maybe it is indeed a virus? I know the official r148 is not infected, but maybe the file you have has been compromised.

Did you download from scirra.com? Is it possible it could have gotten infected somehow? Try submitting the exe to jotti to see if any other anti-viruses report it as infected.

That being said, AVG is really bad (second only to norton anti virus), so it's likely that it's just a false positive.

I sent you an e-mail, [hidden]@sigsonic.com

It contains links, so it might have ended in your spam folder.

Do you already have partners capable of producing art? That's the most difficult part for me since I'm a designer/programmer/writer. I know a few illustrators that do comicbook art, but I don't have any expertise in the field to know whether the transition to hentai would be easy.

I'd love to hear about the kind of games you're expecting on your platform.

Do you want puzzle games, strip poker/solitaire, memory, etc, or do you want something more like dating sims and hentai VNs?

Or perhaps something more game-y altogether? I'm guessing visitors are looking more for porn than for games, but maybe that's just a prejudice.

You know, I've had some success overcoming construct 2's limitations via the SDK and editing XML, so I think the "you cannot code in c2" argument is somewhat flawed.

I wish we had better integration capabilities with the SDK, though, it's annoying when you have an extension/behavior that depends on another extension/behavior, and the lack of control options in the IDE is sometimes frustrating (the image editor can't be fully customized by the object calling it).

Still, it is there and it gets the job done. Besides, it forces you to conform to a system, so any plugins you make are readily reusable in other places. You can actually code in raw javascript.

I think the best answer can be found by looking at job posting trends:

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I wish there was an "upvote" button, this is extremely relevant and a mighty fine source.

I would still like to know if the sponsorship model is becoming a less viable option overall or just for flash devs.

And yet games can be representations of reality, and works of art. It's a whole different matter if they want to forbid its usage in commercial products (i.e. to prevent companies from marketing yogurt using the symbol to invoke an idea of "healthy"), private hospitals or the like, as such uses erode the glyph's meaning, which can be dangerous come wartime.

You are obviously better informed than I am, and you're probably (and I say probably not because I don't wish to concede to you, but because I don't have enough legal knowledge to confirm your position) correct that

using it indiscriminately can bring a lot of legal problems.

In my opinion, this is a thinly veiled attempt at censorship. It boggles my mind that such a simple symbol can be protected under copyright/trademark law. Maybe it's just the recent NSA/corruption scandals that have soured me to government control and are making me see everything as an attempt to stifle freedom of speech...

Are you an american developer? If not, I'd love to hear how you plan to overcome the amazon restriction on receiving the funding.

I'd also like to hear a comparison between kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms such as indiegogo.

PKrawczynski

What do you mean when you say "sponsors requirements are raising"? Are those requirements raising only in respect to flash, or are HTML5 games also affected?

I got the impression from your post that the entire game sponsorship model, regardless of platform, is becoming more competitive and profit margins are slimming. Is that the case? Or is it just for flash? If it is just for flash, can you give some examples of those extra requirements that didn't exist before?

Cheers!

What is your county anyways?

I don't think you can get in trouble for using such a symbol in a game, due to the fact that copyrights and trademarks only apply in the setting they reference. You cannot create a health NGO with the red cross symbol, but you sure can create a clothing store.

Besides, the red cross is much too simple, and as such any claims they might have are worthless. Beyond that, games are used to certain tropes, and such tropes are protected as public domain. Also, since they are an international humanitarian organization, it's extremely unlikely they'll take action against game developers.

In addition, they also apparently want to patent the "red crystal" and "red crescent", and since green/blue/orange crosses are being used worldwide as alternatives, it's not hard to imagine a similar misguided movement attempting to protect them. As much as I hate bringing up the slippery slope argument, I can see this becoming a "no colored iconography of any kind on white backgrounds" law.

The red cross society may plead and beg, but their request is quite frankly absurd, and game designers should purposefully ignore them.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, and as such my "legal" advice is worthless.

I would absolutely love this. The applications are immense, especially considering that you could modify the XML files that construct generates via some other source and have it spit out a game, or even a construct file. In fact, if the compiler is decoupled from the IDE, we can have some sort of server-side generated content... wow, I'm getting a ton of ideas, out of such a simple feature!

This absolutely has to be a paid version feature, I fully agree there, there's just too much potential for abuse.

This is brilliant! Ashley?

Ashley

How about an official JSON parser plugin with javascript notation? You could have it work like this: getJSONValue("player.attributes.health") or getJSONString("scoreboard[0].player.name")

Should be really simple to do, and sounds like a thing that should be made as an official plugin.