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• • Jayjay
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  • 30 May, 2013
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  Welcome to the forums Zantium, and although they say no "big images", you can paint your large background and break it into segments of around 512x512 and it should help performance (in-game it would still look seamless). It would probably depend on overall size of a level.

  Construct 2 is pretty fast and does have the ability to export to Windows EXE's as well as other platforms. You can check out the old Construct Classic though as well to see if you like the way games are made with Construct, but it's recommended to switch to Construct 2 as Construct Classic was retired.

• • Jayjay
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  • 29 May, 2013
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  For retro NES games I'd say:

  1. Kirby's Adventure

  2. Super Mario Bros 3

  3. Paperboy

  4. M.U.L.E.

  5. Bubble Bobble

  6. Duck Hunt

• • Jayjay
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  • 29 May, 2013
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  scidave I have a copy of VS2010, want me to try compiling the code for you? I haven't touched CC plugins in a long time though so I might need a little guidance getting it to work.

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  • 29 May, 2013
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  Hi Kicks, I believe that you need the full version of Prof-UIS to compile CC sadly, but there were some forum members who had a license and were willing to compile updates a while ago. (Was that you R0J0hound ? )

  Very cool to see people working with the source <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

  Not sure about the second part, but it would probably be more related to Prof-UIS.

• • Jayjay
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  • 27 May, 2013
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  It might be possible with the Canvas object, not sure if I've seen anyone else do that before sadly <img src="smileys/smiley6.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> It's possible to highlight a whole object for sure though.

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  • 27 May, 2013
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  Jase00 Yeah, I had always thought it was a file too <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle">

  Here's a code example for a server that echos/forwards messages sent to it back to everyone else from the Node.JS page:

  var net = require('net');
  
  var server = net.createServer(function (socket) {
    socket.write('Echo server\r\n');
    socket.pipe(socket);
  });
  
  server.listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');

  I made the server for Pixel People Online in Construct Classic do pretty much the same thing, so an echo server should make basic chat MMO's work well <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle">

  Edit: This is an echo server example: http://www.websocket.org/echo.html

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  • 27 May, 2013
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  Jase00, well there is the WebSocket plugin, which can be used to make turn based games, or games where player vs server is mainly happening and people chat, so a very basic MMORPG would be possible https://www.scirra.com/manual/153/websocket

  Edit: Still needs a websocket server, which can be made with node.js, or http://superwebsocket.codeplex.com/

• • Jayjay
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  • 26 May, 2013
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  pez263, ah you're likely on R1.2, the latest version (R2) was only available on the forums here: http://www.scirra.com/forum/topic48884.html

  You can also go straight to the download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/construct/files/construct/Classic/ConstructClassic_r2.exe/download

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  • 25 May, 2013
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  SoldjahBoy Looks like a cool forum, I like the project threads each having a screenshot bubble <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> and who knows, maybe being named IGF will pull more search results towards it <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

• • Jayjay
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  • 25 May, 2013
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  thejubbez that cow game looks awesome <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

  valdarko I like the art style <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

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  • 25 May, 2013
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  Another way of doing it is to set animation to: "AnimationStart" & clamp(random(5), 1, 5)

  This would set the animation to animations of names "AnimationStart1" to "AnimationStart5" and saves using variables <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

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  • 24 May, 2013
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  RecGames, there is an updated version here which might run in Construct Classic R2: http://www.scirra.com/forum/topic40033.html

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  • 24 May, 2013
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  winsonzhong for topics older than a few months it may be better to start a new thread asking for help. What would you like to do/have a cap file of?

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• • Jayjay
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  • 24 May, 2013
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  Should be able to do something like: Compare "ListBox.LineText(ListBox.CurrentIndex)" is Equal to "Testing text"

  Edit:

  Turns out I was wrong, CurrentIndex is when you're doing a for loop, here's a cap that works:

  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4714446/ListVar.cap

• • Jayjay
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  • 24 May, 2013
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  This isn't exactly what you were thinking of, but here's an endless runner example: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4714446/RunGame.cap

  As for wrapping the level, the easiest way is giving each object the "Wrap" behavior: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4714446/Starfield%20Test.cap