Construct is a web-based game development tool, with all its games powered by browser technology. Some people still think browsers are slow for gaming. We're he...
I think that is still the downside of construct. Effects keep dropping overall game performance and I don't believe they have a solution yet... Plain sprites: checked they work fine with several thousand (no effects); ticking in events, meh well.. since the release of new C3 runtime it runs slower than in C2 runtime. A real-game scenario should be the true benchmark and I've been using C3 for the las 4 years...