I’m helping some younger kids get started with game design, and I was wondering if anyone had some good tutorials to start with- I’m going to look myself, but I am not the best at finding things.
Thanks for any thoughts
Fredstash
I would have recommend my own but they are too high of a level for beginners.
Hello fredstash.
Have a look at the “Free BGE text tutorial index” (link is beneath).
Greetings
achisp
Hi fredstash,
If the kids are like me and aren’t up to learning how to write python code,
Don’t fear just yet!
Because I’ve learned how to do a lot in Blender game-making without python by using only Game Logic.
Tips for if things get confusingly frustrating:
- When things aren’t working like they’re supposed to,
Start a new file from scratch
i.e. press spacebar and type-search for reset to factory settings.
One time, I played with game physics too much, messing it up,
and a fresh start gave much better results.
Much simpler than learning how a pro would fix whatever the issue is.
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Although you can learn from other people’s examples,
Sometimes their UI is changed
(E.g. you won’t find their ‘pencil case’ in the same spot you keep yours handy).
This sometimes frustrated and confused me.
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Oh, and if you can’t find the same materials settings you saw before,
Check the render engine (top middle of your screen).
Because Blender Game settings are different from Cycles Render and Blender Render.
Good luck!
Oh, one more tip:
If everything in the game is white,
Then switch from GLSL to Multi-texture.
Fixed things for me.
Press the n-key* to open a panel to your right.
Scroll down to “Shading” and open the tab.
I’m curious to know how this teaching project goes!
Haha, I only use logic bricks too, actually this kid likes coding so thats what he is looking for- I still have like a week and a half until I need this.
ThaTimst3r has some good tutorials, I started off over there. https://www.youtube.com/user/ThaTimst3r
For Python, Arsenal RSL has loads of short tutorials. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8fEnP9462piEg4xa3xNHOA
Also BornCG has a very easy tutorial series on how to make a simple game. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLda3VoSoc_TSS7ht07sCt8zDCyAenOG6i
John Hamilton has various easy tutorials as well, but I would recomend starting at Tim’s channel first. Only later show them the API… 
YouTube tutorials, especially BornCG (older name = cgboorman). They got me into Blender, literally.
lol.
Though I may need to learn python one of these days.
There’s plenty of python code examples on blenderartists.org for your student to look at, so he’ll probably like that.
CG Sky have good tutorials too, there are lot of videos if you type BGE or UPBGE, I think it’s hard to mention all of them 