Sorry guys, you'll have to take me off the list

I had a great time the first time around, i just cant get enthused about it anymore.
Or KS in general...

 

I still occasionally play levels, but don't expect to see me around here much anymore.

Oh, btw, When the level is completed (because it will be  ), gimme a yell! make sure to send me an email ASAP, 'cus i might not get it otherwise
aclockworklemon1('at')gmail.com

I (almost) feel like making a reconstruction of the channelwood age from the original MYST.

If you ask me, i think a MYST level would be a great idea for the next community collab, as it is already divided into sections

oookayy, a topic im good at

This is, of course, a personal reccomendation. Feel free to take this with a grain of salt.

Basically, seeing as you have never made a game before, you probably wont want to step into coding just yet. My personal reccomendation for a first platform would be Game Maker. Although the free version does have lmitations, its a gret way to introduce yourself to the mecahnics befind game making
Game Maker

Another reccomendation i have recieved myself (admittedly never really tried it) but i have heard it is god for beginners is
Construct

Both of those provide means of making games without the use of code (which is a good way to start, as it allows you to get to grips with mecanics, as i said earlier). Again, purely out of personal experience, i found Game Maker to have a really good transition into using the in-build scripting language.

If you move on, or are confident enough to dive straight into pure coding, a greatly reccomend taking a look at flash development. Although not the most powerful platform, it is cross-platform, and can run in web browsers, or as a standalone application (with the use of Adobe AIR). Do yorself a favour, dont buy the Flash IDE. it is almost impossible to make a game such as that in the Flash IDE.
some recommendations for the flash development world:
FlashDevelop my IDE of choice, it seems very powerful, and (IMO is more flexible than the official Flash Builder by Adobe

FlashPunk A Library for making games, similar to flixel, but (again, IMO) easier to learn. The community at the Forums  amazing.

BUT
This all said, please do yourself a favour and start small. I know many friends who have wanted to make games, thought up this grand rpg or somewhat, been unable to do it with their current knowledge, and given up in disgust. I SERIOUSLY suggest slowly working your way up from the very basic things. for god's sake, my first game was a truly awful attempt at a space invaders game.
Dont be afraid to fail. we all do. often. like, really often. trick is to learn what you did wrong and either a) fix it, or b) start again, or something different. Treat it as a learning process, as you would with maths, or whathaveyou.  

whoo, that was a long one


TL;DR
STOP BEING LAZY AND READ ALL OF EET!  

It already does

Ok, Im up!
I'll take a look through it tomorrow. got a programming confrency thing with some americans today. after that, i got all the time in the world 

Popped in to the server, thanks for all the pressies! I think jimj was watchin junipr0n at the time, so i got deconned, but for those i couldnt post signs for, thanks

The winter world is great!

Good luck to ya all. If ya want to see me a bt more, come talk at The Unnamed server.
64.34.165.6:3333
it's where i spend mos of my multiplayer time

Lizz, please. I know you aren't particularly fond of Jimj, but he's doing his best to run the server. It's hard work, i would know.