KFC's Forum Posts

  • I was once asked by a friend from college, who is into web technology and game making, how I created a web showcase thingy with an animated character.

    Naturally I told him about Construct 2 and linked him to the program. After reading through the features he stumbled upon the much emphasized "no coding required!" part and asked me laughingly what that was about.

    It basically ended up with him dismissing Construct 2 as a learning tool or a fast prototyping tool at best.

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  • While technically you're not coding with Construct 2, I feel that the "no coding required" part is mainly used to market towards people that have some kind of fear or a stigma towards programming languages as something used by computer wizards that is not reachable by them.

    They won't be typing code but they will still have to understand programming logic. "With events programming becomes intuitive...". Events/behaviors/plugins are basically pre written chunks of code that the user manipulates. It helps by somewhat removing syntax as a barrier, but they'll still need to be able to "write" the pseudo code in their head to translate that into Construct 2.

    "Construct 2 helps you to learn how to think in a logical way and understand real programming concepts, making it easy for you if you decide to learn a programming language later."

    Understanding of math, arrays and other concepts used in programming as well as web technology is still required to create anything of medium complexity and up.

    That's one of the reasons why there are so many forum threads asking for help on "how to make my character have hp?".

    Not to mention that you can create your own plugins, adding an layer of extensibility to Construct 2.

  • thehen What's holding you from releasing on Android?

  • "It should be ready in the coming weeks and we will likely publish it under a MIT license so commercial use should be no problem at all"

    Forum post

    Great news for anyone considering Steam as a platform for their game.

  • Seems ok so far.

    The thing is the last few releases I've been getting less and less of those crashes, so give it a week, and if it manages to stay crash free I think it'll be safe to say it's been fixed, or at least greatly reduced.

  • Tomorrow I should be able to have a nice long session with C2, so we'll see then.

  • DrGreenThumbCAN

    The Auto-backup feature is used to, after saving, change your previous save file into a backup file, in case your latest save file gets corrupted.

    Backup folders is used to, after saving, create a copy of that save in a predefined location like your external disk or cloud server like dropbox.

  • I remember this example not being executed very well.

    Also adding touch support shouldn't be that big of a deal for anyone even remotely familiar with the program, and if you're not you should check some of the tutorials.

  • Also, if you have several objects that need a "health" variable, create a family, add the objects to the family and create a family instance variable. Much easier to work with.

  • Use instance variables instead of global variables.

  • Fairly new owner. Using 64 bit application and experienced program crash mainly when closing construct2. Lets say one third of program exits lead to crash. -v 146

    I've been getting those crashes for quite some time now.

    Can't reproduce it as it usually occurs after a long session and I can't pinpoint the cause, I guess it's just a minor nuisance though, as it crashes after the project has been closed (and after the save file before closing prompt is closed).

  • ArcadEd

    Have you invested anything in promoting your apps or did you just publish them hoped for the best?

  • There is no way to access webgl effect values directly to my knowledge.

    I had to track them with instance variables.

  • Many thanks.

    Could you explain why less and greater are working when one of the variables is a string with a number, but equal doesn't?

  • Basically using both "greater or equal" and "less or equal" I can get the same condition as "equal to", with the latter not triggering the events.

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