It would have been faster for me to close and reopen the project after an export before doing any further work that I want to save. Can this be fixed in the next update? It's been several hours now. ("Working (0%)...")

Hello, Is there a way I can protect my Steam game package from being extracted (images, audio files, etc) by customers? Exported out of Construct 3 nw.js. I thought minify takes care of that, but it looks like it doesn't.

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You'll notice the game is really mostly like watching an animated series, that just runs on its own, with occasional interactive elements and battles. There's a host of unlockable post-game content, features, and mini-games. I voiced most of the male characters. The story might start off a bit slow, but quickly gets kicking.

I'm a bit over a year into my next project, a Pokemon-type monster training RPG (who doesn't love those?) featuring a massive world populated by characters from the same franchise as the above game.

I've updated the next beta to try to log more helpful error messages when invalid names are encountered. However we don't know what the root cause problem is yet so we're working blind, so this may or may not help. If the project is just corrupt, it's impossible to show a good error message (and in that case the only good error message to show would be "the project appears to be corrupt" anyway).

Sounds good, I'll keep waiting on Construct email support to fix it for me.

My project was started in C2, opened in C3 with no error messages, and also previews fine, I put a day of work into it, and saves with no problems, but then when closed and later opened again, is when it gives "failed to open project".

Ashley It appears to be a different problem:

> Note: This project doesn't even open in previous versions (I tried r388.2, 388, 387, 386, 385, 384, 383, 382, 381, and 380) so I wouldn't be able to change any names of anything inside the project

I wish console errors in Construct contained more useful information. They are often too vague or illegible, like "Invalid name" or "Error Zx.fs in qf.gu"

Yes this is true. Hopefully Construct support can fix it when they have time, as I can't even enter the project even if I knew how to fix it that way. (Maybe they can make it so that these errors are just ignored and the project opened, if that wouldn't be a problem anyway for any reason.)

This happens to me quite frequently. I'm not sure what causes this issue but here are some things that seemed to help fix it for me:

Thanks. The closest to applicable thing there was maybe clearing cookies/cache, but still same error. I hope Construct support is able to get back to my email from a few days ago before too long. No rush, as long as it's eventually fixed, in case the fix is beyond me. I'm doing whatever I can for the project until I can get back into C3, to pass the time, mainly creating visual assets for later use.

Wait, it gave the same error in r388.2 anyway. I thought opening it in r388.2 was the fix. I made a post about my issue here if anyone can help: construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/fix-case-failed-open-project-183305

> how do you open the project in an older version

Unpack c3p file into a folder. Open project.c3proj file in any text editor and update this string:

"savedWithRelease": 39700

Thanks, I changed that number to 38800 and opened it in r388.2. The clear answer to me is to just continue working in that version instead of ever updating, until a future update ever fixes this issue or at least tells us in an easy pop-up what exactly to fix.

Is there a way to tell my desktop shortcut of the C3 app to go to r388.2 instead of the latest version? When I install the app it always results in the latest version instead. Thanks

how do you open the project in an older version

Is there a way to set that dragging the middle mouse button in an event sheet in C3 drags the view up or down like it does in C2?