> tutorials that assume you don't know how to read. The last point has been especially frustrating because what takes 45 minutes to learn from a video tutorial I could accomplish through reading in five.
This is far from unique to video game tools, sadly. There's this growing perception that people greatly prefer video tutorials. Which makes people who would rather read and think a little bit go crazy.
Every time there's a new release of Illustrator (my main tool), I end up pulling out my hair trying to find text descriptions of the new features rather than slow video overviews. And then there's Astute Graphics, who makes great AI plugins that they ONLY documented as videos for a while. Now they grudgingly have blog posts that sort of tell you how they work. Sort of.
This is far from unique to video game tools, sadly. There's this growing perception that people greatly prefer video tutorials. Which makes people who would rather read and think a little bit go crazy.
Every time there's a new release of Illustrator (my main tool), I end up pulling out my hair trying to find text descriptions of the new features rather than slow video overviews. And then there's Astute Graphics, who makes great AI plugins that they ONLY documented as videos for a while. Now they grudgingly have blog posts that sort of tell you how they work. Sort of.