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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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It did look like builds had started failing for some reason - I just rebooted the server and it looks like it's working again now. Apologies for the inconvenience, hopefully it was a one-off.
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It's also possible it's correct: maybe you have an opaque layer on top of everything that is hidden in the editor.
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It looks like something is messing with your browser's network requests and breaking things. As Construct's error message says this is commonly caused by browser extensions, so try disabling them, or try a different browser. More recently apparently some VPNs have been causing similar problems too, so try disabling that or changing its settings if you have a VPN.
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- 8 Nov, 2024
Asking someone who has purchased Construct 3 to do something for you may be a way to circumvent the subscription requirement for certain features, so closing this thread.
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That means you opened dev tools for the editor, not preview. The message includes the text: "Note: this is the developer tools console for the Construct editor. If you're looking for developer tools for preview, be sure to open developer tools for the preview window instead."

Make sure the preview window is focused when you press F12.
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The Speech Synthesis example lists all available voices. If a voice for a specific language is not included in the list, I'm afraid I'm not sure if it's possible to add any others - the speech synthesis languages are provided by the browser, not Construct.
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macOS has strict security restrictions which make it difficult to run an app until it's been signed/notarized. There's some information in the guide on Exporting with NW.js.
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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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That sounds about right - the problem is the Steam Overlay doesn't work properly and Valve need to fix it. I've gone to great lengths to try to get it to work but there's nothing much more we can do as it's Valve's software which is out of our control. I'd happily talk to anyone at Valve about it, and I've tried repeatedly but just cannot get through to anyone there about it.
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Valve say it should just work, and there is virtually no control the game has over the Steam Overlay - the only API functionality is to ask to show the Steam Overlay (there isn't even a way for the game to ask to hide the overlay). The display and interactivity of the Steam Overlay is handled entirely by Steam which is made by Valve, so if you have any issues with it, you should contact Valve.
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You shouldn't use Local Storage with Steam Cloud. Use File System writing to a dedicated folder.

If your game already uses Local Storage, you probably want to set up something like the following for backwards compatibility: use File System to write to a dedicated folder for Steam Cloud, but also check Local Storage for any older saves made that way, but don't save any new data to Local Storage.
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You should be able to use File System to write files to a folder that Steam Auto-Cloud will sync for you. There's some information on this here.
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That looks a lot like this issue that I filed back in March (and is noted under "known issues" in the original post here). I'll add a comment noting the device you mentioned.