Review: Eight Ways To Make a Bad Tutorial

Learn to make good tutorial from The Designer's Notebook: Eight Ways To Make a Bad Tutorial:

• Don't force user to do tutorial (especially not when they restart again)
• Don't cause a lot of reading and pressing next
• Describe looks and location of button/menu by picture or highlighting them on screen
• Make sure tutorial flow doesn't go missing halfway through leaving the player guessing what to do next (the magically reappear again)
• Make sure a mistake doesn't cause long repeat of the tutorial again (ability to skip perhaps?)
• Don't encourage your player like a four year old (good job for clicking A); or humiliate them.
• Ability to skip tutorial when he had learned enough (perhaps chapterized the tutorial?)
• Tutorial is required, period. Though it can be simple.
• Remember to try your tutorial with complete novice.