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  • 23 Jul, 2008
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  Some better wording could be used there IMO.

  Definitely. The aim of the tech demos is to demonstrate their technical features - not particularly their creative features, which is generally what makes a game fun. Perhaps it could be argued other games are not as technically advanced, but it would be crude to lump this in to overall better or worse. These new technical features could be applied in creative ways to games to make them more exciting or immersive (which I suppose SircatmaN might have been trying to get at), but as we've said, nobody's really working on big games at the moment. I expect that to change at 1.0.

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  • 23 Jul, 2008
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  You're probably trying to play a nonexistent file. Did you get the filename right?

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  • 23 Jul, 2008
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  It's on the todo list - at the moment the Layout object can't show a portion of the same layout. I guess this would be a kind of Viewport object - I should be able to make it able to show offscreen parts of the layout too, with custom scaling and rotating, which would be pretty cool... It's a good idea, and would allow splitscreen too.

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  • 23 Jul, 2008
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  It's true nobody has really finished any games yet, and that's probably also because while we're in beta emphasis is on developing Construct - fixing bugs, reporting issues, coming up with feature ideas and such, and as Rich pointed out there are known file corruption bugs we still need to fix.

  The only problem I have with construct is coming here and seeing, "zomg mmf2 is crap" and whatnot.

  An opinion about MMF2 is the opinion of an individual. How is that a problem with Scirra or the Construct program? It's not. It's certainly not my opinion, and I doubt it's the opinion of the majority of people here. So please - don't upset yourself by generalising the opinions of a single person to an entire site! I don't think anybody's even explicitly said that.

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  • 22 Jul, 2008
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  manontherun is probably right, the debate threads are mostly a waste of time - at least the latest one is civil! Remember the rules. Most of what I read in such threads involve people stating something incorrect, not being challenged, then using it as weight in the argument, so no point wading in there.

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  • 22 Jul, 2008
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  You can't yet - it's on the todo list!

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  • 22 Jul, 2008
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  Great job with the water in that example, looks excellent

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  • 22 Jul, 2008
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  Oh, guess he would. Ask him what his graphics card is. It might be easier to get to the bottom of this if he posts to this thread directly himself.

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  • 22 Jul, 2008
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  That, and more, is talked about in bumpmapping on the Wiki.

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  • 22 Jul, 2008
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  It's a good idea - on the todo list.

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  • 22 Jul, 2008
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  The admins have stated previously they'd accept Construct games, but I don't think anybody's finished one yet!

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  • 21 Jul, 2008
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  Try adding it as a resource in the resources bar.

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  • 21 Jul, 2008
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  Ask him to paste here his video hardware details - use this tool to do it quickly. That error code means 'not available' according to my docs, so my guess is his computer is very old or cheap or lacks any video hardware whatsoever, so it can't run DirectX games.

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  • 21 Jul, 2008
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  Welcome, and I hope you enjoy using Construct! Don't forget we have a bug tracker you can report any problems you find on.

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  • 20 Jul, 2008
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  I think you have to download the platform SDK separately for the express editions.