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    Close to finishing Arcanum but I decided to start on this:

    Trying to finish all the Troika Games.

  • this is a troll right?

    The flappy idea was.

    But I really, really like that game box art. Srs.

  • My idea for a horror game is bring back mechanics from the past such as limited item inventory and tank controls and see how they fit into a modern game setting.

    Seriously. First-Person and Over-The-Shoulder have been done to death these days.

    And speaking of horror...

  • We should also have a stinkers category for Construct 2 plugins that don't work...The "official" Google play services plugin hasn't worked for almost 2 years!! Then we can worry more about the quality of scirra's Arcade submissions....

    +1

  • You have to look at it like there are no bad games...

    Oh but there are bad games... Fallout 3 for example.

  • Well click bait banner ads are not the only advertising I use and there are many ways of getting advertising revenue besides those ads BUT that is how many game designers get their revenue and if a game goes viral it can bring in a lot of revenue and if that game is on Scirra arcade when it goes viral that attracts new visitors and gives them incentive to get a license.

    The way I see it Scirra Arcade is not the end goal but more of a place to test your game and show aspiring developers the possibilities.

    Would you play a great game on say an Android device or on Newgrounds and be thinking "Hmmm maybe this game is one Scirra Arcade to. I'll go play it there." ???

    I just don't see that happening any time soon. I can see people possibly visiting your game on the Arcade, , liking it and hoping the game is on Android/iOS too but never the other way around.

  • ...so I am now publishing on Itchio, Kongregate and other arcades because I don't feel the Scirra arcade is helping promote our games and has some unresolved server issues with CAPX files and loads get screwed up leaving my games in 404 limbo.

    While I agree with most of your points I understand why they wouldn't want to implement Ads anyway.

    Even if there were ads you would still need to have at least 100 visitors to accidentally click on them to be able to get what? $0.03?

    We can hardly attract players at the Scirra Arcade even with separate threads for all our games.

    Kongregate, Gamejolt, Itch, iOS, Android and all other platforms are good enough for that.

    I brought this up because I want more new people to try C2/3.

    Because right now seems like their target audience for C3 is the existing community which as of right now split right down the middle because of the subscription model.

  • I've visited the arcade a few times and have played only the Top-rated games.

    I occasionally visit the arcade looking for ideas and I don't want to offend people but to be honest there is a lot of shit in there. Games that don't work as intended, some that just require polish and some that are just plain ugly. I hate to be using that word but I've made games that have been called exactly that which forced me to improve my art style maybe not to industry standards but at least presentable to the average player.

    I understand that plenty of the games are just there for testing mechanics but I came across this quote from another thread:

    I know you want to sell C2 and C3 engines but the fact is that most people visit Scirra to see the games and that is how they judge the quality of the engine and after they try the games in the arcade they go and get a free copy or maybe a licensed version.

    and thought maybe the reason C2 isn't as popular as it should be is because of the amount of bad games. Maybe not the amount of bad games directly but the easy access to these games. Newgrounds has a quality control system where a game submitted is put in the judging section before it can be featured in the "New Games" section. I'm not proposing we delete the uploaded creations but maybe put them in a separate category named "test games" or something.

    Obviously we have to scale down the amount of votes required to put these games since the arcade doesn't get as much visitors as NG or Kong . Maybe we can go with an average of 3-star rating or higher after 10 votes and your game is published in the New Games category and the ones that don't make it go to the "Test Games" category.

    Do you agree the Scirra Arcade needs quality control? What would you propose?

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  • Yeah. I would love to stick with just AdMob and not bother with another plugin for another ad network. Hoping to get an answer to this. I know they released it for Unity.

    I'm hoping Josek creates a plugin because his Admob plugin still works and it's still the one I use today.

    By the way you game title "Ball Walker" reminds me of Paul Walker.

  • You can do a game jam, there will be the Bad Box Art challenge on gamejolt starting the 24 march. (ends the 27 march)

    Why is this image in their "Gallery of Trash." :

    http://imgur.com/y7ZqdYY

    This is a very nice box art. For shame.

  • . I need a challenge such as a (game type) in (time limit) or something along those lines. If you have any Ideas please let me know. )

    I know. Create a Giant Segmented Winged Dragon Coiled up Dog Turd version of Flappy Bird where the obstacles are a bunch of Match-3 Blocks and Zombies.

    ^

    100% ORIGINAL

  • This is really inspiring to see people developing something so beautiful from a minimally supported software.

    Being a poor motherfucker I probably won't be able to afford C3 when it launches so this really inspires me to try and create something good in C2 before even thinking of moving to C3.

  • Talking about all the different game modes - have you seen this (perhaps it was an inspiration?):

    Multibowl

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    (with pretty funny commentary)

    That right there is a perfect example of "Gimmick: The Game."

    I think if you're gonna do a Frankenmashup game then either:

    -Use different assets but keep the same rules/physics per level (Abobo's Big Adventure)

    -Different mechanics per level with the same art style. (Dumb Ways to Die)

    Pick one, not BOTH. I'm not a fan of the aforementioned games and especially not of a game that changes both art style AND gameplay every 2 seconds without at least giving you a chance to learn the rules. But that's just me.

  • Object(0) selects the first instance of the object.

    Object( Object.Count - 1) selects the last instance of the object.

  • I don't completely understand your problem but from what I can tell you want the camera to maintain a relative Y distance to the player?

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/k218vl2vyhjex ... .capx?dl=0

    Could you check this capx if this is what you mean?