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• • alastair
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  • 21 Jun, 2011
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  I'm a bit disappointed I have to wait till next year to see more episodes. I'm not sure if I should read the books or just wait forever for them to make the next TV episodes.

• • alastair
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  • 21 Jun, 2011
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  Why are tiledbackgrounds more efficient than sprites? Sounds like its best to use them for anything static.

• • alastair
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  • 18 Jun, 2011
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  so if you start making a project in HTML5, you won't be able to choose a different runtime/exporter later?

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• • alastair
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  • 17 Jun, 2011
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  Why, aren't they fine as they are?

• • alastair
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  • 17 Jun, 2011
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  My computer is basically dead yesterday. If anyone wants to donate hundreds of dollars to me I'd appreciate that, thanks.

• • alastair
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  • 15 Jun, 2011
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  Hopefully HTML5 canvas will get that colour filter added later, I love that thing.

• • alastair
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  • 14 Jun, 2011
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  Just create a new event sheet, and then for each layout event sheet go "inlcude event sheet".

• • alastair
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  • 13 Jun, 2011
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  Isn't

  this

  what custom movement behavior is for? But I guess it

  would

  be handy to have it readily available

  for

  everything.

• • alastair
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  • 12 Jun, 2011
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  When ever I feel like playing on XBL I just make a new account, you get a free month when you sign up.

• • alastair
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  • 12 Jun, 2011
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  I played it for about half an hour or so, but it was basically a boring cutscene that you move around in with some guy talking. And some easy "puzzles" from portal 1.

• • alastair
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  • 10 Jun, 2011
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  Your right actually, maybe its because I was using a lot more sprites before but it seems to work fine now. My FPS only goes from about 1200 to 550 when I use always for each ordering (2000 objects and not much other code yet). I guess its fine the way it is, sorry.

• • alastair
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  • 10 Jun, 2011
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  I get a lot of slow down looping through all the objects all the time, ordering them (using the for each object, and bring to front/back). But having a number system would help to slot things in easier, especially when your creating/destroying a lot. Using layers helps, but its not always appropriate because of how dynamic you may want the sorting to be, such as with an isometric game.

• • alastair
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  • 9 Jun, 2011
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  Dual thumb sticks is one of the best things about Vita. The sliding pad on PSP felt awful in comparison to thumbsticks.

• • alastair
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  • 9 Jun, 2011
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  How will Construct 2 do the Z ordering? Is it possible to have it number based this time, instead of just the "bring to front" and "bring to back", or is that the only way it can work?

• • alastair
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  • 9 Jun, 2011
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  I don't usually like handhelds, but this one has a decent screen size and some nice power. Wonder if it will run HTML5.