As this website is home to all the tutorials, I felt obliged to include Grazer's example, or at least a readable version because that is the ultimate beginners' tutorial, but, with this website, when showing a tutorial not made by me, I will try to put as much as my own input, ideas, tips and opinion on this. This will help you build your first, default, simple platformer and will help you learn the basic foundations of flowlab.

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The first thing it tells you to do is set the gravity to 48, to choose a background colour, and then to click and create your first block. Without having to make any block yourself, it asks you to click the browse button to click a default ground blovk in the "tutorial" folder. NOTE, when making your own tutorial-free game, try NOT t use any pre-made sprites. It take away that sense of creativity and originality. There is some tutorials for Art on here too, so do try to have a look after the tutorial.

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You are asked to name the block, click ok, and then clone it across the first layer of the floor. NOTE, this is teaching you how to do a Platformer game, not a top down. And this is on purpose. You must first learn how to do a platformer before a top down, because 1. it's easier and 2. once you learn how to do a platformer, that knowledge is easy to convert to top down. Next, it helps you spawn a player. It next tells you to adjust the physics and again choose a default player skin in the "Tutorial" folder. 

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Next it asks you to click  behaviour bundles, and then the "Run and Jump". NOTE, this is for platformers only, as I have mentioned. When making a platformer game, the first thing you would code / drag in is run and jump. Of course, the jump force must be edited depending on how big the character is, and  dependent on the density the run speed, which are the 2 other numbers in the "Run and Jump" bundle. After that, it tells you to exit everything and try out your game. 

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When you have finished, you end up with a player that can run and jump, on a row solid objects which act as your floor. Well done, you have completed the tutorial. What was that? 5 minutes? Let's upgrade to basic.

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