John Cutter's Forum Posts

  • Is this a new issue? I'm seeing it in my new game, too. Normally, when I search for a problem I'm having I find messages that are often 7 or 8 YEARS old. This post is only about a week old...

    Does it matter whether web worker is on "auto" or not?

    The proposed solution may not work for me.

  • Same for me. The message is pretty cryptic. I'm not finding a lot of information about: "ES2015 support".

    Hopefully, this is just a temporary glitch?

  • I probably should have waited until Monday to post this. The game is easiest on Monday and gradually gets harder as the week goes on. Friday/Saturday/Sunday are the hardest puzzles!

    Here are some tips for play:

    1. If there are longer words in the puzzle, start with them

    2. Use the difficult letters first (i.e. "z", "x", "j", etc.)

    The goal is to use up all the hard stuff early, so that when you get to your last word you will be left with easy letters like: o p s and t. (You can make lots of words with those letters.)

  • You can try my daily word game here:

    https://worddad.com

    To play, simply drag the letter tiles to form three complete words. If you have any thoughts or suggestions, please let me know!

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  • Yep, this turned out to be the problem. Glad it's finally fixed. Sheesh.

    They say that it's a poor carpenter who blames his tools, but I'm very guilty of accusing Construct 3 of not working properly. I've done this multiple times over the years and it always come down to an error that *I* made. <sigh>

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  • Quick recap: My new web-based game is running on most computers and mobile devices, but two of my Beta testers reported that the game isn't running on their iPhones. (One is an SE, I'm not sure about the other one.)

    I've been extensively testing the game with my iPhone SE tester and I think I have figured out the problem -- though I have no idea why it is happening.

    MY COMPUTER:

    Date.ToLocaleDateString(Date.Now) = 7/20/2023

    TESTER'S COMPUTER:

    Date.ToLocaleDateString(Date.Now) = 20/7/2023

    The dates in the array are in this format: 7/20/2023. So this code may not be functioning properly:

    Basically, I'm iterating through the array looking for "7/20/2023" but I'm finding "20/7/2023". How do I make sure that ALL phones are using the correct date format?

    NOTE: Hmm. Looking at my message above the problem seems sort of obvious. I am using "locale" date string. I tried using "date string" but that didn't seem to be working the way I thought. Guess I need to try it again.

  • In the output message I posted above, most of the lines start with "INFO". Does that mean that they are only informational and wouldn't actually stop the program from running? (Including the line about opus and the 404 error?)

  • I sent some instructions to my iPhone SE tester:

    In Chrome on your iPad or iPhone, go to chrome://inspect and then press Start Logging.

    Now go do your thing in another tab, keeping this tab open.

    Come back anytime to see any and all console outputs!

    Here's the message he saw: (my game doesn't have any sound or music)

    worddad.com

    LOG[Construct] Resuming

    worddad.com

    INFOFailed to fetch Opus decoder WASM; assuming project has no Opus audio. Error: fetch 'https://worddad.com/scripts/opus.wasm.wasm' response returned 404 Not Found

    INFOMade with Construct, the game and app creator :: construct.net

    INFO[C3 runtime] Hosted in DOM, rendering with WebGL 2 [Apple GPU] (standard compositing)

    INFORegistered service worker on worddad.com

    LOG[Construct] Suspending

  • I'm willing to try anything, but one of the testers said he saw the help screen and "PLAY" button. Also, the help screen had the correct version number and date.

    If there was no dictionary file then those events should not have run.

  • I think the iPhones in question are stopping somewhere during Initialization. Can anyone see issues with my events?

  • I'm getting ready to launch a daily word game. I have tested it on a PC, several iPhones, and a couple of iPads. The game runs flawlessly on all of these.

    Here's the link: https://worddad.com

    I did a kind of Alpha test on Sunday and had 5 people try my game. Two of them reported that it isn't running on their iPhones. (One is an SE... not sure about the other one.)

    I just spent two days re-doing a bunch of my events. Unfortunately, it's still not working. I had one of the testers clear his cache and it still isn't working on either Chrome or Safari. :-(

  • I cleared my browser history (cache). So far I haven't had the problem happen again, but it still needs more testing.

    Thanks for the suggestion dop2000. :-)

  • Thanks, JASEOO. I should have included that with my original post. (Just added it.)

    Here's some info about my project. Though I'm not sure if this is including my dictionary which has nearly 15,000 words in it. (This is a .json file that I load into a dictionary.)

    Project statistics

    Name: MyGame

    Layouts: 1

    Event sheets: 2

    Total number of events: 221

    Total number of conditions: 231

    Total number of actions: 449

    Total lines of JavaScript code: 0

    Object types: 57

    Families: 2

    Estimated peak image memory usage

    For each layout, the image memory requirement is estimated by summing the memory usage of the spritesheets used by objects on the layout. The peak image memory usage is the size of the largest single layout, since the runtime only loads one layout at a time.

    Estimated peak memory usage is 18 mb due to largest layout game_layout

    Top 10 layouts by image memory usage

    game_layout: 18 mb

    Top 10 event sheets by event count

    Event sheet 1: 111 events

    Functions: 110 events

  • Just a quick followup...

    There is a search bar in the objects dialog. So I tried to search for one of my objects. That didn't work, but then I noticed that I can't delete the last letter in the search bar.

    EXAMPLE:

    Using the dialog box above (which was empty), I tried to search for "function". Nothing appeared, so I deleted the search term.

    Each letter deleted (with backspace), as it should, until I got to the final "f". I can't delete it. Not sure if this is related to my problem somehow or not.