Here this quick example may help you out.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1646976/grabbing.cap

Thats pretty cool Luomu. Great screenshot too.

An editor would be nice where you could change parameters and see the bullets patterns in realtime and then export the xml file.

Thanks Lucid. Works great.

I've tried that too. But the global variable will just keep increasing by 1. Even using "trigger once" doesn't help.

*EDIT*

Just had another try while typing this and stupid me had the "trigger once" in the wrong place. Working fine now.

Thanks Krush

Hi guys I'm having trouble with this.

I have multiple instances of the same sprite in my layout, they have a private variable that is set by random at the start of layout, the variable is either 0 or 1.

What I'm having a problem with is counting the number of the instances that have their private variable as 1 and setting a global variable to this number.

I have tried to use "count object matching events" but it only counts them by instance name what is the syntax for adding a check for a private variable as well.

Eg - 10 instances / 6 have the PV 1 / 4 have the PV 0

- Set global variable to 6

Or is there a better way of doing this.

Also the private variable can change too, so the global variable has to keep up to date.

Looking like an interesting project namre.

Would be nice if you could collect a powerup that sets the clock hands in reverse for a set time and that only harms the enemies.

Keep it up man.

Here you go. You'll need to have Lucids Spritefont plugin for the example to work.

SPRITEFONT PLUGIN THREAD

Very simple example of a textbox. I have had to use the +NEWLINE+ command to wordwrap because the spritefont plugin would wordwrap a few lines then make it disappear. Probably my fault be I was in a hurry.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1646976/TEXTBOX.cap

namre - sounds like an interesting gameplay mechanic, manic shooting and keeping an eye on the clock hands.

varr - Very nice. Loving the graphical style.

<img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b170/mr_flibble_hhah/Games/skullkoban.png">

Started work on writing a tutorial. Decided to do a Sokoban clone since I don't remember seeing one in Construct.

Anybody have any suggestions on how to present the tutorial - Wink video(similar to the dynamic lighting tutorial on the WIKI), PDF, commented cap or just a text doc?

Yes it possible.

I used INI files to store the level setup for my last game.

Same could be done for your ships eg:

[Ship1]

Name=Starbug

Speed=100

Shield=500

Accel=300

I think ZomgBanana's made a good example of using an INI.

That game looks excellent in motion Minor. Give us something playable already!

The following is a video of something I'm NOT working on anymore, but I guess it's still worth mentioning:

Beautiful Pixel my man. Love your pixel work, and by love it, I mean am totally jealous of it.

One day I'll move up from 8x8 to 16x16 only thing is thats twice as many pixels for me to balls up.

This happens to me too. Not that often though and usually only when debugging the layout.

Don't think it's your events just a small Construct bug. Try placing your character/hitbox just above your solids in the layout editor that used to help for me.