Nice work.

Thanks iceangel

Hey man, first of all happy new year.

Really well done games with interesting concepts and graphics, I salute you for your hard work and may your new year be filled with Joy, Wellness and success! Keep up the great work.

Thanks Phuzz for the wishes and encouraging comments! I noticed your game on Google Play also and checked the video. It looks good and neat. I will try that on my Android device once I get a chance. Keep up the good work!

Dear Friends,

We are happy to share following Facebook web game which is developed by myself and my wife Hasanthi using Scirra Construct 2.

Now you can play Sri Lankan Traditional New Year Games on Facebook! Sri Lanka is an island country in the Indian Ocean which has a documented history that spans over 3,000 years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka). In Sri Lanka majority of people celebrate new year in month of April and following game contains some traditional games/ sports played during that new year period.

https://www.facebook.com/appcenter/avurudu-games

Note: This is a web game and NOT a mobile game So please use a web browser on desktop or laptop computer to play this. This is best played on Chrome web browser.

Included Games:

• Pillow Fight (Kotta Pora)
• Blind Pot Break (Kana Mutti Bideema)
• Mark Elephant’s Eye (Aliyata Aha Thabeema)
• Guess Papaya Seed Count (Papol Gediye Ata Ganeema)
• Tug of War (Kambha Adeema)
• Dice Game (Kata Gaseema)

This is based on the Avurudu Games mobile game we released last year. This time we wanted to give priority to those who don't have a chance to use Android smart phones and those who use Facebook on desktop web browsers.

If you want to check the previously released mobile game following is the Google Play URL.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... urudugames

If you like to keep in touch and get updates on our future creations, please "Like" following Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/thaproint

Twitter

https://twitter.com/thaproint

We hope you will enjoy our creations <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":-)" title="Smile">

Thanks mineet for your wishes and encouraging comments <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Dear Friends,

We are happy to share following Scirra Construct mobile game which is developed by myself and my wife Thelisha Hasanthi Peiris. We published it on Google Play last week.

Google Play URL

play.google.com/store/apps/details

We live in Sri Lanka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka) and here people celebrate traditional new year festival in April every year. It is also know as "Aluth Avurudu" season and playing traditional games is an important part of this season. So we developed a mobile game called ?Avurudu Games? with 4 Traditional Sri Lankan New Year Games <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> .

This is our first ?published? mobile game and we would appreciate if you can try this game on your android devices and share your valuable feedback. We tried to provide in-game instructions to make this understandable for those who haven't seen these traditional games in real life, however please let us know if we need to improve instructions.

All the graphics used in this game were created from scratch using InkScape and GIMP open source software based on traditional Sri Lankan arts. And we used CocoonJS to make this deployable on Android.

You may search for ?Avurudu Games? in Google Play to download this (make sure that you type it correctly <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />).

Also we created a Facebook page to publish details of mobile/web games developed by us. We named our game development team as "Thaprobane Interactive" (ThaproInt) and we have already published our first mobile game on Google Play. We are planning to develop many games in future also and we will be announcing those games on our Facebook page.

If you like to keep in touch and get updates on our future creations, please "Like" following Facebook page.

facebook.com/thaproint

Our Twitter URL

twitter.com/thaproint

We hope you will enjoy our creations :-)

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ashley and Tom for creating a such a wonderful tool and always being very helpful with our queries. And we thank you all for being a such a wonderful and supportive community.

Thanks & Regards,

Ramesh

Thanks Ashley

"Projects do not run from disk (the file:// protocol). Browser security limitations generally prevent projects from working when on disk. So we don't support this at all and it's no surprise if your project doesn't work there. Didn't you see a browser prompt telling you that? I added an alert when running on the file:// protocol that should say "upload this project before trying it"."

Quoted from Ashley.

Thanks thehen

Sorry I missed the following forum topic in the "How do I....?" section.

scirra.com/forum/blank-screen-after-exporting_topic50769.html

When I searched with the text "upload this project before trying it", I found it. Thanks!

This is completely normal behavior, as thehen points out. Note that you're exporting your project as a HTML website, so index.html is intended to be delivered by a web server, not as a local file.

Thanks Velojet

When I was developing a game for Scirra Rotary Competition in February 2012, I tested that game in many browser versions by opening index.html from a local disk (the file:// protocol). And I am sure that it worked well on all browser versions including Chrome at that time. After that also I tested this many times on Chrome without issues. So it was not the "Normal Behaviour" with some previous versions. That's why I was wondering why it is not working now. And with current versions also, this black screen is only coming with Chrome and it shows following error in JavaScript console of Chrome.

Failed to load resource file://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js

Uncaught Error: SECURITY_ERR: DOM Exception 18 c2runtime.js:54

If you do want to open index.html locally, the only sure-to-work method is for you to set up a local web server (e.g. WAMP) and have that deliver index.html to your browser.

Yes, actually I have an Apache HTTP server in my machine and I have hosted the game in it. Unfortunately the people I want to share this with are in a different network (a different secured VLAN) which prevents access to my machine as a result of some security configurations. And they do not have access to dropbox.

Personally I feel asking them to setup a local web server just to check my game is bit of additional work for them. Since this is anyway working with IE9 and Firefox, I will ask them to install one of those browsers, because it is easier for them.

Anyway thanks for all the responses. I really appreciate the helpful nature of Scirra Construct community <img src="smileys/smiley20.gif" border="0" align="middle">

Recently I observed that C2 games exported as "HTML5 Website" give only a black screen while trying to open the index.html file locally using Chrome web browser.

However these games work as expected when I try to preview with Chrome or when I access the index.html as a URL in dropbox using Chrome.

Above issue is only found in Chrome web browser and didn't have any issues with IE9 and Firefox 17.0.1.

Following is the tested environment

Software

• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3
• Scirra Construct 2 Release 114 (32 bit)
• Firefox 17.0.1
• IE 9
• Chrome Version 23.0.1271.97 m

Hardware

• RAM: 2GB
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU 2.66GHz
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

Steps to Recreate the Issue

To recreate the issue I have used the "8 direction 1 (simple movement).capx" file available with C2 as an example project. In case you want to make sure that I am using an unmodified file, I have kept that .capx in dl.dropbox.com/u/105699697/8%20direction%201%20%28simple%20movement%29.capx

1) Open the file in Scirra Construct 2 Release 114 (32 bit)

2) Preview in Chrome web browser [WORKS]

3) Export as "HTML5 Website"

4) Go to the exported folder and open index.html using Chrome web browser [ONLY BLACK SCREEN]

5) Go to the exported folder and open index.html using Firefox [WORKS]

6) Go to the exported folder and open index.html using Internet Explorer [WORKS]

After that I uploaded the exported content to dropbox and accessed following URL using Chrome web browser.

dl.dropbox.com/u/105699697/8-direction/index.html

This time it worked as expected.So the black screen is coming only when I try to open index.html file locally using Chrome web browser.

Opening the game using index.html in a local folder is required for me, because I want to share the exported games with some people who do not have direct access to dropbox.

In case you want to check the exported content, I have shared that it in following URL.

dl.dropbox.com/u/105699697/8-direction.zip

I would appreciate if you can help with checking this issue.

Djulera Thank you very much!

joxer,

You may use the "Gift Option" in following URL (right side of the page).

scirra.com/store

It says "Buying Construct 2 for someone else? That's kind of you! Enter their details below to make sure it's issued in their name."

So with that Gift Option, you can ask someone to buy a Construct 2 license as a gift for your name. In that case, someone can pay for the license using his/her PayPal or Credit Card, but the license will be issued in your name.

Congratulations to all the winners and participants! This was a great competition. <img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

And I would like to thank Scirra team for organizing this. <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

It is really interesting to see the number of games submitted. There are many wonderful and addictive game ideas <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />.

Some of the games have used the rotation in a very innovative manner <img src="smileys/smiley16.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> . I played most of the games submitted and enjoyed playing all of them. <img src="smileys/smiley20.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

I am really happy to participate in this challenging competition. And I would like to take this opportunity to appreciate the great knowledge sharing and supporting culture of Scirra team and Scirra community. <img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Well Done and Good Luck to Everyone!