Hello!
First off I wan to thank you Ashley for making Construct! I am sad I did not find it sooner as I have been using Game Maker for the past 4 months...bleh...Anyway I am a HUGE fan of your work and must say Construct is the best Gamemaker out there for creating 2D games. Not even the commercial guys are as good as this. I prefer this to the Torque 2D game engine!!! and thats about $100$ So Again thank you it means alot as I love my open source software, I even run a freeware site I love it so much. In fact that leads me to a question...I host Construct on my site, is that ok? It's under the GPL so I thought it would be ok. It's in an un-modified archive and a link to your site. I even said that it's my favorite one. My site has not launched yet so theres time to remove it if it's a prob, but I hope it's not. Unfortunately I do have some questions for you and your forums...
You see I usually work with Game Maker for 2D games but really hate it. I make RPGs like the ones that where on the SNES, from birds eye view. But it takes so long in game maker with it's crappy layout. Also it's graphics are horrid. I like all the features you have implemented into construct, thats why i'm going to use it from now on, plus the frequent updates are nice. Anyway...
I also use 3D Game Studio A7-Commercial for making my 3D Games. Now I know constuct has no where near that kind of power but here is what i'm doing...
I like to make my games in birds eye view, SNES style before I make them in 3D. This gives me time to get to know my characters, game world, story line, and much much more. It's a very helpfull process and your software will get me there. But I have some questions about construct first, how to stuff. (I have read and made your "Ghost shooter" game)
1: How do you make it so that when a player reaches part of the screen in the game another part shows? Say if i'm walking up and then half way through the screen want the player to see then next section of land or building how do i tell construct to do that?
2: How do I do that above question in construct when building my level? What I mean is would I make the room really really big? Or do I biuld it in sections? Or are both option available?
3: Related to the above questions kinda the same actually but phrased differently, How do you build a vast world in construct? The kinda game i'm really going for is "Golden Sun" (GBA) but better.
4: related to 3, how do I make it so that my player can enter houses and take stuff or interact with object like opening doors?
5: Can construct only support sprites? or can it load 3D models as well like game maker? If not thats something to look into i guess. I know I do more 3D modeling than sprite making, it's actually easyer for me than the sprites lol.
6: How do I load a moving texture in construct such as water? I have some AVI videos of water looping, would they work? They are not recorded water they are textures made into a slide show.
7: Continued from 6, can construct load gif images, "videos" I could try to make/find a water texture in gif. IF not how do I apply a moving water texture or any moving texture for that matter?
8: How do I add triggers to construct? Like say when a player hits a certain spot on the level or beats a certain boss/monster it would go to a movie. Can construct even load movies and integrate them into games? like cute scenes, intros, outros?
9: Can you make a player have certain sounds? Like say when he/she is walking on grass it would be very quit, then in water very loud. How do I tell construct to do this? Can I?
I believe thats it! sorry for all the Qs but I want to make games. I thank you all in advance for your patience and responses. I'll be looking forward to hearing from you all!!!
Seeya!!!