I want to thank gdevelo for what he gave me… that’s why I regularly pay a monthly subscription!!!
But what did it give me?
the passion in creating videogames “which I already had”
the positive sides are the simplicity in creating the games… games that unfortunately are ends in themselves… unfortunately the developers have not thought about the services to add… such as the connection with facebook obfuscation files and much more than not I’m here to list…
during the development i had a series of problems and it was really embarrassing to find 1 or 2 people willing to help you…
I frequently read around the forum “we are not here to write the code” “read this guide” “read the whole faq” and so on… but it is possible that in this forum nobody realizes how important an example is visual??? yet since we are small in school first they show us the written examples then they explain them to us… but in this forum??? all experts who have no time for you…
in practice the gdevelop experts “perhaps even the owners of this forum” have made both gdevelop and the forum itself totally useless… I spent hours understanding things that I then saw in an example… I was able to handle them with skill… This ridiculous and harmful behavior made me ask a couple of questions… in the end I switched to UNITY much much more difficult at the beginning… you just need to understand its mechanics but then it’s simpler than you think… nothing conflicts… in a few clicks you do everything accompanied by extremely simple lines of code… and the most important thing is the community, thousands of people who respond to you at the first hitch giving you visual code… quick examples… where you solve problems in the blink of an eye… at the level I’m at now with unity and clearly superior to the one I was at with g develop… I suggest you ask yourselves 2 questions too… 6 months of unity has you covered over 1 year of gdevelop…
this is my personal experience…
at first glance I found gdevelop formidable… when then insoldoni turned out to be a great waste of time… and for the most part there is the philosophy of this harmful forum to thank “WE DO NOT HELP YOU WE ONLY TELL YOU HOW TO GET THE RESULT THEN YOU CREATE YOUR CODE” ahahaha but if I want to do an action… I already know how to do it myself… it’s the code I’m missing…
I apologize if I sound offensive but you would do well to take my feedback as a suggestion … delete everything and start over … and when one asks how I should do it … instead of referring to youtube or google write the code. … if you want to teach!!! good continuation and thanks to those 2 who I don’t remember the name who helped me in this hellish and useless program!!! Goodbye
At school, the teachers are paid. They can afford to create elaborate examples and explanations. You seem to be mistaking this forum for a course or private teacher.
First, everyone on a forum is not an expert. Experts are not something we build or can gather by “deleting and starting over” as you suggest. A forum, as the name suggests, is first and foremost a place of gathering where anyone can come and join into a discussion. As such, it is only natural that not everyone that posts will be able to help you.
Then, the experts here are experts because they are experts because they really like GDevelop. They spend a lot of time on their projects, thus gathering experience. Some good souls among those find some time to come and give guidance on the forum, but that does not make them full-time teachers. They won’t study pedagogy or have all day to create full examples for you, especially for free: they need that time to actually work on their own games or jobs.
What you seem to be seeking for is a full-time private tutor, which you will not get on any forum. This is a very time-consuming full-on job. What you should be doing considering your expectations, instead of complaining about how people here not spending enough of their own free time to tutor you the exact way you want, is hiring an expert to teach you GDevelop.
This might prove difficult though, considering you already made someone do a paid job for you, and you charged back after being delivered the end product… The trust has been broken, I doubt anybody would accept a job from you.
I already know you are going to jump at me with the same justification you posted previously: “this wasn’t exactly what I wanted”, where your complain are about things you never specified when making the deal, for example “you used a different sprite for each button instead of a single one with an ID variable”, when what you asked for is a firebase example. That is no excuse for not paying - it is like going to a restaurant, ordering a fish meal, eating it, then refusing to pay for it because you found the toothpicks that came alongside too sharp.
If you do not get something that satisfied you from a paid job, for example it is not of the quality you hoped, or does not meet other requirements you had, then it is your fault for not mentioning those requirements, or not looking into who you were hiring for the job. Once they have delivered and you consumed the work by reading the events of your example, the labor has been done and you got your part of the contract, it is juvenile, immoral, and even illegal to not fulfill your part of the contract, the payment, for reasons that were not part of the agreement.
Note also that your assumption that pedagogy works based off of examples is erroneous. A teacher doesn’t just do mathematics exercises in front of you and lets you figure it out: as they present a subject, they ask questions, make you take guesses, make you do exercises, etc. They make you think by yourself about problems, and how to resolve them. They help you build a mental model, an understanding of what you are studying.
To gain that understanding, you need to think and work by yourself, to learn to break down tasks into events by yourself, to learn to convert your logic to events by yourself, not ask other people to just write the entire events for every game mechanic you want for you.
Your behavior is not akin to “giving teachers feedback with the goal to be taught like in a real classroom”. It is more like “asking the students around you to do your entire homework for you, then getting upset that no one is willing to and calling them bad teachers”
Arthuro’s points are accurate based on post history and important to keep in mind, but I will say that it is unfortunate you weren’t able to accomplish what you wanted with GDevelop.
That said, I am glad you were able to find success with Unity, and hope you are able to make the game of your dreams. Sincerely wishing you the best of luck.
With that in mind, as this was a goodbye post and I’m not sure there is else to discuss, I’m going to go ahead and close out this thread.