Ashley's Forum Posts

  • Thanks for taking the time to leave a message, DavidN. I'll lock this thread now, I don't think further discussion of the matter is going to help anything. I would recommend forum users here also recognise that the matter should be left now, for everyone's benefit.

  • Well the SDK can create objects - so I think we could just add a 'Spawn blob' action to Physics. It would make the instance that had the action called the central node, and spawn other node objects automatically hinging them together, with customisable number, radius etc.

    I don't know when this can be done, but I think its the best idea!

  • Thanks MikeD, but if I remember right you also mentioned it was "much worse" or some such strong opinion (I've said before, theirs is more polished, titlescreen etc, so is probably better, so long as you have the hardware to run it). It looked intended to provoke a reaction, which it did, because it caused the admins enough of a headache to remove a whole thread, which is pretty bad news. I'm glad you understand though.

  • Please everyone read this announcement:

    http://scirra.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=753

  • Hi everyone,

    On a serious note for a minute, I want to make something absolutely clear. Nobody is to deliberately attempt to cause flamewars or provoke reactions on other people's website, or any website for that matter. If you think this is a safe haven for such activity, you are wrong, and will be banned. This is your warning here, so from now on I will be banning immediately on suspicion of such activity, without warning.

    Even if swarms of spambots were to overrun these forums, that would still NOT be a sign for anybody to resort to such low tactics either; if anything, that is specifically the time you would display complete restraint, no matter how annoyed you may find yourself.

    Finally, nothing I say can or should be interpreted as a sign or instruction to do that: I condemn all such activity.

    Thanks everyone, I'm sure you understand, and remember - we're just here to make Construct as good as possible!

    Thanks.

  • The thread's gone now. Guys, I am deadly serious. Do not cause problems on other people's websites. I will start dishing out bans from now on if anyone is going to try that again, I've definitely been clear on this. It's stupid. Do not do it.

  • I don't condone that, MikeD, if you're NG2. You're just trying to start a flamewar again and provoke a reaction. As I said before, regardless of anything that's going on here, we don't need to cause problems on other people's websites.

  • Oh, check this out guys! Clickteam have retracted Ghost Hunter from their front page and news forum! The original thread still exists though, but is quietly sinking down the pages.

    Edit: original thread subsequently deleted

  • Yeah, Mr. Sneeze (now renamed to -Adam-) appears to be Adam Lobacz, one of the admins of the Clickteam-run Gamebuilder site, and also listed as an art and media contractor for Clickteam, which probably means they've paid him.

    I wonder why he has such a strong opinion? (Oh, did I ask another rhetorical?)

  • Hmm... just had a quick look and some rough ideas:

    If you add the node to a family, you can use that family as a separate way of picking objects in conditions (they keep different selected-object-lists). It's a handy way of picking different instances from the same object type.

    However, it's clearly complicated enough to warrant built-in functionality, IMO. Even if you pull it off via events, it'll be nontrivial, and easier to just tick the boxes for a blob or something.

  • Well, the question was kind of rhetorical.

    They obviously don't want their own users to know Construct exists. Actions speak louder than words - would they care enough to edit people's posts if they weren't afraid of Construct?

    Throwing yet more irony in to this, GameBuilder.info was set up by Clickteam seemingly to list all their competitors' tools (why not throw themselves to the top of the list, too?), perhaps to try to appear even-handed. Except Construct. So it's not as if they're afraid of anyone mentioning any competitor. Just me...

    There's a few more rhetoricals for you

  • So if I said "Hey, I can do that too", in regards to making a game creation tool, why do I get letters, phonecalls and emails about it?

  • Lucky for you, I wrote just the article for you the other day!

    http://www.scirra.com/wiki/TimeDelta

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  • I don't think any of us are in a position to advise Rikus on how to run his site - he is absolutely right in that we should be concentrating on what games we're making.

    The reason Clickteam should retract their endorsement of that demo (ie. take it off the front page) is not because of the 'wrongdoing' (nothing in actual fact has been done wrong, just poor ethics) - it's that endorsing it completely unweaves their whole argument when they were making legal threats against me. From now on, if anyone asks me about the legal threats, I can (and will) just say it was a blatant frivolous baseless threat, because they don't even play by their own rules, and I shall direct them to compare those silly little tech demos for themselves. So for them, they'd be stupid not to! If they leave it up, fine by me

    This has nothing to do with the Daily Click or their policies.

  • Well, to be honest, I don't mind they ripped off my demo. It's not like it was a substantial game. The only two issues are this.

    1. They didn't, and refuse to even mention Construct or the original Ghost Shooter demo, even on other websites, true to their censor-their-own-forums approach. Rejecting Construct from the Clickteam-run Gamebuilder site is another good example of this. If they'd just been honest and said "Here's a clone of Ghost Shooter from Scirra that shows MMF can also do this", I guess none of this would have happened.

    This is trivial compared to the next point though.

    2. In Clickteam's eyes, this demo is OK because the graphics and programming are original. The fact it's the same idea doesn't bother them. It made the front page of their site.

    When they were telling me (very explicitly) that they were about to sue me, the only problem they had was with the ideas behind Construct. The whole legal threats thing lasted a long time and they even rang my mum (??? I'm over 18 and can deal with this myself thanks). They obviously feel strongly about the protection of ideas.

    Endorsing the 'Ghost Hunter' demo is blatant hypocrisy and if they don't retract it, they are absolutely crazy.