Looks cool man

But i got a lot of friends in the Adventure Game Dev Community and i sing my praises on C3 all the time

In any case, keep it up, looks cool!

Hi guys

Sorry, i posted a thread about this yesterday but decided, to delete it again because i felt it was kind of poorly worded and that i wanted to think a little bit more about how i best communicate the idea and the channel in (hopefully) fewer words.

So without much ado, i opened a new Discord Channel called ConstructIVE. We are a group of Construct users who wish to build up a small, healthy, positive and, well, constructive Community and Platform for people who love working with Construct and want to see it grow as well as help each other as well as Scirra themselves.

So here is what we want to achieve with the channel:

+ Getting a positive vibe, where you can feel welcome and show things you're working on as well as get help and support if you have any questions.

+ Discussing the current developments of Construct in a useful way without overarching sarcasm or cynicism. I actually opened a "Think Tank" room, where you can share ideas for possible developments all the way up to mockups for "what if" scenarios.

+ Hopefully, one day down the line and if this thing goes anywhere, having a Developers Lounge, where we can exchange ideas or just talk to Scirra Devs but in a way that shows the mutual respect between us and them.

+ No engine is perfect, and we feel often times some concerns that might even seem legitimate are going nowhere for any number of reasons. Therefore i opened a separate channel where we can collect tests about performance stuff etc. and if there are real issues at hand, we can work out a solution together. Please note, that according to channel rules, these kind of issues require a project file so we can discuss them in a serious matter.

+ Most of all: HAVE FUN! There are many talented developers scattered around these forums, facebook groups, Twitter, Discord and so on. We want to bring them together for a constructIVE experience!

Unfortunately, there are also some things we really don't want to see on the Discord which include:

• Restating of apparent shortcomings of the engine over and over without any attempt to actually help Scirra our the other users of fixing them.
• We'd like to see some basic human courtesy to each other and, in case they would be interested in ever joining, the developers of Construct. This is not too much to ask and often times makes for a more productive environment in general.
• Game Development in its very nature can be very rewarding but we all went through frustrating times. Still, defaulting to a snarky or overtly cynical attitude against C2/C3 never helped anyone either. We see a bright future for the engine and if you can't then this is probably not the Channel for you.
• Insults or personal offenses are not being accepted in any way shape or form.
• Posts like "C3 suckz, C2 ftw!" or "I hate browser based software" oooor "Subscription is bad" etc. These matters have been discussed in great length with Scirra already and they stated their reasoning multiple times. As of now, they'll just have to be accepted as fact.

Sounds like a pandering, safe space full of SJW refugees to you? Well, luckily there are many other offerings of communities around the Internet that might better suit your taste then <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile"> And i don't even mean this sarcastically <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy">

If it DOES however sound like something, you'd be interested to be a part of then please, join us now by following this link: https://discord.gg/T5mBaYW

TL;DR: Want to be part of a helpful and constructive Construct channel? <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy"> Then please join our Discord today <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy">

Thanks to all who're interested and have fun!

Best,

Joel

I'd be very interested in trying out Facebook Instant Games as well Is this possible with Construct 3 as of now?

It's specifically a feature for the new runtime so i wouldn't hold your breath. C2 is in maintenance mode now, no new features. Unfortunate but i really would advise giving C3 a go, it's the future and awesome. There, i said it.

Yeah well i mean there's only so much time i can invest in this so always happy for others to spread the word

Just wanted to say thanks again to everybody, we're at 200 signatures now

Well one is the Animated Text Addon by Toby R which is like 5 dollars in the store and the other two are by rex: MoveTo and CSV.

I develop a commercial game in C3 and was one of the early adopters and it works smashingly!

I try to keep my use or 3rd party plugins to a minimum though. I only use all of 3 external addons i think.

So C3 is definitely functional and the addons will come with time. I would definitely invest in C3 rather than C2, since it's the future, which might not be the most popular opinion in the community sometimes but it's just a fact that will hopefully grow on people at the very least when the new runtime is out which looks fantastic

Kirk Scott, Nintendo of America representative for indie games took note of my latest tweet:

https://twitter.com/JoelMayerProds/stat ... 4588678145

So please sign the petition, write in to Nintendo, retweet and spread the word. Let's do what we can to show Nintendo that we want this.

And i think it would be good for Scirra and/or Ashley , Tom or your business manager to get in touch with Mr. Scott <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink">

Agreed, looks great and a built-in typewriter effect is very cool indeed ^^

Only two things i would love to see:

Aliased Text for TTF's or Webfonts, so you can use pixel fonts directly without needing to do spritefonts (as in i.e. Game Maker)

New Line break for the typewriter plugin BEFORE the sentence has started to write out as to prevent the jaggy linebreak in the middle of a word.

(THAT would be a killer feature, that no other engine i've seen offers out of the box).

But as it stands, it's already pretty exciting!