DX9 games work fine in DX10 and DX11. You just have to download the missing optional libraries, that is all.

Statement of agreement.

x = x + 50 would work, just make sure it is not a continuous event, otherwise it will zoom out of screen within a few frames. Trigger once, key pressed etc. are proper triggers. Move at angle is fine, too. It is basically like this:

x = x + cos(angle)*distance

y = y + sin(angle)*distance

Talking about a showcase of Construct's abilities... have you lot played Plants Vs Zombies by PopCap?

It is genius. It takes a very simple tower defense game, its brilliance lies in the polish and minigames. There are many different variations of gameplay within the game itself. Hell, there is even a zen garden mode, where you just water plants and stuff!

Perhaps if the community project would have something like that; take basic gameplay, polish it and introduce different gameplay variations. Since it is a community project, each of us could work on our own variations, which, once polished, would then be integrated.

It just needs a solid base engine and gameplay elements. Not necessarily tower defense - the genre is a bit thick at the moment.

They can't be hit? I couldn't figure the controls out, just movement and jumping

Motion blur isn't equally supported across all platforms. In most cases, it bogs the system to a crawl. Deadeye's computer isn't the best, neither is mine.

In the future, make motion blur an option.

Here is a question. If you use 3d mesh - that is, it spans multiple Z - how would you do 3d collision detection? It'd be very tricky, no doubt.

Does it matter? Most games are windowed nowadays, since desktops usually have a large resolution.

• blow the thing up
• paste the hole into a freshly spawned sprite
• is overlapping solid AND hole sprite > keep moving

Just an idea.

I wonder who fails harder - them for the 'discount' or the people who actually bought it, thinking they saved money...

Why not just use 2x2? That'll use as much VRAM as a tiny peck of sand uses up space on your courtyard.

Still have to install the optional DX9 libraries which aren't included in Vista/7. But the installer takes care of that - if you click 'yes' on DX9 installer popup as well as VC2005 redistributable.