Hi Graham

Unfortunately, I am not allowed to give out the tutorials etc that I have created for the students attending our college. But you could follow a similar plan to what I have listed above if that would help. You can find quite a lot of complete tutorials on this site and also some on youtube.

Hope this helps!

I use Construct 2 extensively with my students studying 2D Game Development in Western Australia.

We have a Moodle course setup which consists of 20 weeks. Throughout the course the students create the following:

1. The Ghostshooter tutorial by Scirra

2. A Water Rescue game tutorial (created by me)

3. Save the Monkeys tutorial (copy uploaded to this site)

4. The Jungle Platformer tutorial by Scirra

5. Making and Animating own sprites tutorial (created by me)

6. The students then work on their first assessment - a platformer based on 4. above, using their own backgrounds, sprites, music and adding/changing some of the functionality

7. Creating a Physics based game and exporting to an Android phone (a youtube tutorial)

8. The Monkey Jump tutorial (copy uploaded to this site)

9. A game tutorial covering particle effects (created by me)

10. Students then work on a second assessment which uses physics as a basis for their game

This all works very well and the students enjoy using Construct 2. We had previously used Gamemaker in the past, but Construct 2 is much better in my opinion.

The only problem I found was ensuring that the students download (at home) and use the same version that is set up in the computer labs at the college to ensure that their games work at both locations. It is difficult to get our IS department to update the software in the computer labs as often as a new version becomes available.

Other than that, fabulous software!!

Hehe, I just resolved my issue by turning on the second monitor...

Shall check out your hints though. <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Errr, well it has to do with having used a second monitor, then leaving Construct 2 for a while, coming back and not turning on the second monitor.....

The appropriate event/action dialog box was appearing on the monitor that was not turned on.....

I can hear everyone laughing!!!

Ooops! Found the problem, I don't dare mention what it was, I'll leave it up to others to guess.... <img src="smileys/smiley9.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

I was just hoping someone else may have experienced similar problems and may have an answer for me. It just seems strange that all was going well, then suddenly, not...

Looks like I may have to stick with using the old laptop, at least Construct 2 works on that one.

Thanks for your help.

I have a confusing problem with Construct 2 freezing when I try to add either a new event or an action. It has been working fine, until today. The same thing happens whether I try to add events/actions to either an existing game or a new one. I am using the latest release of r95.

The games load and run without any problems, it's just when adding the events or actions. However, I don't seem to have the same problem when working with Construct 2 (and the same games) on another laptop.

I have checked that I have the latest drivers installed and run a full scan. I have also reinstalled Construct 2.

My laptop specs are:

Intel Core i7, 2.20ghz, 8gb RAM, Windows 7 64 bit, AMD Radeon 6750M, mobile Intel HD Graphics

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

I am also planning on introducing Construct 2 to my students in first semester of 2012 as part of their Certificate III in Interactive Game Development. After trialling many different game engines over the past two weeks, I have finally decided on Construct 2. I am very impressed and am looking forward to see the engine developed.