lionz's Forum Posts

  • I didn't know it was going to be browser based and with a monthly subscription . Then it's not for me. I'm moving on to other tools. I have previously tried few browser based tools and they are all slow, buggy and forgotten.

    I only got C2 because I thought there would be multiple exporters to various platforms that I could buy. I'm most likely still going to prototype with C2.

    Good luck with C3.

    Did you see in the announcements that you can use it offline and that they are going for quick one-click export for mobile (better than C2)?

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  • It's out of the bounds of the array so always returning 0, you need to set the size of the array.

  • It's looking cool, damn I wish I could do cute art like this. Guess I'll need to hire an artist.

  • It's called Saved Games services in developer console. It saves the game to the Google servers and they just access the save data when they login with the same account on a different device.

  • > The above is sound which is why I can make my joke now. Check if the player looks really knackered, if so then player has played enough days straight on the game.

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    This would cause a bug in Asia because people there can play for days straight without looking tired.

    Source:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoples ... years.html

    http://disposableworkers.com/?page_id=37

    https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/game ... -cafes-456

    Haha, I did read about someone in Asia dying after playing Starcraft for too long in an internet cafe, woops.

  • Did you try it? : D No it doesn't, unless it's going to be unpinned at some point and has to remain a bullet.

  • I guess you could put the requirement on the building object itself as an instance variable. This is how I would do it:

    So on the building object, an instance var :

    WoodRequired : 1

    Then global variables :

    TotalWood : 1

    Then to upgrade :

    For building, if WoodRequired <= TotalWood, Set ! to visible

  • There's a good post and response here :

    5. This is also very simple. Just export from C2 and upload the whole folder to your Steamworks folder and then everyone will get the update if you choose to make it public. You can in this step also just publish it in secret to your testers first. Savedata can be handled by cloud save easily or just locally. It will not be lost if you update the game even if it is in the game folder.

  • jeffige didn't you get tilt to work?

  • The above is sound which is why I can make my joke now. Check if the player looks really knackered, if so then player has played enough days straight on the game.

  • I think Alpha might detect the rotation of the device from a spin? Like when the device is moving between portrait/landscape. Just a logical guess here. Compass direction implies when the device is rotated flat but not tilted. I think beta and gamma detect the tilt direction.

  • I think gamma on touch is tilt left/right?

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    > It tended to be complaints from the countries where $99 is a huge amount...

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    Not my issue with it.

    > ...if my aim is to make money with games, then 99/year is downright laughably cheap!

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    But you only make money if you actually end up fully following through with it.. and how many times does that happen with even people trying to release something? Probably less often than not.

    For a lot of people with plans but not necessarily time/life stuff comes up (intermittent users), it's not a great value if you're not using it a lot of the year. (To say nothing of the ownership issue.)

    Even for a subscription scheme, the annual buy-in still seems to me a crazy/terrible choice. It's a bad fit for intermittent users. (This is not like Spotify or something where you can find time to use the service pretty much anytime). If not month to month, at least a 6 month option should be available.

    I didn't write that..

    So Scirra has said that there will be a free Construct 3 version. If I'm making games for a hobby or I'm just starting out, I will use the free version. And it's not like 99/year is an expensive hobby. Christ, I pay 50/month for my gym membership!

    And if my aim is to make money with games, then 99/year is downright laughably cheap! I feel like some people don't understand the value of these game creation tools like Construct. Hiring even a beginner level programmer will cost you over 2000/month easy. It really is amazing how far all of these game creation tools have come.

    That's my two cents.

    It tended to be complaints from the countries where $99 is a huge amount or large % of salary, which is understandable. There's always the free version though!