Ken500's Forum Posts

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  • I'm making a simple weight loss tracking tool in Construct 3. I have the basic functionality working but I'd like to make it so that when I go to the site I can see what the other person entered in their text field and same for my text field, so they can see what I entered.

    I'm thinking I might have to use a database, ajax, or maybe the multiplayer object but all that seems kind of complicated for making what I think is sort of a simple functionality, just saving an input value and then setting the text field to that same input when I go to the site.

    Here's a link to what I have so far: http://weightlosstool.bitballoon.com

    Thanks in advance if anyone can help me out, I've been going in circles trying to figure this out so it would be a big help.

    By the way, bitballoon is a cool site if you need a place to host your games.

  • Thanks to you too Ken500!

    Mmmh... Ok, I understand better the concept. Nice idea but - in my just humble opinion - I'm not sure it's the better gameplay and design way for your game. For many reasons and especially because how to know where the click/touch area is without full screen? To complicate things further and for example, my workspace is multi-screen, so the cursor can be lost even beyond the borders.

    Could you tell us why the game is awaiting validation?

    Is there a (short or long) waiting period on Newgrounds ?

    Or are first votes enough to appear with the "C3jam" tag?

    http://www.newgrounds.com/games/browse/tag/c3jam

    Okay, thanks for the advice. Not sure why the mouse isn't appearing outside of the game.

    I've also made a version where there is a sort of flash light effect that follows the mouse with a black background but I eventually went with this version. I'll rethink this, maybe I will make it so you don't have to click down and so you'll always be able to see the cursor.

    I'm not sure how Newgrounds works exactly with the approval process and why it's awaiting validation. I'm guessing you have to get so many good star ratings before it is kept on the site. Also not sure how the C3Jam tag works.

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  • Thanks Sabastien,

    Hmm, maybe I should make it so you don't have to hold the mouse down as you do need to hold it down to see the circle cursor. The regular cursor appears again at the game over screen. However, I think it would be a little too easy if you didn't have to hold the mouse down.

    thanks again, and good luck on your goal of getting sleep

    Thank you very much jobel! I created the sfx using a free online tool where you can create and change sounds, can't remember the name of it.

  • I just submitted my game for the Construct 3 Newgrounds game jam. It's called Three Seconds. You can check it out here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/693969

    Let me know what you think, thanks a lot!

  • Thank you very much! I was wondering if I could use something like a tiled background or 9-patch so I'll try that.

  • I'm creating a sound based memory game where a note is played low to high and you have to remember the order of the notes played and the height of a bar which changes with each note played. I'm keeping it very simple right now and using twelve 50 by 50 px sprites filled with dark grey stacked on top of each other to create the vertical bar. I then set the initial visibility of each of the sprites to invisible.

    So I've been trying to figure out how I'm going to make each of the sprites become visible and go up and down randomly so the player can try to repeat the pattern matching each note as well as the height at which the note was played. So the player would watch and listen to the pattern and then try to repeat the same pattern by swiping up and down on an iPhone or clicking on a computer.

    I think I might have made it sound a bit more complicated than it actually is but hopefully not too much.

    I'd really appreciate it if anyone has any ideas about how I could accomplish this in Construct 2. And if you have a better way I could do this maybe without using the visibility, or any other question, comment, or suggestion, please let me know. Thanks a lot!

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