Intermediate/advanced tutorials

[Poobslag]

There are some advanced techniques players might not learn if we do not tell them. We should come up with tutorials for these techniques. We can reveal these as the game progresses; we do not need to frontload all of this content, it is too much.

• [x] 'Basic techniques' -- the beginning tutorial you already did
• [x] 'Make Cakes' -- all eight cake block formulas
• [x] 'Squish and recover' -- in-depth description of squish algorithm, digging techniques using squish moves. The AI drops a terrible piece, and you figure out a recovery using squish moves.
• [x] 'Build combos' -- digging to extend combos, using boxes to extend combos, skipping cakes which would break your combo.
• [ ] 'Snack Stacks' -- stacking pieces vertically and fitting pieces in between them, squish moves/sticky wall DAS to get pieces in
• [x] 'Meet Spins' -- Rotate pieces to complete snack/cake blocks, pq, ov, uvp, t-spin triple joke
• [ ] 'Keep it Clean' -- Play through a series of downstacking scenarios; clear X lines with 5-10 pieces
• [ ] 'Vertical Cakes' -- Stacking two pieces vertically to start a cake block, squish moves/sticky wall DAS to get pieces in
• [ ] 'Horizontal Cakes' -- Techniques for horizontal cakes
• [ ] 'Advanced Drops' -- Fast squish (tap down), Fast squish after hard drop, multiple Fast Squish, Squish drop (down + hard drop), Lock cancel (down to cancel locking)
• [ ] 'Zero Step Finesse' -- Instant DAS, instant rotate (cw, ccw, flip), instant hard drop, instant piece flip
• [ ] 'Under pressure' -- 20G techniques; instant DAS, corner squish, anti-topout
• [ ] 'Intermediate techniques' -- Initial buffered move, FA-speed techniques which demonstrate long combos, cake stacks and conversion techniques. 'vu' cake opening switching to 'vo'. 'vu' cake opening switching to sideways 'vqu'. vertical stacks of 'j', 'l' or 't' pieces switching into sideways cake boxes instead of snack boxes. Shown as 'locked' until the player is pretty far along into the game. Purely intended as a joke, try to get the player to laugh.
• [ ] 'Advanced techniques' -- FFF-speed techniques which demonstrate absurd combos and impossible stacks. Using 6 pieces with 'jlo' + 'pqv' instead of 'jp' + 'ov' + 'ql'. Deferring a line clear to keep a box intact. Impossible dig sequences only a computer could calculate. Shown as 'locked' until the 'intermediate' tutorial is cleared, which is very unlikely for a typical player. Purely intended as a joke, try to get the player to laugh. If you beat this tutorial, you're given some sort of a "Good job! You're ready to play!" message which is very out-of-place for someone capable of completing this tutorial.

In addition to these tutorials, we should be building scenarios which reward these techniques so players can figure them out for themselves.

[Poobslag]

While we don't want to come off as trying too hard, it might be cute if every tutorial had a cute/silly image towards the end of the tutorial as kind of a reward to the player for finishing it.

• 'Build combos' -- Maybe you can reuse this 'guy ogling a girl in front of his girlfriend' meme because it feels suitable here. He'd be ogling a cake block and his girlfriend is a combo.
• 'Under pressure' -- The 'this is fine' meme might fit well.
• 'Meet spins' -- Fat could be shown a website, off screen, and his eyeballs move in a circle after which he expresses his distaste.

[Poobslag]

We should add a "Tutorial Mode" to the practice mode for the HTML5 pre-alpha. It would give people a way to learn the advanced techniques and go for high scores. While it's unreasonable to expect all eleven tutorials to be complete, we can aim for simplified versions of the essential tutorials:

• (Basic techniques)
• Make Cakes
• Build Combos

When one playtester went through the current tutorial, there were two topics where they pointed out, "Well, that was never explained to me." These are the two topics. Hopefully having these two tutorials helps players feel like they weren't kept in the dark.

[Poobslag]

I've split some tutorials into issue #665 and #666.

[Poobslag]

For more input-heavy tutorials, consider demonstrating the movement while showing a queue of inputs next to the piece. That way the player doesn't have to look two places at once.

[Poobslag]

Piece kick tutorials:

U pieces:

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T       T
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T       T

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T piece:

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P piece:

 JJJ
   J
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