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  • 25 Jul, 2016
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  I only wish mobile makers would get serious about increasing battery life, because as soon as you load CPU/GPU on these devices, they got flat real fast. It's more like they are made for idling rather than serious gaming.

  Besides that, C2 + Mobiles & PC = great currently!

  The "New Game, Continue" are blurry sprites I made on purpose, on PC it fades out after a few seconds of inactivity so the background battles come into play and it becomes like a stress test / screen saver.

  I ran it on a Galaxy Tab A (1024 x 768 resolution), which has terrible hardware and it was running really smooth! But I was hesitant to recommend it, knowing that there's so many older Android devices which can have issues with Chromium.

  Yea, everyone I know that plays Pokemon GO complains about batteries now, lol. This is why we are designing for PC for now...

• • gumshoe2029
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  • 23 Jul, 2016
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  Just finished the Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell and i loved it. I would like your thoughts on how you see it applying to Tycoon/Management Sim type games. I find it very difficult to apply many of the principles (lenses) to this type of game. Games like Sim City, Patrician, Tropico, Capitalism 2, Civilization etc., often don't have a very clearly defined end goal, don't really feature a meaningful story, have very complex game mechanics and seem to fly in the face of many of the books teachings about what makes a game fun for players. Yet, I love playing them and I know I am not alone. Indeed, some of them sell very well. What is your take on that? What would you change about these games to make them seem like more fun and less like work?

  We are in the process of building a civilization-like game. The primary motivators that these types of games access is ego, community, and control. In my experience, ego and control are the two big ones though. The fastest way to piss someone off is to tell them that they have no choice.

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  • 23 Jul, 2016
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  is it possible to do it without smtp?

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2513 ... using-smtp

  Why would you want to reinvent the wheel?

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  • 23 Jul, 2016
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  You are pretty close with your image. You just need to be able to track each frame and identify which Sprite it is part of.

  Then you need your actual board array set and just track which animation frame is present in each slot. Maybe look at using rexrainbow 's SquareTx and Board plugins for displaying your tiles.

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  • 23 Jul, 2016
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  You are trying to run your animation in reverse?

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  • 23 Jul, 2016
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  Put all of the backgrounds on different frames of a sprite, then just use Sprite.SetFrame(random(Sprite.AnimationFrameCount))

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  • 23 Jul, 2016
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  It is definitely possible, but you will probably have to find and integrate an outside library.

  Some other folks in the computer world have tried:

  https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/com ... avascript/

  https://github.com/mpberk/Pedometer

  https://github.com/leecrossley/cordova-plugin-pedometer

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  • 23 Jul, 2016
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  I am not sure this is possible. The user will have to manually delete the save, I believe.

  Are you using nw.js? Or raw JS?

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  • 23 Jul, 2016
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  R0J0hound has a draw_line.capx that did more or less what you want.

  I lost his post, but the capx is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-xiqK ... sp=sharing

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  • 23 Jul, 2016
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  Which server are you pinging? What is the domain URL?

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  • 22 Jul, 2016
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  Make sure you implement object oriented principles in your code. Otherwise you will end up with a tightly integrated system with unmaintainable code and where bugs propagate wildly through your code.

  http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definit ... rogramming

  https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/concepts/

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  • 20 Jul, 2016
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  You may potentially need a backend programming language too, like PHP, Python, or Java. Something for Construct to talk to.

  If you are hell-bent on connecting to a database using JavaScript, it is possible but not recommended.

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8576 ... he-browser

  PHP is by far the easiest server-side language to learn though and Google has tons of resources.

  https://www.google.com/search?q=javascr ... e+tutorial

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  • 18 Jul, 2016
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  Yea, what you are asking is called "maintaining game state."

  How we do this is with Java servlets that all operate on the basis of one database that maintains all of the game state. From here our API program dips into the database and gives information to each client.

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  • 18 Jul, 2016
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  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711 ... /1713#1713 has a good list.

  The books on that list that have been recommended to me by other software engineers include:

  Design Patterns by the Gang of Four

  Mythical Man Month

  Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel

  Effective Java by Joshua Bloch

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  • 18 Jul, 2016
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  RIght. You can do more than just distribute HTML files. We have an entire backend Java servlet system running. Around 20,000 lines of server-side code right now.

  SmartFox is an option, but I prefer AWS because they offer us more capability than SF.