Ethan's Forum Posts

• • Ethan
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  • 25 Feb, 2016
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  For me graphics are the hardest part. Usually i leave them until the game engine is complete enough that i know i can finish the project and so can commit to spending all the time and effort they deserve. I have lots of ideas though.

• • Ethan
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  • 23 Feb, 2016
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  I'm a chronic unfinisher, but it's still in development.

• • Ethan
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  • 7 Feb, 2016
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  Really like the look of the last image, especially the player character. He looks like a cartoon version of Conrad Hart from FlashBack.

• • Ethan
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  • 17 Jan, 2016

  Fusion 3 is at least 2 years off, probably more. 2.5 hasn't been out that long and its still being actively developed with some features still being beta tested, their products in the past have had a notoriously long shelf life, i think 2.0 was about 8 years.

• • Ethan
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  • 16 Jan, 2016
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  In my opinion the scirra store has reduced the number of file sharing and new tutorials, people are selling their stuff now.

  But still its generally a helpful and pleasant community.

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• • Ethan
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  • 14 Jan, 2016
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  Have you tried Easystar pathfinding instead? It works with a tilemap.

  https://www.scirra.com/forum/behavior-easystar-js-pathfinding-for-tilemap_t129056

• • Ethan
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  • 8 Jan, 2016
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  There are a lot of cool improvements that could be added to the token commands, but i think they have been abandoned in favour of regex.

• • Ethan
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  • 29 Dec, 2015
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  Can't you do,

  For each miner

  repete digCountMax number of times

  Do the mining thing

• • Ethan
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  • 29 Dec, 2015
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  I think the closest thing you'll get then for now is perhaps the gameswarp shader mentioned in one of the posts.

  http://gameswarp.com/studio/construct-2-shader-effects-11-normal-mapping-effect/

• • Ethan
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  • 28 Dec, 2015
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  I don't have experience with this myself i think some people have gotten Sprite Lamp to work in C2.

  https://www.scirra.com/forum/sprite-lamp-software-that-creates-dinamic-shadow_t91062

  There was also Sprite Dlight, don't know what happened with that though.

  https://www.scirra.com/forum/sprite-dlight-support_t118649?start=10

• • Ethan
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  • 28 Dec, 2015
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  It's all done in various loops, so it appears to happen at once. You could do the same with yours. Put the mining code into a repeat or while condition.

  I made it a long time ago and it was never finished or improved, i'm not sure where the .capx is now, and it was before tilemap support, but here are a couple of the articles you might find interesting.

  https://gillesleblanc.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/creating-a-random-2d-game-world-map/

  http://www.nolithius.com/game-development/world-generation-breakdown

  Basically i created my own height map and set each height as a different layer of terrain, so the lowest height would be water, then sand, then land, then mountains etc.

  Maybe you can do a better job. It something i'd like to revisit and have another go at eventually.

• • Ethan
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  • 27 Dec, 2015
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  Cool work. I love this stuff. I remember reading the same article along with many others when i playing around with island creation. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/159885981/islandgenV1/index.html refresh browser to recreate.

• • Ethan
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  • 20 Dec, 2015
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  If you're hoping to get your game on Steam, here is an interesting article written by the data mining website SteamSpy. It covers geography, sales and genres, common misconceptions, and the way to succeed.

  https://medium.com/steam-spy/some-things-you-should-know-about-steam-5eaffcf33218#.2jqvt7s97

  I didn't realise the Russian market was so big.

  More of there articles. https://medium.com/steam-spy

• • Ethan
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  • 15 Dec, 2015
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  This looks really great guys. Can i ask why this is your last C2 game?

• • Ethan
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  • 11 Nov, 2015
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  Looking very professional alextro!