Some tutorials on making animations for Construct would be very useful, in my opinion.

Hiya,

I'm Fondis, 16, living in Australia. I've planned to get into the games industry for a few years now, and of course, pretty much everywhere says that you should just start making games. So that's exactly what I'm doing, now that I've found a program that I can use without needing to do any programming.

Wow, the amount of help on the forums is great.

That comment about the else was spot on, same about using the random. As for the is 0 = 0, that was intended to run every time, so that I wouldn't have to wonder if the powerups weren't spawning or if I was just unlucky. It was originally is random(9) = 0.

Regardless, I think I can confidently say that everything's working fine now, so thanks again to both of you.

Thanks for the reply,

I can see that the clamp function will be really useful, and it works exactly as I had hoped. As for the else, it seems like that isn't the problem at all. One of the powerups just won't show up, even when I place it directly on the layout. I'll keep looking around, it's probably just something small that I'm missing.

-Edit-

I found and fixed the problem, it's not as clean as I'd like, but it works. So that's all of my questions answered, so thanks for the help.

Hi,

Before I start, I'd like to say that I love Construct so far, it seems great. I'm making a small game to get used to using it, but I'm having a few problems:

-Firstly, is there a way to change the 'facing' for an object, without rotating the object itself. For instance, I'm making a shooter, and when bullets are spawned they move in the direction of the facing. However, it seems that the facing defaults to the right, and I want them facing up. I worked around it by drawing up all my sprites facing to the right and then rotating them in construct, but I was just wondering if there was an easier way around this that I was missing.

-Secondly, the wrap behaviour doesn't seem to be working for me. It wraps both vertically and horizontally, even when I only have horizontally ticked. Also, is there a way for me to block moving off the edges at all, instead of wrapping or just going on forever?

-Lastly, I'm having trouble using the else function. When you destroy a rock, there's a random chance that a powerup will show up. Then, there's a random chance that it will be such-and-such powerup, and then there's a random chance that it will be this powerup, or that one. Or at least, that's what's meant to happen, but I can't get it to work.

Her's the .cap in case you want to look at it.

(I changed some variables so that the powerups will appear every time, so that I can test it better)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4649219/SpaceGameTest.cap