I'm working on a leveling system myself. Just wondering, but, where were you going to put your save file anyway? (Unless you don't need one.) Saves have to be locked up tight too.

I wouldn't worry so much about people cheating. In single player games, if someone cheats. They're only cheating themselves. If they've paid for a game, then moreso. (Though it's fine to cheat once you've played through it).

Actually, I just beat Dawn of Sorrow yesterday. I've been studying how they do things so I went to look at a sprite sheet to see how they do their animations and noticed the seperate sprites and all everything. That's to be expected since it would save a lot of resources (weapon sprite vs player and weapon sprite) and be much easier to deal with.

That's what I said, and it keeps things neatly in nicely optimized pow2 sizes.

Have the actual sprite use a stronger transparency that decreases per frame? Or put them on a layer and change the layer opacity instead?

Not sure anyone will be able to know what the problem is, but it might help if you posted all your system specs.

If you catch Lucid in chat or he sees this thread he might be able to help. He knows lots about python.

Yay, you finally posted! Anyway, I thought you got the timer issue fixed after we went through it that time in chat?

I don't know why it's crashing for you though.

you could use it to store levels, call it DLC so people fork out for them XD

lol

Off the top of my head, Id say it would be useful for when you only want one collision mask. Plus its a much easier, and quicker way to get the mask where it needs to be. True you can just use a sprite as a dummy, but setting it up, and the fact that you use dummies for tons of different things should make it worth it.

Ok I see what you mean now. Yep that would be pretty useful to have!

Hmm, in what ways would it be useful? Like in a real world (game) scenario. What could it be used for?

Yeah, people do need educating on the pow2 rule, and why taking screenshots of other games and trying to use them just isn't a good idea, lol.

You probably would be better off just experimenting and doing little tests instead of jumping right in trying to make a game. As simple as construct can appear, there's still a lot that needs to be picked up, for even the basic types of games.