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Graphics card drivers: a lesson in software engineering
Construct 2 uses a hardware-accelerated Layout View while editing your project. This helps guarantee a snappy, responsive UI even... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 23 Jan, 2012
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Rotary Competition - Win some flying prizes!
As promised, we’re launching a new official competition today! The theme of the competition is “ Rotation ”. Construct 2 allows yo... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 7 Jan, 2012
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Early Adopter Period to End Soon
The early adopter period where you can buy a Construct 2 license for as little as $32 is going to be ending in 2 weeks. That means... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 5 Jan, 2012
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Image compression in Construct 2
Happy holidays all! We've still been working hard, and lately Construct 2's options for image formats on export have been signific... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 24 Dec, 2011
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Even more about audio licenses on the web
This is now our fourth blog post about audio on the web ( one , two , three ). We may be risking beating a dead horse, but we do n... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 21 Dec, 2011
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Why you shouldn't use MP3 in your HTML5 games
We are sometimes asked how to make an MP3 play in a game made with Construct 2 or how to import MP3s into Construct 2 itself. We d... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 16 Dec, 2011
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How we gamified our website
You may have noticed on our website that we recently added a couple of key features that are designed to encourage good content an... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 14 Dec, 2011
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Removing Mentions/Discussion on Competitors
When running an online start up or business where you have facilities such as discussion forums or a comment system you might be t... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 5 Dec, 2011
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Reducing Website Spam
User WGfunStorm recently asked on our forum how we keep the forum spam free without using a CAPTCHA. I've taken a bit of time with... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 1 Dec, 2011
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Introducing the Scirra HTML5 arcade
We're pleased to release our online arcade for all your Construct 2 games! You can visit the arcade by clicking 'Arcade' on the to... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 23 Nov, 2011
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Construct 2 vs GameMaker vs GameSalad vs Stencyl
In our last blog post we analysed Construct 2's HTML5 performance. As a follow up, we've adapted the test to run in some different... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 21 Nov, 2011