Every game developer, and indeed gamer, knows a great tutorial is a key part of a game.

They are essential to showing players the basics and expand the scope of the game by making

it more accessible.

The problem is that it can be tough to create a tutorial that pleases everyone.

There are six tips for designing a game tutorial.

Those tips are less text.

Don't front load tutorials.

It should be fun.

Re-enforced learning through play, listen to players, and players should always have access

to what is conveyed in the tutorials.

Those are the words of Dylan Moran, I think, over at GameCoreertGuide, Moran, perhaps,

Moran.

We'll go with Dylan Moran.

I'm Janiel Riendo, and this is Waypoint Radio Episode 181.

Enjoying me today in a beautiful discussion of game tutorials and in-elegant versus

in-elegant's tutorials are Patrick Kleppek, and Rob Zachney.

Hello, hello.

So this topic may sound a little dry, and I am using this semi-game career guide as

very much a how-to and tips and hands-on and blogs about making games.

But this really struck me this week because I'm playing a game called Bad North, which

I think has a really elegant and really awesome tutorial.

It's a relatively simple real-time strategy game where you are manipulating these very

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