Clash of Clans seems like an MMO which aims for a casual audience. In order to keep the game "fair" to people who don't play very often I could imagine that as a positive aspect of putting the delay.

If the delay can be bypassed by paying or "asking a friend for help" then the goal is to get more people playing and sharing their data or cash with Clash of Clans.

It seems strange to turn the player away, but it seems even the players who don't like the delay come back to play longer.

It's actually really surprising to find a company writing it's own engine from scratch (at least in the AAA field). Usually it's heavily modified/added to versions of existing pro engines.

As for why they don't share the engine, sometimes it's because the work-flow is so incredibly complex that fans would be unlikely to do anything useful, and then your competitors would just learn your tricks. In the case of games that want to produce paid DLC, that kind of limits how much freedom they want to give people over adding and changing things in the game content, so I feel that's a relevant point in that the companies that plan DLC would not want people to be modifying their game.

—, well unless you buy a personal license, and then later make $5000USD or over, then you also have to come back and buy a business license upgrade.

Keep making more games and try varying the gameplay/graphic style/audience (eg: casual, action, rpg). Sometimes it takes people giving one of your games a chance for them to like the others.

Also important, post where the people go to play or talk about games. Eg: mobile markets, Chrome store, Windows Store, GameJolt, gaming forums (in the right area/genre of discussion to avoid a backfire/bad response).

Hope that helps and good luck!

Well actually I prefer the way Construct 2 does it, as that's close to how Construct Classic and the Clickteam products worked for me. Have you tried using the "import spritesheet" (might not be its actual name) feature in the animation editor?

Also, nothing is stopping you from just overwriting the source files when you use the Save As Folder method of saving your project files. Then you just need a tool to automatically break apart the frames and name them in number order.

If your gamepad isn't recognized, you can use x360ce to make it appear as an Xbox360 controller to the game: https://code.google.com/p/x360ce/

You basically just copy the x360ce exe and dll's it produces into the same folder as node-webkit, and in my testing it worked well for playing with a PlayStation 2 arcade stick converted to USB <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy">

You're probably going to need to do this as a Javascript plugin for Construct 2 as there isn't any plugins that I know of to do that yet.

These links might be helpful though:

http://excelbuilderjs.com/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj891051.aspx

(This method should work if the user has Microsoft Office on their PC: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6779 ... d-document )

According to this it can: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=170132

But if the forum you're on won't let you, then I don't think it's possible to embed it :/

Export to HTML5 like normal, host that publically, then iframe it into the forum maybe?

farflamex 3D is possible now too

And yes, you might need to do things a little differently than you would in pure code style though (unless you want to do it in Javascript as a plugin), but once you get used to the event system you can do the same stuff generally!

newt I feel that's a good question to ask, the Google Play developer fee is a one-time payment of $25, and it's important for people searching the forums in future to see that they might be able to find free app stores, but they'll still need to have a full license for C2.

And no sorry Naji, none that I know of, but Firefox and Google Chrome let you upload web games for free if that helps!

Do you mean GameJolt? http://gamejolt.com/community/forums/to ... -api/2867/