Tom's Forum Posts

  • We've just launched our new asset store:

    https://www.scirra.com/store

    Lots of royalty free assets, tools and games! And don't forget, you can submit your own content to sell on our store. Simply follow the steps here:

    https://www.scirra.com/store/sell-assets

    Each item in the new store has it's own discussion thread, you can find them here:

    https://www.scirra.com/forum/store-item-discussion_f189

    Hope you all like it and thanks for looking!

    Thanks everyone, this thread has run it's course so am locking it now. The new store is released!

  • Business Upgrade — Now for sale in the Scirra Store!

    https://www.scirra.com/store/upgrade-construct2-license/business-upgrade-33

    <p>Construct 2 is a powerful ground breaking HTML5 game creator designed specifically for 2D games. It allows anyone to build games � no coding required!</p>

    • Use Construct 2 to enter the world of game creation.
    • Rapidly create mockups and prototypes, or use it as a faster alternative to coding.
    • Produce games without having to learn difficult languages.

    <p>Bring your work to life in hours and days instead of weeks and months. With Construct 2 making games is a piece of cake: just drag and drop objects around, add behaviors to them, and make everything come alive with events!</p><p>With a quick and easy to grasp Ribbon interface, you have clear access to a wide set of tools that allows anyone to jump into game creation with little to no prior game development knowledge.</p><p>The Layout Editor provides a what-you-see-is-what-you-get visual interface to design your levels. You can drag, rotate and resize objects, visualize effects applied, and quickly change their settings to your liking in the Properties Bar. Objects can be arranged on separate layers for enhanced organization, allowing advanced parallax and blending effects. There's also a built-in image editor to conveniently make quick edits to your object's graphics.</p><p>Within minutes or hours you can have a working prototype that you can share with friends to play. In almost no time you can test your ideas and know if they are really fun or not, focusing your efforts in what matters the most: designing your game!</p>

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  • Business Edition — Now for sale in the Scirra Store!

    https://www.scirra.com/store/business-edition-construct2/business-edition-32

    <p>Construct 2 is a powerful ground breaking HTML5 game creator designed specifically for 2D games. It allows anyone to build games � no coding required!</p>

    • Use Construct 2 to enter the world of game creation.
    • Rapidly create mockups and prototypes, or use it as a faster alternative to coding.
    • Produce games without having to learn difficult languages.

    <p>Bring your work to life in hours and days instead of weeks and months. With Construct 2 making games is a piece of cake: just drag and drop objects around, add behaviors to them, and make everything come alive with events!</p><p>With a quick and easy to grasp Ribbon interface, you have clear access to a wide set of tools that allows anyone to jump into game creation with little to no prior game development knowledge.</p><p>The Layout Editor provides a what-you-see-is-what-you-get visual interface to design your levels. You can drag, rotate and resize objects, visualize effects applied, and quickly change their settings to your liking in the Properties Bar. Objects can be arranged on separate layers for enhanced organization, allowing advanced parallax and blending effects. There's also a built-in image editor to conveniently make quick edits to your object's graphics.</p><p>Within minutes or hours you can have a working prototype that you can share with friends to play. In almost no time you can test your ideas and know if they are really fun or not, focusing your efforts in what matters the most: designing your game!</p>

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  • Personal Edition — Now for sale in the Scirra Store!

    https://www.scirra.com/store/personal-edition-construct2/personal-edition-31

    <p>Construct 2 is a powerful ground breaking HTML5 game creator designed specifically for 2D games. It allows anyone to build games � no coding required!</p>

    • Use Construct 2 to enter the world of game creation.
    • Rapidly create mockups and prototypes, or use it as a faster alternative to coding.
    • Produce games without having to learn difficult languages.

    <p>Bring your work to life in hours and days instead of weeks and months. With Construct 2 making games is a piece of cake: just drag and drop objects around, add behaviors to them, and make everything come alive with events!</p><p>With a quick and easy to grasp Ribbon interface, you have clear access to a wide set of tools that allows anyone to jump into game creation with little to no prior game development knowledge.</p><p>The Layout Editor provides a what-you-see-is-what-you-get visual interface to design your levels. You can drag, rotate and resize objects, visualize effects applied, and quickly change their settings to your liking in the Properties Bar. Objects can be arranged on separate layers for enhanced organization, allowing advanced parallax and blending effects. There's also a built-in image editor to conveniently make quick edits to your object's graphics.</p><p>Within minutes or hours you can have a working prototype that you can share with friends to play. In almost no time you can test your ideas and know if they are really fun or not, focusing your efforts in what matters the most: designing your game!</p>

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  • Multiplayer signalling server — Now for sale in the Scirra Store!

    https://www.scirra.com/store/game-making-tools/multiplayer-signalling-server-161

    <p>The official Scirra Multiplayer Signalling Server helps peers using the Construct 2 Multiplayer object find and connect to each other. The signalling server does not relay any actual game data: it merely relays connection details so that peers can make direct connections to each other, and the actual gameplay data travels over those peer-to-peer connections, not via the signalling server. As a result bandwidth requirements should be minimal. For more information about the architecture of the multiplayer engine, see: scirra.com/tutorials/892/multiplayer-tutorial-1-concepts%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3EScirra hosts a free official signalling server at wss://multiplayer.scirra.com, running on a high-end dedicated server with a gigabit connection. If this is suitable for your needs, you do not need to run your own signalling server. You may also prefer to rely on the official server if you are not prepared to also run a dedicated server with an SSL certificate, which normally involves additional fees.</p><p>The signalling server is based on node.js and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.</p><p>You may also wish to consider:</p>

    • having a publicly reachable server with a direct connection to the Internet (without using Network Address Translation)
    • purchasing an SSL certificate to encrypt the connection to the signalling server, which improves connectivity for some devices
    • also hosting a TURN server (separate server software required) to improve connectivity for peers where STUN cannot achieve connectivity, e.g. symmetric NAT

    <p>The signalling server can work with none of the above, but the percentage of users who can successfully connect to the server across the Internet may be reduced. The signalling server can also be used offline on local area networks (LANs) where no SSL certificate or STUN/TURN servers are necessary.</p><p>The purchase is a license to run a single signalling server. If you wish to run multiple signalling servers concurrently, additional purchases must be made.</p>

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  • Multiplayer signalling server — Now for sale in the Scirra Store!

    https://www.scirra.com/store/game-makin ... server-161

    The official Scirra Multiplayer Signalling Server helps peers using the Construct 2 Multiplayer object find and connect to each other. The signalling server does not relay any actual game data: it merely relays connection details so that peers can make direct connections to each other, and the actual gameplay data travels over those peer-to-peer connections, not via the signalling server. As a result bandwidth requirements should be minimal. For more information about the architecture of the multiplayer engine, see: https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/892/mu ... eptsScirra hosts a free official signalling server at wss://multiplayer.scirra.com, running on a high-end dedicated server with a gigabit connection. If this is suitable for your needs, you do not need to run your own signalling server. You may also prefer to rely on the official server if you are not prepared to also run a dedicated server with an SSL certificate, which normally involves additional fees.The signalling server is based on node.js and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.You may also wish to consider:having a publicly reachable server with a direct connection to the Internet (without using Network Address Translation)purchasing an SSL certificate to encrypt the connection to the signalling server, which improves connectivity for some devicesalso hosting a TURN server (separate server software required) to improve connectivity for peers where STUN cannot achieve connectivity, e.g. symmetric NATThe signalling server can work with none of the above, but the percentage of users who can successfully connect to the server across the Internet may be reduced. The signalling server can also be used offline on local area networks (LANs) where no SSL certificate or STUN/TURN servers are necessary.The purchase is a license to run a single signalling server. If you wish to run multiple signalling servers concurrently, additional purchases must be made.

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    A lot of what is being discussed here and feedback we've received does makes sense, which is why we're delaying the launch of the addons category until we can sit down and properly rethink it from the beginning. Right from the start it's been a contentious aspect of the store.

    Honestly I do feel bad about this as I know time was put into the pages and the beta. I really do, and for that I'm sorry. However, if you have made a plugin and associated services ready to sell, you are of course able to sell it on your own website and we're OK with people reasonably promoting websites and plugins on our forum.

    Plugins have slightly more complex dynamics and implications which we basically didn't give enough thought to during the initial development.

    Noncentz705 we've emailed everyone that's uploaded to let them know what we're doing.

    I appreciate you and others have spent time working on the addons. We do plan to launch these categories in the future but we need to think about them a little more and add some more features to them before we are comfortable doing so.

    I really am sorry if this is a big disappointment so close to launch, but they are categories we do want to support in the future.

    Fimbul and anyone reading, we've spent a lot of time thinking about it and we're not going to launch the Addons section for the initial store launch. We will think about it more, work on it more and open it up in the future.

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  • Uploaded following changes:

    • Fixed a few bugs with editing post permitting posting of links
    • Fixed bugs allowing linking with images
    • Installed Akismet back on to help with spam protection

    Let's see how this goes. New users should now not be able to post any clickable links at all. CAPTCHA is on registration, and email verification is required. Hopefully these inconveniences are enough for them to stop.

    Surprised they keep signing up, I think it's a human spam farm as they bypass the CAPTCHA no problem.