App Development question

Hi all,

I did a quick search on the forums before posting. Didn't see anything that specifically addressed my question.

I've been a Scirra fan for about a year now, and looking for my first opportunity to leverage Construct 2 for an actual project. Turns out it's harder to design good games than I originally thought, so I'm thinking of leveraging some work I've already done in the past to get me started.

The thing is, this work I have completed is not the kind of game others are using Construct 2 to make. In fact, it's not really a game, it's a simulation of a casino game. I'm not even looking for flashy graphics or animations (although adding them later could be neat), I just need input boxes and formatted output and a whole bunch of calculations to happen on the back end.

Currently, the simulation is written in VBA (Excel is the front end), and I would like to convert it to HTML5 so it is in a universal format that I can either publish or convert to mobile app or desktop app. Also, I want to roll up my sleeves and get a project under my belt with Construct 2.

Am I on the right track by using Construct 2 to accomplish this, or am I trying to fit a square peg in a round hole? Also, I'm a pretty noob programmer at the moment (hence the VBA), so I like the idea of using Contruct 2 for this.

Thanks for any input you can offer!

You can probably make what you are trying to, but i'm not 100% i've seen the type of "simulation" you are trying to make. The front end stuff of course could be done with C2, but im not 100% sure of some of the backend stuff. Either way you could still connect to if you needed to through various different ways using C2 created front ends.

Thanks for the reply, justifun. I may just take a crack at modeling this in C2 and see where I trip up. Then perhaps I will have better questions to ask.

All I really need is a simple UI, the ability to track about 125 global variables (or perhaps leverage a database), and perform a large amount of conditional checks (If/Then) for each run of the program. The calculations themselves are very basic.