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The unexpected complications of minor features
I recently tweeted about how adding seemingly minor features can unexpectedly snowball in to a significant amount of work. I thoug... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 25 Jul, 2020
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Performance isolation for HTML5 games with Web Workers
I mentioned on Twitter it might be nice to get back in to blogging while the world's in lockdown. So here we go, the first in hope... Read more
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  • ~10-16 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 27 Mar, 2020
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From WebGL to WebGPU in Construct
This is the second in a series of two blog posts about web graphics, WebGPU, and Construct. The first is A brief history of graphi... Read more
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  • ~11-18 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 24 Apr, 2020
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RTS update #2: Classes
Since the last blog I've added some very basic interactivity. You can click to select units, and click somewhere else to move the... Read more
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  • ~6-10 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 3 Oct, 2022
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More efficient and more advanced effects with sub-layers
There's lots new in our latest r276 stable release, but today we want to highlight one new feature: Sub-layers! At first blush sub... Read more
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  • ~4-6 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 15 Dec, 2021
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Will It Construct? The Raspberry Pi 400
Earlier this month, Raspberry Pi released the 400 , a compact keyboard with a modified Raspberry Pi 4 built-in. Designed to be a p... Read more
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  • ~2-4 mins read time
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 25 Nov, 2020
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New Construct Asset Store Launched
We're excited to have now launched our new Asset Store ! We've launched with over 300 assets for you to browse and use in your gam... Read more
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  • ~2-3 mins read time
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 23 Feb, 2021
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Developer Diaries: Tom-Ivar Arntzen
Welcome to another edition of Developer Diaries. This week, we're chatting to Tom-Ivar Arntzen, the developer behind the fantastic... Read more
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  • ~5-9 mins read time
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 20 Oct, 2021
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The surprising difficulty of resizing images on spritesheets
Spritesheets (aka texture atlases) are a common technique in computer graphics to combine multiple images on to a single image. Ho... Read more
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  • ~8-13 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 6 Jun, 2020
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Announcing Timeline animations in Construct 3
We've been working hard on a major new Construct 3 feature for some time: Timeline animations! You may have seen us mention it pre... Read more
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  • ~2-4 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 17 Oct, 2019
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Construct in 2019 - year in review
As we approach the end of another year, it's a good time to look back and review the year gone by. We got a lot done in 2019 and w... Read more
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  • ~5-8 mins read time
  • 4,091 visits
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 23 Dec, 2019