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Service Workers are a pain in the ass
For years now, Construct 2 has used AppCache to allow its HTML5 games to run offline . However recently Chrome and Firefox have be... Read more
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Run your Construct 2 games as Xbox One apps
Yesterday at the Build conference Microsoft announced that anyone can turn their Xbox One in to a dev kit for Universal Windows Pr... Read more
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Hacking something useful out of WKWebView
We recently announced support for WKWebView in iOS apps with significantly improved performance, but some caveats about memory usa... Read more
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published on 7 Mar, 2016
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A better way to get WebGL on the Raspberry Pi 2
In January I blogged about a very hacky way to get WebGL working on the Raspberry Pi 2 . However Raspbian got an update in Februar... Read more
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published on 11 Feb, 2016
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How to get WebGL on the Raspberry Pi 2
Over the holidays, I ordered a Raspberry Pi 2 in to the office to play around with. If you've somehow not heard of it, it's a chea... Read more
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published on 6 Jan, 2016
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Web tech year in review: 2015
The web platform is moving as quickly as ever. It's interesting to take a look back over the year and see how web technology impro... Read more
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published on 31 Dec, 2015
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Understanding CPU and memory measurements
Construct 2 provides three main expressions for examining performance and memory: Fps , cpuutilisation and ImageMemoryUsage . Wind... Read more
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published on 2 Jul, 2015
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Why do events only run on one core?
Recently on the forum it's been asked several times why Construct 2 only runs events on one CPU core. I'm not sure why it's sudden... Read more
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published on 6 Mar, 2015
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Time to move towards secure hosting
There's a general movement to secure the web. That means encouraging the use of secure sites - where the address starts with https... Read more
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published on 27 Feb, 2015
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Answer your own performance questions with measurements
Often on the forums people ask questions along the lines of "Which is faster: Option A or option B?". There's no need to ask this... Read more
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