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238 short articles with real screenshots, written so a ten-year-old can follow them. Grown-ups get a section too.
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What NutHouse is, how to install it, and your first game in five minutes.
8 articlesThe Chocobreak tutorial
The built-in 30-step tutorial, explained part by part, with every step listed.
10 articlesFinding your way around
The toolbar, the tabs, the sidebar, the properties panel, menus and shortcuts.
10 articlesLevels
Building levels: the editor, settings, backgrounds, gravity, scrolling, layers and paths.
14 articlesSprites and objects
Every kind of thing you can put in a level, and its settings.
18 articlesMovements
Ready-made ways to move, one per sprite, each with its own settings.
13 articlesThe sprite editor
Pixel art, animations, directions, the makers, importing pictures.
13 articlesRules (events)
When this happens, do that. The Events tab, the picker, red rules, groups, gates and Teach me.
18 articlesConditions and actions
Every condition and action, straight from NutHouse, with its mode, settings and an example.
24 articlesFormulas and values
Any number can be a formula. The ฦx helper, game values, functions, values and switches.
11 articles3D levels
Paint a maze on a grid and walk through it in first person.
9 articlesSound and music
Built-in sounds and tunes, your own files, and the rules that play them.
5 articlesPlaying and testing
Play level, play game, the play bar, pause, touch buttons and two players.
9 articlesSaving, sharing and files
.nuthouse files, autosave, sharing as one web page, what players see, saving inside a game.
10 articlesSample games
Seven finished games: what each one shows, its rules explained, and changes to try.
8 articlesThe library
Ready-made sprites, tiles, backgrounds, sounds and 3D walls, plus your own saved ones.
8 articlesRecipes
Step-by-step builds of things people ask for: a quiz, a race, a boss, a save point.
22 articlesOnline: the browser version, accounts, sharing
NutHouse at app.playnuthouse.com: no download, games saved online, links to share, play with a friend.
6 articlesFor grown-ups
What NutHouse teaches, installing, privacy, files, modes by age, classrooms and the iPad.
10 articlesTroubleshooting
When something does not do what you expected.
12 articles