> I started out using game salad and to be honest I can't even compare them as game salad is way too limited and construct is so much more user friendly and powerful imho. I now have my own company making games for a living and construct is one of the biggest reasons that I achieved that. So I strongly recommend switching over.
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Ok! thank you
> 1. There are tons of questions about this. But I usually just make a 16:9 game and use scale outer or scale inner depending on what type of game it is and with some simple tweaks your game will fit any screen perfectly
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Yes this work, but if your game have circles, the stretch can be notorious
It doesn't stretch the screens with those options it shows more or less of the screen. So it scales perfectly without any distortion which makes the game look great whatever screen ratio.
> 2. Exporting is one of constructs biggest flaws. Exporting to steam and web is very easy and mobile isn't that hard either if you know how to optimize your code. But exporting to consoles isn't really possible atm without third party porting. You can release UWP on xbone but it isn't optimal. My game that is waiting to be released through IDtre@xbox is still waiting for the missing features in the engine and it has been a year now. But I've heard great news about simple porting for construct games so I hope we'll see some real console releases soon.
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This is my biggest fear
C3, can generate .exe? Yes you can export an exe file
C3, can integrate with Steam? included achievements? Yes, very easily, I use the Steam4C2 plugin though.
C3 export to iOS with out a Mac? or how? Yes, when you export for desktop you get windows, mac and linux builds.
> 3. Can't say much about that amount of physics objects as I haven't stressed tested it. But I had no problems working with physics with reasonable amounts of objects at least
> 4. Conctruct has letterbox scaling so making a pixellated game is no problem and you can scale it however you want remaining hard sharp edges as nearest neighbour is supported.
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OK!
> 5. Making multiplayer games is easy when you get the hang of it. I've used photon to make some multiplayer projects and it is great. I thought multiplayer was too complicated before but photon made it simple.
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OK! but you need program something outside C3? or anything are "include in the pack" Online multiplayer is included but there are free plugins that makes it even easier
> 6. You can do that easily with ajax for example. There are many different solutions and isn't hard at all.
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> 7. I use third party plugins for push notifications and it works great, not sure the official plugins support it though.
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> 8. C3 has visual list builders where you can make tables and stuff for your game so you should feel right at home with that.
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OK!
> This might sound like construct is all perfect which it is not, but it is improving all the time and is by far the easiest game engine on the market. I use unity and unreal but for all 2d projects construct is the fastest and easiest by far.
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> Anyway, that is my thoughts on it. I hope you'll end up happy whatever engine you choose. Good luck!
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congrats for 8Bit Fiesta! I´m looking in Steam.
do you have other games published? maybe one on iOS?
I answered your questions above up in the quoted are ^^
Thanks, I have made other games but 8Bit Fiesta was my first real commercial project. I'm now working on new bigger projects atm.
But here are some of my games and they are of varied quality as some are very old
PC
8Bit Fiesta: http://store.steampowered.com/app/382260/8Bit_Fiesta/
Pig Chick Blue Balls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=G6EU8zE-B-g
Mobile:
Kim Jong Run: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.linusappz.kimjongrun
I had more mobile games and iOS games as well but I removed them all when I started my own company as I was going to release them again under my company name but I haven't had the time. So kim Jong Run is the only one I have left and that is published using really old mobile wrappers so I don't know how the performance is on modern devices so do not use that as a reference of C2/C3 mobile performance