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Beginners can submit their advice on getting started here. Please share your successful first steps with the community.

Some helpful tips

Go through the Beginner/Torque Intro tutorial. Seriously, don't just read through it or glance through stuff, but actually go through it step by step and build your own demo game from the tutorial. It will really help. I know it helped me.

Once you have your own demo game that you've built, try and think of something simple to add. Here are some achievable challenges you can try:

• Make a new Torque Logo model that is blue instead of red. Make it give 2 points instead of just 1. You could even try making a yellow one that gave 5 points -- but make sure you hide it well! :)
• Play around with the level designer, maybe create a lake!
• Give the game a time limit to grab as many points as possible in the allotted time.
• Add some teleporters that warp you around your playing area.
• Modify the Torque Logo object so that it doesn't physically block you when you run into it.

What next?

You can get some great ideas of what to try next by browsing through the Torque EngineTechnology Resource Page -- particularly the Scripting, Example Code, and Tutorials sections. Remember you can also search through those resources to find specific things as well!