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nVidia hobbles WebGL performance on laptops
On dual-GPU laptops, nVidia appears to be deliberately disabling use of the faster GPU in browsers. This means on their systems mo... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 30 Dec, 2013
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Introducing Crosswalk: the new way to publish to Android
Chrome for Android is one of the best mobile browsers available: It has great performance, a full feature-set and great gaming tec... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 19 Dec, 2013
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Collision cell optimisation in r155
The latest beta update r155 introduces a major new performance optimisation: Collision cells. These can provide a huge performance... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 19 Dec, 2013
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More about asm.js powered physics
The latest beta r153 has a new option to allow you to select a new physics engine powered by asm.Js . On Chrome and Firefox it's 2... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 6 Dec, 2013
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Construct 2 now supports tilemaps
One of the top feature requests we've kept hearing from users is for better support for tilemap-based games. As ever, we listen ca... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 28 Nov, 2013
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New features in Chrome and Firefox for Android
HTML5 games on mobile is particularly important for many developers - and historically a little problematic. Fortunately on Androi... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 19 Nov, 2013
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Ideas for Construct 2's future
Occasionally we're asked what our roadmap for the future is. The reason we don't publish one regularly is often our plans change i... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 13 Nov, 2013
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Tech blog: Tilemap tidbits
In the latest beta update r149 of Construct 2 we've shipped a new official Tilemap plugin, with tilemap editor features and the ab... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 5 Nov, 2013
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The never ending issue of dual-encoding
I've ranted a fair deal about the problem of audio codecs in HTML5 already. Here's some older Scirra blog posts on the subject - n... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 30 Oct, 2013
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Business License Sale Now Running!
For a limited time only we are offering a 35% discount on Business Licenses and Business License Upgrades in our store! This sale... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 24 Oct, 2013
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Bitcoin Now Accepted in Scirra Store!
We're very excited to announce that we now accept Bitcoin in our store! The new checkout on Scirra.Com. Bitcoin is an online curre... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 21 Oct, 2013