Tip: Always back up your projects

Hi everybody, this is a simple tip especially for newbies... always back up your project files

You might say "I finished my game", "It was just a test game", "the art was so terrible, I'll never use it again"... but you never know when you'll need them.

I discovered "no programming game making" two years ago and made this test game(BounceFighters in case you want to check it out), it was for pc, kind of a cross-over between pong and street fighter (as crazy as it sounds)and just today decided to re-make it HTML5 with the powerful features of Construct 2, but after one hour I gave up to the idea that my files were gone.

Too lazy to do the design again, I said goodbye to my remake.

So again, for all of you that have just finished a game... BACK UP!! BACK UP!! BACK UP!!!

Seconded. I don't want to talk about it.

Obligatory link to Keep your work safe with Construct 2's backup options.

Ever since the game I've been working on turned serious, I've been backing it up in like 3 different ways. There'd have to be some serious divine intervention to knock out all 3 of 'em. <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

TLDR of Ash's article: Use the "Save As" command more than you use the "Save" command, and make sure you save it to something like dropbox.