Paradox's Forum Posts

  • I never even noticed Nokia's Dev site until now. It's so integrated with Windows 8 Apps, I don't know how I missed it. I wish I had seen it sooner.

    They add challenges all the time, with points as prizes you spend on rewards, like gift cards or Nokia phones.

    I'm pointing it out because one of the current challenges is referrals. "Each friend you introduce as a new user to DVLUP who completes an App or Upgrade Challenge will score you 500 PTS."

    So if 2 people sign up and take part, I can get a $50 Starbucks gift card.

    http://www.dvlup.com/paradox/invite

  • You may be able to do my solution with bullet behavior. Which is much faster than physics. It has gravity and bounce calculation too.

  • I use 8.1 on my laptop, it works great with Construct2. And I believe Ashley codes Construct on a Win8 machine. I think you will be fine.

  • I probably would have cheated and put an invisible side view grenade just off screen, bouncing on invisible ground. Then used it's Y distance from the invisible ground to set the scale of the actual grenade, the X along the invisible ground to determine the distance traveled.

    edit: (in other words, the x would adjust the speed to match the scaling from the Y, so it would be a literal translation of the motion from the top view.)

  • Here's a link to the sneak peek of the new arcade:

    http://www.scirra.com/forum/new-arcade_topic75147.html

    I haven't seen anything else about it since August, so xmas would be a surprise.

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  • Oh crap. Sorry, that was still my original DL, and I used the 64 bit so never downloaded the 32 bit fix.

    I replaced the file in my Dropbox. (it's uploading as I type this)

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85412219/construct2-r152-setup.exe

  • Right clicking on the sprite and selecting "Copy" makes a new instance of that same sprite.

    Clicking "Clone" makes a whole new sprite with the same settings as the first one. and deleteing the first one won't delete this one.

    You can see it won't have the same name in the object list. it will add a number to it.

    And on picking...

    It looks like you might be using a variable compare to pick, and variable compare doesn't pick.

    basically, if the little icon next to the event is a gear, it's not picking.

  • Here is 152 in my Dropbox, can you get this one?

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85412219/construct2-r152-setup.exe

  • It's a bit squirrelly, sometimes it gets stuck, but seems to still keep count somewhere.

    For example the Share icons for two of my games:

    Pucked says: 179

    Chicks says: 1026

    In the arcade the counts are the opposite:

    Pucked says: 5926

    Chicks says: 269

    (Orbital is off by 900)

    My games in the Top list haven't changed position in months.

    But we are all waiting on the new arcade that is currently in the works. So we haven't been concerned about it.

  • I use Construct2 on my Toshiba satellite L755 and it works, however I have AMD Radeon graphics.

  • Facebook offers a link to a freehost when you sign up, but I don't know much about that.

    Clay.io will host it for you and they have a plugin that offers more Facebook features.

    Here's on of mine hosted that way:

    http://apps.facebook.com/puckedgame/

  • I'm not at home to check and see if Zack0Wack0's original storage plugin is the one now included and whitelisted. But I wanted to ask if you are using the "Scirra Arcade export" when you export the game?

    I thought that might be a possibility.

  • I liked my solution for my Chicks game, I'll probably use it again.

    You have to save as many chicks as you can in a level. There is a minimum you have to save to unlock the next level.

    However you only have the chicks you saved in the previous level to play the next level with. If it's too hard, come back and play the previous levels again, to get more to play with later.

  • I'm in the middle of trying to re-size a tough one right now.

    Already re-sized Pucked and Orbital Bomb-Bounder, and those are now on the arcade. But my Chick game is a challenge. Lots of parallax.

    I will wait for your fix to try before I fight it anymore.

  • Tom I think I noticed something that you may already know, but if not could be helpful.

    Last night I suddenly had 6 badges for downloading 25 updates, instead of 2. I know the badges page triggers the recalculate script, and it fixed it back to 2. But I appear on the awarded page twice now.

    So I gather everytime someone runs the recalculate script, it's updating the award pages as if you were just awarded all those badges.