jwjb's Forum Posts

  • Ran across an interesting article Making $30,000 a month on Windows 8 apps, by Kevin Ashley in CodeProject | The Daily Build where it was also great to see Construct 2 as one of the platforms first listed in the Windows App Store.

  • Ashley, found your Make your JavaScript apps smoother .net magazine December 31, 2012 article quite interesting and informative, thanks.

    Joannesalfa, thanks for fixing the link which has now been updated in this post too.

  • Ashley, thanks for your quick reply and I can understand your thinking and hopefully it will be easy for everyone to navigate as there is a lot of useful items for learning and deploying C2 in the new project dialog.

  • The new features in the C2.109 beta release are awesome.

    One suggestion though centers around "The new template/example dialog replaces the old New Project dialog. Now you can choose from over 70 templates or examples right from Construct 2." excerpted from the download page and its organization of these 70+ items within the dialog.

    It would be great if there was "New Project Dialog Organization" i.e. these were grouped somehow where I have provide a quick off the cuff example below to give a gist of what I mean as it might be a bit overwhelming to a newbie or others to scroll through 70+ items right off the bat.

    Again, this is just a minor organizational suggestion and the example below is just for illustration purposes which could not be correctly formatted but is formatted correctly at my ideone page.

    New Project > Empty Project

                > Project with Common Objects

                > Retro Style Project

                > Facebook Project

                > Windows 8 Project

                > Mobile Project > Empty Mobile Platform Project

                                 > appMobi Project

                > Template > Platformer > Basic Platform Setup

                                        > Infinite Jumping

                         . . . . .

                          > Physics > Puzzle

                                     > Catapult

                         . . . . .

                > Example > Demo Game > Ghost Shooter

                                      > Space Blaster

                                      > How to make a platform game

                                      > Tutorial > How to make an Asteroids clone in under 100 events by Kyatric

                                      > Other tutorials ...

                          > Behavior > 8 Direction > Part 1

                                                    > Part 2

                         . . . . .

                                      > Bullet > Bouncing Balls ...

                         . . . . .

                                      > Platform > Part 1

                                                 > Part 2

                         . . . . .

    Thanks for all that you do in the continued and rapid development of the C2 platform and C2.109 beta release looks awesome.

  • era, thanks for giving us a synopsis of your working methodology. It seems like a good way to keep the wheels rolling as well as being more agile. I am still in the throes of learning enough of the mechanics to be able to do what I want to do, so maybe I need to step back and follow a more iterative process like yours until I become more proficient. Again, thanks for sharing.

  • Kyatric, will do and thanks also for clearing up the duplicates too.

  • Receiving the below server error repeatedly here when trying to post this "Great to have C2.r107 up and running, thanks for all of your awesome updates."

  • Really loving this edX free course, CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science - HarvardX, which from the introductory lecture video and class materials looks like a really interesting course starting October 15, 2012 and ending on April 15, 2013.

  • kenli, yeah Google's 14th Birthday, glad it was helpful.

    missykimmie, I have looked at TED, but had not used Mixergy before, so thanks. By the way, your link loops back to this thread and I am curious about the other six trainings and what they are.

  • I wanted to make a quick update that Freepository is no longer offering free accounts at this time but may offer new free accounts in the future so if you are interested just keep tabs on their website for any updates. Existing free accounts continue unchanged so if you already signed up before this change you should be fine.

    Incidentally, I have been using Freepository, TortoiseSVN and BitKinex for the past month and it makes it so much easier to keep your sanity through the many code changes, additions, branches, and such that take place when developing apps so I highly recommend using a Version Control System (VCS) to help you do all of this administrivia automatically.

    In fact I would estimate that I am saving on average from three to five hours per week using a VCS to say nothing of being able to very quickly revisit any previous written code within the VCS by going through the log files and comments or by just browsing the trunk, branches, or tags within the project.

    This ability to organize code will become even more important once an app goes live since it will allow easy organization of not only the many builds you might do for the different device types and such, but also when you make updates to the code for added functionality in future versions or just simply upgrading and improving the graphics.

  • shinkan, thanks for sharing.

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  • Gilden, impressive pack of graphics to be sure and it looks like from your post above the last day to pre-order at $79 is October 30, 2012 the day before the Halloween release date so I will keep this date in mind if it is in the graphics budget, thanks.

  • TELLES0808, just downloaded and installed the .air version of PyxelEdit and it looks interesting, thanks for sharing.

  • For those entrepreneurs in London, has anybody looked at the Google Campus which I heard about on Google Entrepreneur.

    It looks like a great place to get some great help for startups with many services for free as detailed on their faq.

    Hopefully, they will open other sites in the near future as it would be great to have a group of motivated and knowledgeable designers and other developers and entrepreneurs to meet with to not only get help with the how to's of creating great graphics for our Construct 2 games, but to help with the marketing and other aspects too.

    In the interim there is a startup course being offered for free through Udacity as discussed in the forum here, but it would be great to be able to meet up one-on-one too.

  • Tom, that is interesting to note and thanks for letting us know.

    Sorry for the outage everyone. It was our DNS provider, ZoneEdit. Not impressed with their service!

    Cloudflare is a great service, but it's a CDN and would not have helped fix the issue we just had.

    Everything seems up and running and OK now, we'll be taking steps to move to a new DNS service as soon as possible.

    I did take a look through CloudFlare's blog and they touch on them being in the top tier with an excerpt quoted below from this post and with the service being Free for the overwelming majority of its users it is just icing on the cake, so to speak.

    "A report from SolveDNS was just released that shows CloudFlare as the second fastest authoritative DNS provider, well ahead of companies EasyDNS, UltraDNS, and Verisign."

    From the chart in this report it looks like zoneedit came in ninth.

    In the end, it looks like the two services mesh with one another, but CloudFlare seems like it is "... one of the largest, fastest, easiest, and most resilient authoritative DNS networks in the world." at least according to their blog post and the SolveDNS August 1, 2012 report.

    Some of the other blog articles I looked at in no particular order which were helpful are below for your reference with many more available in their blog and throughout their site too.

    Never Deal With DNS Propagation Again

    CloudFlare's New UI: Managing DNS records

    How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One

    Again, it is great to have the site up and running again and I do not mind saying that one of the first things I looked at when it was down was doing a quick whois lookup and was gratified to see that the domain name was paid up until 14-Jun-2017.

    All kidding aside, it is good to be able to access the site and obviously I have no interest in promoting CloudFlare beyond saying for the sites I have used their services I have had no problems DNS and otherwise.