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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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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 7 Feb, 2015
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Scirra Store Winter Sale!
Get 30% off Construct 2 Personal Edition Licenses and Business Licenses ! Already own a Personal Edition License? Why not upgrade... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 30 Jan, 2015
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The future of Construct
Construct Classic was released in October 2007. Construct 2 followed in February 2011. Now we're coming up to four years and 200 r... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 27 Jan, 2015
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Using lerp with delta-time
Recently on the forums came up the question of how to use dt (delta time) correctly with lerp. This turned out to be a surprisingl... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 25 Jan, 2015
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Evolving Construct 2's export options
HTML5 has come a long way. When we launched Construct 2 in 2011, mobile support for HTML5 games was unheard of. Then non-browser w... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 19 Jan, 2015
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Don't let the government break TLS
I was very worried to read that the UK Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing for more Internet surveillance powers . In particul... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 13 Jan, 2015
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HTML5 gaming in 2014
We have always been impressed how fast the web platform is improving, and as an example of this it's interesting to review some of... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 23 Dec, 2014
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Browsers are not OS components
This is basically a rant about browsers that I need to get off my chest. I think it's crazy that some companies treat browsers lik... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 15 Dec, 2014
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How render cells work
One of the most important optimisations in Construct 2 is the collision cell optimisation . In short Construct 2 divides up the la... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 5 Dec, 2014
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Building welcoming and equal communities
At Scirra, we have always believed that everyone deserves equal welcome and respect, in both online and offline communities. We ho... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 21 Nov, 2014
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Chrome and Android push HTML5 further
While the recent iOS 8 update did a lot to improve HTML5 on Apple devices, Google just announced Android 5.0 Lollipop , and it has... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 21 Oct, 2014