Ashley's Forum Posts

  • 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

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  • 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

  • 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.

  • Maybe one day - no plans for the forseeable future though. It would be nice, but I don't think mobile phones and DirectX really go together. Software renderer first for sure.

  • I know. I program and give away Construct for free. All I ask is that you don't get in to flame wars in the first place that indirectly damage the reputation of what I otherwise consider to be an excellent program and community.

    Too much to ask?

  • Call it unrealistic to not expect flamewars on the internet, but it's still no excuse to have them in the first place. That download has now well and truly descended from talking about the download to senseless arguing over two programs.

    One week bans for anyone else who comments on the download. You have a half an hour grace period to read this message.

  • Fun as you may find it, I'm worried the download will be deleted or all the comments erased because of all that flaming. That would be a shame, and then the logical thing for the admins to do is simply remove any mention of Construct in case it causes a flamewar, which means my demo goes down too (and TDC becomes like the Clickteam forums ). And that's a whole load of bad rep for us.

    To be honest, I'm not happy, guys. You know I only do this in my spare time. You think I want to deal with flamewars?

  • Good idea.

  • Oh sure, I think that too [Re: SuperV]. I just want the journey there to be smooth

    I'm going to go ahead and directly ask you to stop your post battle with 'Mr Sneeze'. He blames you for moaning about the demo, yet he made a point of moaning about my demo. This is clearly not a mind you're going to make any progress with, so forget it. What I think would be funny is if everyone goes and rates my demo 1 star, but we all rated their demo 5 stars. I get a kick out of stuff like that

    Edited to clarify post timing

  • But remember thinking it's better is your opinion, not fact, so it won't help our or anybody's cause to go announcing it, especially in sensitive places where you know it will provoke reaction. Do you see my point?