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- alastair
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The arrows pointing everywhere looks pretty silly and disorganised... Construct looks heaps more logical and efficient.
- alastair
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Karzay yeah, but it depends on your audience. If you're aiming for an audience like Steam, then looking at steam's harware surveys data is better.

Most people don't actually have a good graphics card, so graphics is a huge part of performance (window size, graphics size etc.).
- alastair
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If Scirra teamed up with Unity, that would be a dream come true.
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- alastair
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No, there is no best resolution. It's going to depend on the type of the game, your goals, and your audience.
- alastair
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It seems to be ok for me, a little blury but since it's an action game I think its fine. I could have done a higher resolution and bigger sprites etc., but the memory/vram would have been so much higher!

It depends on your game though, it's going to be different for everyone probably.
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Going by valve's hardware survey statistics, 16:9 followed by 16:10 is the most popular aspect ratio. I'm making my game 960x540 letterbox scaled (half of 1080p).
- alastair
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Like with the Vita, I doubt they're going to support HTML5 gaming much especially when many browser companies don't care about it (i.e., pretty much everyone that isn't chrome/firefox).
- alastair
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- 13 Sep, 2012
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Looking forward to see how this turns out.
- alastair
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- 12 Sep, 2012
It's cool that it works now, thanks! But could you add an action eventually to get the index of the last button pressed (or something like that), this way we can make ? custom controls ?.

If you don't know what I mean by custom controls, it means I can have a menu in the game that lets the user define their own input (everyone likes their input a specific way). This is a standard for every proffesional game, here is an example from a few games to show you what I mean:

dota2.jpg

seriousSam3.jpg

darksouls.jpg

A video on the subject.
- alastair
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Yeah I can't even test my game I get a similar error message, I guess it must be this destroying issue since I'm destroying heaps near the start.
- alastair
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- 11 Sep, 2012
Yeah, maybe the gamepad HTML5 stuff has changed or something since it was made too.
- alastair
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- 11 Sep, 2012
Does this plugin work? Maybe the manual entry was released prematurely or something. It's not recognising my 360 controller (I pressed buttons and used Chrome), it works on the site firebelly posted and I just played Dark Souls using the controller too.