Advanced Tutorial: The South Guard

[aelius]

Now that school is over, I have some free time. Originally I had intended for the South Guard to be a very easy campaign for new players, and I'm still committed to that vision.

To that end, I've reworked the first scenario into a sort of advanced tutorial. I'd really appreciate it if a couple of people would take a look at just the first scenario (Born to the Banner) on Civilian difficulty and let me know if that sort of dialogue is helpful to a new player. If it is, then I can work through the rest of it and hopefully turn it into a good advanced tutorial.

So go download 0.8.5 and check it out!
- b.

[Dave]

Cool...if people really like it, we may consider it for inclusion into the official distribution. Not necessarily for 1.0, mainly because our translators wouldn't be able to translate it in time, but at some point. We really need a good, fun tutorial campaign.

David

[Attila]

Cool...if people really like it, we may consider it for inclusion into the official distribution. Not necessarily for 1.0, mainly because our translators wouldn't be able to translate it in time, but at some point. We really need a good, fun tutorial campaign.

David

I like the current tutorial, both because it ties into the game as a whole, and because it is very concise and doesn't take a lot of time. The South Guard does take a lot of time, but it isn't particuarlly hard. I really like the redone first scenario. It makes it feel a lot like a tutorial and less like a beginners campaign. The only problem is that while the current tutorial focuses on elves, the South Guard only focuses on humans.

[turin]

You could also say that the South Guard focuses on humans, while the current tutorial focuses on only elves.

Why does it matter which race the tutorial is focused on, as long as it teaches basic tactics? After all, there are mainline campaigns that use all the different races except Drakes and Dwarves (unless you count HttT as using dwarves, which personally I don't.)

[ott]

0.8.5 breaks wesnoth-0.9.2: please remove one of the '*' characters in the difficulty selection (currently both Medium and Hard are selected).

In addition, the '+' signs in the image names are now special, please quote image names if they contain '+', eg. "neutral-footpad+female-attack1.png".

Finally, please add a blank line to the end of the file to ensure the last nonblank line has a final newline. This is needed for 0.9.2+cvs at present.