Rable's Forum Posts

  • I personally had my game rejected by Hatch because their streaming engine couldn't use Cordova, but I don't think there's much to do about it. (?) Also that's not a publisher but a platform owner.

  • Hi everyone,

    I've read this on the site linked to a Google Play email received this morning:

    Improved support for large apps: you can now upload large app bundles with installed APK sizes of up to 500MB without needing to use expansion files. This feature is in early access and we will roll it out to all developers in the future.

    Source: android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/playtime-2018.html

    Does that mean we are not restricted to 100 Mb anymore for Google play!? That would be huge as I was just about to start reducing my 165 Mb APK to less than 100, which would have been a long and painful process.

    Anyone has more info about this ? Any idea how to use it right now (as they are speaking about an early access). Sounds like an excellent news for all Construct users as, as far as I know, there was no way to use APK expansion files with Construct.

  • Thanks a lot for your reply. It's an excellent news that this is possible to do!

    But I never wrote a single Javascript line in my life... ^^' Can someone help me to make that? If it implies some work on your side, send me a PM or an email to rablogameswcb@gmail.com with your price.

    Thanks!

  • After testing the same code (above) exported with C2 and then with C3 on the same mobile device, I've got the following results:

    C2: 20 seconds black screen before the default loading screen appears

    C3: less than 1 second...

    Well, first of all congrats to the Scirra team for solving the problem in C3!

    In the meantime, I'm kind of stuck with C2 on this project and that's a real problem. Is there any way to replace the black screen at least with a cool still image form the game?

    Is it possible to do this outside of Construct 2, by manipulating the exported code?

  • Thanks — !

    Very useful!

  • Very interesting, thanks for the idea. This will definitely ask for some custom code as I always use the same array in all levels, but it's already better than copy pasting into a word file.

    What would have been still beter is a word count for the event sheet in the editor, but I believe I'm hoping for too much here. ^^'

  • Hi everyone,

    Everything is in the title. I'd like to count the number of words in my project (for translation), but I'm using arrays to enter every line of text.

    The obvious way is to copy-paste every line in MS Word, but as there are around 30-50K words in my game, it will be a very long process...

    So can this be done automatically in Construct 2 or Construct 3?

    Thanks!

  • Ok, thanks for the info.

    Does anyone knows if that black screen could at least be replaced by a given image or something? I guess that has to be done outside of Construct.

  • Thanks for your help Ashley , I think I figured it out.

    Here's the APK of a project which only has one small sprite, no sounds, but about 7500 big events, which are on an event sheet which is actually never played.

    APK: drive.google.com/open

    I first filled the projects with lots of big images and lenghty sounds, but the loading time was perfectly ok. But as soon as I added lots of events, the black screen appeared for quite a few seconds. Removing the images and sounds didn't reduce the black screen time.

    And here's the capx. You can probably accentuate the problem by adding even more events.

    CAPX: drive.google.com/open

    Is this the normal behavior?

    Is there a way I can reduce the black screen time on Healer's Quest, which is about 40K events?

    I mean... Any other way than removing events... ^^'

    Thanks!

  • The link I submitted is just to show the loading screen, it's an old HTML5 version. I'm using C2 v.262 for the mobile version I'm talking about.

    As suggested above, I tried to make my first layout blank and see how it goes from there, to be sure the black screen is not due to the loader layout. The bad news is that the black screen time is still 15 seconds.

    Ashley , I've sent to supportzvk@scirra.com a link to download the APK with the first blank layout if you want to test it for yourself. Tell me if you would like the capx of the project.

    Thanks a lot!

  • Thanks for the answer.

    The first layout is the loader layout, and there is nearly nothing on it (two small images and some texts).

    It's this one ( healersquestgame.com/gametrailer ) but with even less elements, as the title is not present.

    The next layout is just a splash screen so it's probably not that either.

    I'll think about the C3 runtime, but with so many addons not compatible it will be difficult (and very long) for this project.

  • The link to the tutorial sure gives a hint in the section where it is explained how loading actually works:

    1. The page's HTML and Javascript is downloaded. Since the Construct 2 engine is not even downloaded yet, nothing is shown.

    2. Once the Javascript is downloaded (typically very quickly, since the code is small), the default loader appears. (...)

    Well... Step 1 actually takes 10-15 seconds on a very correct phone for me, yet Google states the following in the core app quality document:

    The app loads quickly or provides onscreen feedback to the user (a progress indicator or similar cue) if the app takes longer than two seconds to load.

    developer.android.com/docs/quality-guidelines/core-app-quality

    Currently, I can't apply to this. Can anyone help ? Is it possible to add something in the code exported by C2 to load something so that the screen is at least not black?

    Does C3 reduce that time where nothing is displayed at all? ( Ashley ?)

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  • Thanks for you thoughts.

    Actually the game's Loader Style is already set to "Progress bar only", and still I have a few seconds black screen before the progress bar shows up (not always, and for one second maximum), THEN only the loader layout is displayed.

    Even on a good smartphone, the black screen time before the loader layout is displayed is around 14 seconds, which is HUGE! I just tried and even though "Progress bar only" is selected, the screen is completely black during these 14 seconds. :(

  • Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try that. :)

  • Hi everyone,

    I suppose this has been answered numerous times before, but the search feature of the forum seems to be down (I tag you just in case you didn't know Tom ).

    So I would like to know what I am supposed to do to fasten that horrible black screen I have for a few long seconds before the loading screen actually shows up. Should I reduce the size of something (sounds? music? art assets? code?)? Is the downloading something ? Is it because the loading screen is too heavy (I doubt it as I have nearly nothing on it)?

    Thanks for your help!