Hide Interstitial Ads?

I've got an issue where my interstitial ads gets delayed when appearing on my main menu, and so sometimes the ad will appear during gameplay and thus interupting the game.

I wanted to try and remedy this issue by hiding the interstitial ad at the start of my gameplay layout so there are no interruptions, but i can't find a way to do so.

Is there a way to hide interstitial ads? I know there's an action for hide banner ads, but nothing for interstitial ads. Is there a way to go about doing this?

Thanks

Hi tomhaiger - I have no experience of these ads yet. Where do they originate from?

hundredfold Interstitial ads are just full screen ads, i'm sure there's a more technical explanation to that, which someone else could better explain But thats all interstitial ads are as far as i know.

Thanks — Do you program these in yourself? If so, do you control when and where they appear?

I'm using Admob Ads to create my ads in game, i should have mentioned that in my first post.

Admob Ads is an object which is built in to Construct. To add this to your game, just right click and go create new object, and then go to the monetisation heading and select Admob ads.

You can control when and where they appear through events, but i'm having a little trouble with it as i'm getting a slight delay as to when they appear.

This delay i'm getting means that sometimes the Interstitial ad appear during gameplay, which is quite intrusive. I wanted to create a work around for this by hiding the Interstitial ad during gameplay.

Bump. Can anyone help?

I'm not sure if it'll work, but you could try setting your ads through global variables? You could do something like having your variable set at 1 at the beginning to show ads and set it to 0 during gameplay.

I haven't tried this , so I don't know if it'll work but it's a suggestion.

To be honest, I would have thought that the option to hide interstitial ads would be available seeing as there is one for banner ads, but then again I don't know much about implementing these things into Construct 2 so who knows really.

Thanks, I'll give it a go and see what happens.

Make sure you preload the interstitial so there should be no delay showing it. Don't attempt to show it until you check for On interstitial received. Only show it at the end of the game where timing doesn't matter.

codah Thanks, thats actually helped. I've never used preload interstitial before as i didn't notice a difference, but i've noticed that if i set preload interstitial on the layout before i want my ads to show, it works without much delay.

I've got just a few more thing i need help with -

1. After using preload interstitial, the interstitial ads don't show up all the time, only around 3 out of 5 times. It used to show up all the time before using preload, albiet it would be delayed as mentioned previously.

2. When using preload banner, for some reason when the banner loads it's a smart banner, even though the size of my banner that i selected was 'banner'. After a while it does change to the correct size but is there a reason why it switches to smart banner first?

3. Last thing is, does the preload action usually affect the gameplay if it's used at the start of that layout? I have a interstitial and banner ad shown on my game over screen, and when i use the preload interstitial and banner ads, the ads show up how i want which is great. But i've noticed that my game does lag when using the preload action on the gameplay layout, which wasn't the case before using this.

Thanks

Tom are u using these ads for Windows Phone? I have searched using Leadbolt ads for Windows Phone in Construct 2 using iFrame plugin but i couldnot do it. It doesn't work. Are u using Admob? If you how can i use it for Windows Phone in Construct 2?

lordvader I'm using it for Android right now, but i am planning on making it for Windows soon. I'm doing it through Crosswork and i'm using Admob for my ads.

I can't really help with ads for Windows as i've not used or tried it yet, sorry. I'm sure someone else here will help you with that though.