Tutorials And Learning Resources

This easy to follow tutorial will get you started building a classic catch the falling object game.

This easy to follow tutorial will lead you thru the creation of an autorun CD-ROM menu.
A nice little introduction to the application building with TGF2/MMF2

A classic and excellent tutorial explaining the basics of the INI file. The INI is an excellent choice for saving data between use of your creations.

Really not a lot to say except a very complete rundown of the INI object and how to sue it. This tutorial has been updated for TGF2/MMF2.

After reading thru this easy to follow tutorial you should be an INI expert.

A simple to follow 2 part tutorial on how to make a screen saver.

A great tutorial on game building! Build a 2 player pong game with scoring lives and defining controls. A must build game for people new to TGF2/MMF2.

In this tutorial you will learn:

How to set up the frame

How to make actions and events

How to assign movements to an object

How to produce a 2 player game

How to score and track the lives in your game.

All in this one easy to follow tutorial.

All about scrolling the screen and frame!
Your going to learn from common scrolling to more advanced "Parallaxing" scrolling.

Koobare has written a very unique and entertaining tutorial that is a bit different from other tutorials. With a name like SmellyClaw what can you say? Follow along this tutorial and get your own SmellyClaw.......

Highly Recommended!
"This is my favorite tutorial" -- Jeff from Clickteam

Globwars is a turn based game by Koobare.
Your going to learn a lot following this very long and indepth tutorial.

This game is pretty easy to build and your going to like playing the game when your done :)

Features:
2 Player turn based game
Scrolling playfield

You play a glob at war with another glob and they throw gernades at each other.
Its a classic turn based game similar to "Worms".

A developer could add some new weapons -- Create some new levels -- perhaps MOOClick it and easily have a commercial quality game ready to release.

This in-depth tutorial will lead you thru a very complete project making a video/media player in Multimedia Fusion.You will go over some topics like the global event editor, custom application menus, and how to display the videos in different modes.

This tutorial is HUGE and should be done after you have a grasp of the basic MMF interface.

Create a raining weather effect for your creations.

All sorts of effects and options built in.

Your not just creating rain you learning all about how to group events and activate and deactivate the event groups.

More weather effects and enhancement for your creations.

Fall weather is fast approaching and the leaves are dropping off the trees.
Will it be a gentel breeze or a full blown gale? Its your creation you decide.

Then of course it turns colder and snow will fall and pile up.

Its another one of Koobares complete tutorials that will really get you into the depths of Multimedia Fusion 2.

Body Parts
Written By Popcorn

M4OS
Written By Koobare

An advanced tutorial on saving and loading data.
You should be comfortable with TGF2/MMF2 before trying this one -- More then comfortable as it dives right into advanced eventing and complex syntax.

This tutorial uses multiple array objects and the blowfish encryption object to save data. The player can then reload the data and continue the game where they left off.

You will also learn a few isometric game concepts along the way.

An advanced tutorial/demonstration of a custom platform movement system built in TGF2/MMF2. This is a very good explanation and tutorial on how to create a custom movement engine. You will learn a lot from following this easy to read tutorial.

A complete MFA file is also supplied so you can examine the code while you read the tutorial.

Double jumps, moving platforms, keys and doors, springs.

Really everything a platform game could need.

Create a dialog system in MMF2.

This tutorial shows a multi-character dialog system with some special effects.

Combine the game creation power of TGF2/MMF2 with an mySQL database and PHP and you have yourself a global high score system for you creation.

Create a simple chat room using MOOClick.

A complete walk thru using Moo and how to create a functional chat room using Mooclick. Later episodes will add features to this chat.

I would like to thank Joshtek for his incredible amount of help he as provided on this tutorial series. Without his help this would have never been possible.

Issue 1: MMF on a 800x600 display Updated For MMF2
Issue 2: MMF Behaviors Updated For MMF2
Issue 3: The Application Properties Updated For MMF2
Issue 4: The Multimedia Fusion runtime engine Updated For MMF2
Issue 5: The ActiveX Object Updated For MMF2
Issue 6: Multimedia Fusion's stand-alone applications Updated For MMF2
Issue 7: Registering ActiveX Controls By Peter Prins Updated For MMF2
Issue 8: The Animations
Issue 9: Getting the most of MMF for Power Users By Andy H
Issue 10: Artificial Intelligence By Lucas Junqueira
Issue 11: Importing Graphics by RyGuy

Note -- Written for MMF 1.5 so the screenshot may be a tad different them version 2

Want to write a tutorial to be listed here? Contact Jeff in the forums.
You may even be able to earn a little money for your contribution.