought: You know, i think its also great in a way that flash game making and game development and ressources on game development and coding in general have come so far in the last 7-10 years that now its really quite sensmaking to say: man, google it and its likely in 9 out of 10 cases there´s a good solution and explanation for it already out there =)

So yeah, best we keep the focus of this thread on Squize´s game and feedback and questions on that =)