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• • stemkoski
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  • 7 Jul, 2012
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  I also agree... I hope that the navigation will be improved in general (and made uniform between different sections of the site), sooner rather than later...

• • stemkoski
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  • 7 Jul, 2012
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  Entry:

  Subscribe to Construct videos now

  "Construct Instruction for Rectangle Destruction"

  Hopefully it's a more exciting title than "Tutorials for creating a Breakout clone using Construct" :)

• • stemkoski
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  • 11 Jun, 2012
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  Agreed. Perhaps people with sufficiently high reputation points could be given the power to delete tutorials (in addition to editing them)?

• • stemkoski
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  • 11 Jun, 2012
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  shinkan I've been working with three.js a lot lately, listed some favorite links at

  http://stemkoski.blogspot.com/2012/06/3d-javascript-using-threejs.html

  and creating my own set of demos at

  http://github.com/stemkoski/Three.js-examples

  Haven't worked on a plugin or anything, but it's still really cool <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle">

• • stemkoski
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  • 11 Jun, 2012
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  Today I am learning Http and CSS <-(thx for the tip)

  Somebody previously mentioned HTML tutorials at http://www.html.net/ --

  be sure to not miss the CSS tutorials that are on the same site at:

  http://www.html.net/tutorials/css/

  Also, if you learn well by example (as I do), then be sure to check out some examples that I wrote at:

  http://www.adelphi.edu/~stemkoski/html-tutorials/tutorials.html

• • stemkoski
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  • 11 Jun, 2012
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  We're working on some EXE wrappers for the near future. Stay tuned!

  Exciting hints at what the future holds...

• • stemkoski
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  • 1 Jun, 2012
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  Post a capx file and I can take a look at it for you.

• • stemkoski
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  • 29 May, 2012
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  Just put up a video-tutorial explaining how this game was made, please check it out at http://www.scirra.com/tutorials/312/cloning-the-classics-breakout-video

  I am also interested to hear if there is a general preference between written tutorials and video tutorials -- I'm trying out both styles in my "Cloning the Classics" tutorial series.

• • stemkoski
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  • 29 May, 2012
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  I'm not sure if this idea belongs in this forum, but here it goes...

  With the new Kongregate website's feature of hosting games via the iframe tag, why not create another upload area, similar to the Scirra arcade, where one could upload a version of the game produced via the Kongregate exporter? Then with a link to the corresponding Scirra-hosted page, one could easily set up the Kongregate interface to the game. Scirra could then add their custom loading screen (like the Kongregate/Armor Games/Newgrounds/etc. screens) to increase traffic back to this website. A win-win as everybody gains publicity.

  Just a thought. Thanks for reading! <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

  (Note: I'm familiar with the DropBox method of hosting games for Kongregate, I just think this alternative solution would be more... elegant.)

• • stemkoski
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  • 29 May, 2012
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  Is this the page to which you're referring?

  scirra.com/construct2/releases

  If so, I agree, it would be nice to place a link to it prominently somewhere -- but where? Perhaps if we give Tom an idea of where it would nicely fit in, he might be more receptive...

• • stemkoski
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  • 29 May, 2012
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  Good start to a game. Have you considered giving the player more than one health point? I found stage 3 quite difficult already. Or perhaps allow the player to continue the level from where they left off, with eliminated enemies still gone.

  Cheers!

• • stemkoski
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  • 29 May, 2012
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  Great application -- would this program work with skydome images or spherical projection images? It might also make for a nice stellar constellation guide... a "StarMapApp" of sorts.

• • stemkoski
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  • 28 May, 2012
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  I like the idea of "ammo" in your game, Dani, it helps the weapon to be not over-powered. In my game, I only allow one laser shot to be on the screen at a time for the same reasons.

• • stemkoski
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  • 28 May, 2012
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  Yet another Breakout clone, anyone?

  http://www.scirra.com/arcade/example/1248/rectangle-destroyer

  Hope you enjoy it! (capx file also available for download)

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• • stemkoski
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  • 24 May, 2012
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  Yann Thanks for writing and sharing your example! Hopefully someday there will be some grid-movement behavior or action that is part of the Construct 2 core. In the meantime, I've written something similar using the bullet behavior to automate the calculation of the new X and Y coordinates during the movement of the sprite. If you're interested, check it out at http://www.scirra.com/tutorials/308/cloning-the-classics-pacman