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Interview with Ben Chong
Founder of marketJS
One common criticism we receive with Construct 2 is that " you can't make money with HTML5 ". Granted that options for monetisatio... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 17 Jul, 2012
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Releasing early & often -
100 releases of Construct 2
Yesterday we released r99 beta of Construct 2 . Since we'll soon be releasing our 100th version of Construct 2 , let's take a mome... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 13 Jul, 2012
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The New Scirra Store
We're very pleased to announce an exciting addition to the Scirra website, the brand new Scirra Store ! We've simplified the proce... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 9 Jul, 2012
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New Competition - Favourite Features
It's been a while since our last competition so we've decided to launch a new one for you all — The Favourite Features compe... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 18 Jun, 2012
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Why the UK Government wants us to Airmail 1KB Text Files by CD
In the UK we have a tax called VAT ( Value added tax ), which Wikipedia describes as “a tax on the purchase price”. In other words... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 13 Jun, 2012
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Under the hood: Spritesheets in Construct 2
Construct 2 has typically exported object's animation frames as separate PNG files. Spritesheets - a new feature in the latest bet... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 29 May, 2012
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GameMaker has “No Competition” –
We beg to differ! HTML5's scalability
In a recent interview with Sandy Duncan (CEO of YoYo Games, the company behind GameMaker) he stated that “ We have no direct compe... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 28 May, 2012
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The Great HTML5 Mobile Gaming Performance Comparison
Update 11th June 2012: Added score for Playbook OS 2.1. It's literally 3x faster than OS 2.0, so the conclusion for Playbook has c... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 23 May, 2012
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Driver problems? Complain to your graphics card vendor
We've blogged about graphics card drivers before ( here and here ). However it continues to cause us pain. A constant rate of a fe... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 14 May, 2012
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Optimisation: don't waste your time
We regularly get questions like this on the forum: "Which is faster: Event A or event B?". Sometimes they will also be asking if a... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 9 May, 2012
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A new way to learn how to program
We've always intended Construct 2, our HTML5 game creator, to be useful for people who don't know how to program. You can be anyon... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 3 May, 2012