Advanced tips for a serious Project.

Hello there dear C3 community,

I´ve been creating games for a long time now and I was using C2 around 4/5 years ago.

I just created some simple games for friends and some for the ios and android store, but nothing really hard to make.

I came back and decided to start a serious project and I wanted to ask some experts or people that created big projects, if there is something that I´ve to do before even starting creating my game? like for example I never used families and discovered later that they are super important and timesaving, are there other things liek that that can save my time and before it becomes a mess of sprites and stuff?

Would like to hear some useful tips, thanks for your time :)

Functions are very useful to make event sheets neat and clean.

Arrays helpful to store huge data.

Dictionary is helpful to save all variables data at once.

Read about families, containers, functions, global layers, arrays, dictionaries, timelines etc. Knowing how to use these features will save you many days/weeks of needless work.

Create families early! If you are adding your first enemy, create Enemies family straight away and add behaviors and instance variables only to the family. Upgrading a bunch of objects to a family later on will be a difficult and boring task.

Name your objects properly and organize them in folders.

Comment your code.

Avoid using hard-coded values and "magic numbers".

Back up your work at least once a day.

And finally, check out this post with great tips from Fib:

https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/order-thinks-develop-game-153820?kws=placeholders#forumPost1016359

Thanks, these are some useful infos!