Bad Wolf's Forum Posts

  • Indeed, Udemy is a very good learning platform. There are many excellent courses about Construct 2 / 3.

    Personally I like "Make a space pinball game" and the "Fish Frenzie" courses very much.

    What them also make a bargain is the fact that those Construct 2 lectures also can be used with Construct 3.

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  • Hello Laurence,

    Thank you very much, I will check the plugin section on the Construct 3 forum.

    Your help is very much appreciated.

    Chris

  • Thank you very much for your reply Laurence and your suggestions. Very usefull information.

    I cannot find the necessary plugins from RexRainbow any longer. When I click on the links, they lead me into oblivion. Also will those plugins work with Construct 3? I do not have any problem with following C2 tutorials in Construct 3. But I do not know anything if those C2 plugins will work in C3.

    Have a nice day.

    Chris

  • I played your Rotate game again. But I can only access one room. When I take the boxing ball, the screen get black and I only hear the music.

    Is this normal behaviour. After a while MalewareBytes reported to me that it blocked a "thumb" icon. It is a very annoying behaviour of MalwareBytes. Can this be the cause of the black screen?

    Thank you for your nice game, like I have said two months ago, it has very good potential. When there are more levels, I will like to play your game very much.

  • Hello everyone,

    I am searching for a good board game tutorial but does not find one. It does not matter if the tutorial is for C2 or C3. Regretfully the list of tutorials on the C2 section is so extensive that I cannot find any.

    Please, can you point me to a good board game creation tutorial for Construct?

    Thank you very much in advance, your help will be very much appreciated.

    Chris

  • I am using Google Drive to save my projects. When saving it takes a little more time but I did not exprienced problems. None of my projects where ever corrupted or damaged.

    However, here I have a high speed DSL connection. In Botswana I have very poor and slow internet. I will ask my wife in Botswana to open and safe a "dummy" project created from my largest project. If that is going fine, I think you will be safe. Our internet in Botswana is really poor.

    When I was in Botswana back in June, I had no problems at all using Construct 3 despite the poor internet. It seems Construct 3 does not put heavy loads on the internet connection.

    One of my main problem is that whatever I do, I cannot use the offline version. It simply does not reload (pressing CTRL + F5) anymore and seem to be gone after closing Construct 3. But it will be solved in the future with the standalone version which is fine for me.

  • I am using Construct 3 since it first was released. I do not do professional game development on this moment. However, I am following Construct 2 tutorials (in Construct 3) and I did not came across any showstopping bugs.

    During the last 2 months, I cannot remember any crashes anymore. On this moment, I can honestly say that I am glad I start using Construct 3 and never looked back to Construct 2. I opened Construct 2, just to keep it up to date but that is all.

    For users coming from Construct 2 or who are not used to Cloud computing, saving can be somewhat a problem. In Construct 2 you save your projects onto your local disk together with its assets. That is not really possible with Construct 3. When you are serious, you need to save to the cloud. You can only save your project file to the cloud, not your assets. To keep the full project organised, I create a directory for the full project. Then I store my project file into that directory and create an assets directory where I copy all assets (images, sprites, sound, music, ...) into. In this way the assets keep together with the project. However, you actually link your assets from the local disk. So it is important to synchronise the two. I am using GoogleDrive. Saving to the cloud is easy once you know how to do it. Also when your local disk crashes, you still have your work.

    I find it an advantage, using Construct 3 since its initial release because in all those months, I accumulated a lot of new knowledge and got used to it. The free edition is very limited, so it is better to use a subscription so you can use the full product.

    If you do not like the browser feeling, you can let it run from your desktop without the browser look and feel. Most of the times I do that, especially when working on my own projects. When following Udemy courses, it is much more handy to run it on its separate browser tab.

    Construct 2 is the past, Construct 3 is the future.

  • Welcome in the Scirra Community!

    Maybe you should read a good Construct 3 tutorial first.

    Search at for "Construct 3 - The Complete Game Creation Learning Course" created by Mihai Morosanu (Paala on the Scirra forum). This is the best course on this moment about Construct 3 which will teach you a lot of knowledge. Also the author share 3 games with his students.

    Hope this helps.

    Chris

  • Like I have said before, this is a great course and very much value for money.

    It is indeed the only Construct 3 course class which is very extensive. Now 3 months after the initial release, C3 improved very much.

    This course will surely put you in the right direction with Construct 3.

  • Hello Humanescape,

    Thank you very much for your reply, which is very much appreciated. I want to apologize for my late reply.

    You are correct about the file corruption when working directly in the cloud.

    I have no problem with saving the project file on Google Drive and then manually upload the assets to Google Drive. Anyway the project file has its own directory, which I already did with C2. All the assets and resources are in directory "Assets". I just have to upload the "Assets" directory to the same level as the "Project" directory. Then I have a complete similar structure.

    This laptop is from january 2009 with a 240 GB SSD drive which makes it fast enough to run Construct. It is in a constant lack of SSD space. So that is the reason why I cannot sync files on this laptop. Next year I will buy a ne laptop which will make a lot more possible.

    Thank you again for your reply.

    Have a nice day.

    Chris

  • I think I interprete Google Drive (Cloud computing) wrongly. I am not sure about how to work with Google Drive.

    Saving and opening a Construct 3 project is easy and secure. I have no problem with that. However I want to work completely on Google Drive. That is, when I need a sprite, I import that from Google Drive too.

    When I go to another computer which has nothing to do with my laptop, I open the project file (On Google Drive) and start working. Despite the laptop is not used, the resources must still be linked to the project.

    I looked up a lot of information about Google Drive but cannot find what I am looking for.

    I think a possible solution is synchronising the resources on my local disk with Google Drive.

    I nicely structured the content of my Google Drive in directories, so I can easily find anything back.

    Problem is that I am not experienced enough or have the necessary knowledge to find the solution myself. Also on the internet, I cannot find any usefull information how to use the Cloud together with Construct 3.

    I hope anybody can help me, finding a solution.

    Thank you in advance.

    Chris

  • Hi all,

    I save my project directly onto Google Drive in a dedicated directory. I put a resource directory inside the parent Project directory. Into the resource directory I place image and sound files.

    If I want for example import an image in the sprite editor, I double click the symbol and the import dialog opens. However, there is not way I can access the images inside their directory on Google Drive.

    Do you know how I can import those images and sound in a project all stored on Google drive?

    Thank you very much for your help.

    Friendly greetings,

    Chris

  • Like the others say, just doing it and see where you get stuck is usually the best way to success.

    I am following Udemy courses on Construct 2 but am making them in Construct 3. In this way I got a very good idea about how things are done.

    On this moment I am busy with the Udemy course, how to make a pinball game. A very interesting course even when it has nothing to do with the type of games I want to create (adventure, maze and puzzle). There is always something new to learn.

    There are many excellent Construct 3 tutorials. LuckyRawathLucky his tutorials I find them very good. Many Construct 2 tutorials are still very usefull with Construct 3.

    Personally, I like the creative process of making games. Especially the "thinking" and "planning" part are exited for me. In that stage, I come up with all kind of game play.

  • You seems in desperate need of a licence.

    Construct 2 free version can be used for developing games. Your layer and event options are limited, however I followed Udemy courses about Construct 2 where only the free version would do.

    Think about a good game idea which can work. Work that idea out and just bring it to life with the free version of Construct 2. Mission accomplished!

    Chris

  • Nicely done Tiradentes, wish I was a student in your class.

    Chris