How do I use this?

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ho0odini

I'm just getting started with LITengine, and I have no clue what I'm doing. and there's literally no useful documentation anywhere. help

nightm4re

Hi and welcome!
Which of our learning resources have you already checked out?
I can recommend the "Getting started" series for a start. There may be some bits of deprecated or refactored API in the code examples - please tell us about them so we can update the documentation accordingly.

For a more practical dive-in, there are a bunch of open sourced games linked on the page as well, showing you how LITIENGINE works in the field.

ho0odini

I have already looked at that, and it boils down into "we need to do this" followed by an image of the thing already done, no explanation given how it was done. And the game code I looked at was useful at first, but gets confusing fast. Also the actual documentation is mostly blank. and I in the actual code itself for the engine, a lot of the comments are somewhat vague, and there aren't any in places I personally think there should be. I'm not asking to have it so people master this in a day, but having more than the same basics given would be nice. I didn't intend to rant like this but, yeah.

nightm4re

Feel free to share which JavaDocs you didn't find useful.
As mentioned in our roadmap,
this is still alpha software and the implementation itself has higher priority to us than documentation. Once we hit beta, expect that to change.
So in the end you're saying you followed all tutorials, read all documentation, had a look at all open source games, and there was nothing useful to get you started?

ho0odini

yes and no. I did look at it, and it was helpful at first but after a while it starts repeating many points and doesn't explain much. such as using sprites and entities, the game code is all I know of to learn from. also I didn't know there was more than one game to look at, so I'll do that. also if there is a discord where can I get the link?

nightm4re

In my opinion, our platformer tutorial covers the concept of entities and sprites well. Did you follow that too?
Also, there have been many helpful questions on this forum so far. I suggest searching the page for certain buzzwords and you might get some insights from fellow newcomers.
I agree that the Discord should be more prominently advertised, this has been addressed in the new website we are close to finishing.
Gurkenlabs on Discord
Also I want to thank you for your criticism and invite you to share any concrete suggestions regarding the tutorials. A new perspective always helps.

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