I hope some people don't turn this into a relgious subject, The Athiests don't want to hear it

Sorry, but you just did. Not sure why, but you did.

Also not sure I get what you mean by "the atheists don't want to hear it". You're not being very specific here.

> Donald Trump for president is hilarious.

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If you're not living in the US, then yeah it would be.

I'm just really hoping that his whole "maybe I'm running, we'll see" schtick is just a lame publicity stunt to boost ratings for his lame TV show.

As Patton Oswalt said about Bush during the election 2004, a real sick part of me wants to see Trump win. Mostly because I want to see how hard he would screw things up.

I find his comments on the community perplexing. Compared to other forums/communities, this one has always had a much more pleasant and helpful tone than most. Not to say that there haven't been disagreements, just look at the C2 forum XD. But even then I've found it to be more abrasive honesty than rudeness.

The documentation argument does have some merit (that it is incomplete, not the rude things he says). Though as Mipey said, hard to make good documentation for a program that is in development. But even then, it seems the guy didn't look very hard for the documentation. Even incomplete the wiki was/is probably the best tool for a beginner together with the ghost shooter tutorial.

Being a huge Megaman fan I'll have to adress those first.

Classic series - Megaman 3 (first Megaman game i got)

X series - Megaman X2

Zero series - Megaman Zero 2

Ok, on to other games.

Terranigma

3D Dot Game Heroes

Demons Souls

Curse of Monkey Island

Worms 2/Armageddon

Silver

Guilty Gear XX2

Metal Slug (any game)

Castlevania 3

Ninja Gaiden NES Trilogy

Shadow of the Ninja

Golden Sun

XIII

Tales of Symphonia

Darksiders (completely love the artstyle in this one)

Super Street Fighter 4

Marvel vs Capcom 3

Resident Evil series

Magicka (quickly turned into a classic)

Castlevania Lords of Shadow

Metal Gear Solid 4

... aand of course Mario & Zelda games. Seems pointless to mention though...

I vote yes. Like linkman2004 I've always used the proper type anyways. I think having it be strongly typed would help keep things ordered.

buddy40: I'm pretty sure what they meant was that that sort of response is not conducive to the Construct community, and possible users might shy away from a seemingly negative community, which we seem to rapidly devolve into the longer these threads go on.

Ashley, since there seem to be a definite split here between people that are ok with the licensing model and those that aren't, I think it's time to cut out the community from the discussion. Take the responses and poll data you got from these threads and see if you can talk to a marketing consultant (or whatever they call themselves), if you're not doing that/planning on doing that already. I'm pretty sure that would be much more productive at this point.

It's great that you want to involve the community as much as you do (and it'd probably be a good idea to continue doing so), but in the end a community will almost always disagree with itself.

Only you guys should make the definitive decisions. They may be influenced by the community, but should not be mandated by it. Because then nothing happens when people start arguing.

Found this earlier, don't know if you're aware of this or not, so I'm posting it here (since the sf bug tracker is gone as far as I can tell)

I wanted to have two lines of text in my little test app for the touch plugin. So I did this

"Tex bla bla" & newline & "more text bla bla"[/code:2wyybcxq]
and got this:

<img src="http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j135/mr_norris/eh_what.jpg">

Here's the cap: [url=http://www.box.net/shared/7gj9vejnnx]http://www.box.net/shared/7gj9vejnnx[/url]

I think it's a fair enough deal, especially with the early adopter license thrown in. �19 for three years of updates is extremely nice.

I bought MMF2 when it was new. I jumped to Construct not because it was free, but because it was better! Don't get me started on Game Maker...

I think this licensing model sounds fine.

I'd like to mirror Zeno's question. When do you expect to start selling it?

What audio format are you using? Mp3 doesn't work good with looping. Ogg is much more suited to it.

The problem there is if what if they change their minds when they're done with a game? But it's an interesting idea.

Pay the percentage they saved or wait until their license has to be renewed for updates and pay full price then?

I'm throwing my $0.02 in now too.

A lot of people seem to disagree on the "subscription" model. Sounds fair enough to me, but I can see why people are throwing fits.

Megatronx had an interesting idea which I were also thinking about. What if you had some sort of advertisement like Spotify? Maybe not as intrusive as Spotifys (no sound for instance), but merely as a way to gain some small revenue from the free version and a less direct way to push viewers to buy the indie/commercial license. Add to that an advertisement space on the download page for the free version (though that might be pushing it).

I bought Renoise last fall and their licensing deal is pretty nice. Their demo has pretty much all features (even save) enabled with the exception of "render song", and the ability to use ASIO drivers. I played around with the demo for two months before I bought it. Mind you I bypassed the disabling of rendering by simply connecting Audacity directly to my sound card and simply recorded what played on the speakers.

I still bought it though. Their license worked like this. You pay �58 ( plus VAT ) for the license and for that you get a sample kit and free updates for a whole version. I bought my license at 2.6 so I have free updates until they hit 3.6, at that point to get further updates I have to pay an additional fee. But that fee is smaller than the first one, �48, because I had already bought the license once. Now, C2 doesn't use version numbers anymore but I think it could still be applied. But then I guess the rate builds are released would have to be more regular.

I had another idea, I'm just throwing these out for thought, not saying they 'should' be used.

If people are really stingy and want to pay even less ( ), what if they could opt in to having splash screens and such, insteead of having it simply be a nagging thing for free users?

By opting to allow splash screen and similar things they would get an X% reduction on the license cost when they buy their license. That way, you'd still sell a license, albeit at a lower price but with the benefit of more advertisement.

It doesn't really matter, does it? The old ones served their purpose.

Served their purpose? Yes, and well.

Could be improved? Definitely.

I'd suggest a new thread focused solely on the image/animation editor where people can post thoughts and ideas, before the editors have been worked on so much that it would be more trouble than it'd be worth changing them around.