Tom's Forum Posts

  • I just bought my new PC, what are some good games to get ATM?

  • You thought about underclocking it so you can use it when your room temp is too high?

  • Fully draining it's internal batteries or whatever might have helped

  • Nice, how cool can you run it? And do you overclock?

  • Thanks for the welcome everyone! Really looking forward to contributing to Scirra's future.

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  • Hi Abhilash,

    No this thread is fine, we are always interesting on seeing what other technology is out there, but I changed the thread title to be less aggressive (I know it wasn't meant that way but it could be interpreted so).

    Tom

  • Hi Krush,

    You are absolutely correct, the reason casual support requests went unanswered was simply because there were too many of them to manage for a few devs who were doing it as a fun project. I would like to point out though that there are a few people on this forum that have made significant efforts in providing community support which of course everyone is extremely grateful for.

    Everything else really comes down to the negative effects of running something as a free project. There was no obligation for anyone to fix bugs/add new features/respond to support requests.

    Construct 2 is undergoing an overhaul, and I'm working on the new website and one of my main focuses is to make all the information a lot more accessible, provide good quality support for paying customers, have a much more organised and easy to search online manual/tutorial/articles, and lots more. I'm going to be putting significant efforts into making all these a reality. It really is going to be a much more accessible product, and hopefully the resources supporting it will blossom quickly.

    I completely agree that the above behaviour wont be acceptable for a commercial product. One thing I love when buying things online, more than anything else is receiving fast and good quality support both from official channels and the community. This is what I am going to be working towards.

    Tom

  • Yes! Jquery is included with exported games, and it has some excellent AJAX wrappers. These will be available in C2 soon hopefully as they open the door on what can be achieved massively.

    AJAX also will be able to manage some multiplayer online games as well (turn based and puzzle). HTML5 websockets will be able to handle real time multiplayer games.

    When the AJAX plugins are completed I'll write some tutorials on how these can be applied easily. I'll also write some sample server side code in multiple languages to make it easy for people to install.

  • Good question. The answer is yes depending on your aims.

    To a Server

    Everything in HTML and Javascript is client side, that means, whoever is playing your game can theoretically view all the source to it. It will be obfuscated as part of the export process which will serve well in certain types of plagiarism, but for storing connections to databases, this is a big no no as anyone that can view the source and extract the database username and password could cause havock on it by executing any command they wanted. This is why there is no native support for database connections in HTML/JS.

    To Local

    However, HTML5 has introduced Web Storage, which allows you to create a database on the clients machine. More information is available at:

    http://openbit.co.uk/?p=135

    This will eventually be supported by Construct, but it will probably only be suitable for save games etc. No server interaction.

    Resolving the Server Database Issue

    Using AJAX requests, you can POST or GET data on a webpage. You will need a webserver with a database on it. Then you can send commands to the page such as "?score=3342" and the page can interpret the data and save it. So the AJAX acts as the middle man between the client and the database, which is a lot safer.

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  • It's �30, totally 100% worth it, it's called Corsair A50 I think, but it's big, my case isn't quite big enough so measure first!

    It keeps it 10c cooler, so I've over clocked to 3.5ghz (on 6 cores)

  • Is it fair for you to ask Ash to work part time on it, so you can avoid paying the price of the license?