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  • they don't work

  • There is no legit reason to block links. The whole point of these games and internet in general is to link things. When a sponsor pays you $5000+ for exclusive rights to a game they are really paying for those More games links. That is what brings traffic to their sites and makes the investment worthwhile. Without those links the entire casual / browser gaming industry never would have happened. Scirra, Game maker and so on , the whole industry would not exist today without those links.

  • On Scirra arcade links are blocked no matter what you do, so I know they will not work there. As for sites taking game from Scirra Arcade I guess they are simply linking to your game hosted on Scirra arcade and since it's still on Scirra arcade server, links are blocked.

    It is absurd that they would do this, and they don't seem to want to explain why they block links.

  • Scirra doesn't block links on other sites, only on their arcade. The reason you have to use a button is because then it counts as user initiated action, using browser object to automatically open links when clicking other objects/sprites within games is done to prevent games automatically opening new tabs. In other words it seems like clicking on objects other than buttons is like onLayoutStart opening a link, doesn't count as user initiated.

    If other sites iFramed your game from scirra arcade and Scirra arcade blocks links, then maybe they would be blocked on all those sites. Not sure about that one.

    Exporting from Construct 2/3 to scirra arcade may do something to links, again, not sure.

    But yeah, I am not uploading any more games to Scirra arcade because of links being blocked. I don't see the point.

  • As somebody posted a while ago, browsers will sometimes prevent opening new tabs or windows if you use on object tap or click. Use button object, place it above your link objects, set its opacity to 0, then it will work ( unless a site specifically prevents it from opening links from iFrame or something like that ). Scirra arcade blocks links, seems absurd that they would do that, but they do for some reason.

    As for the other issue ( scirra ad appearing ), I don't know

  • [quote:1e9xqkjv]Construct 3 is still in beta version. Are there not better ways to make money from your games than ads?

    Construct 2 is not beta and none of those things really seem to be working right now. So if that isn't going to be fixed then at least hurry up and implement it in Construct 3.

    I would have bought Construct 3 subscription right away if it had either working ads or IAP. I am hoping it happens soon. Unfortunately casual gaming market is used to free games and the only way to make money is ads or IAP. Sure, one could sell licenses to portals too, but shouldn't a developer be able to choose which way to go?

    Well, anyway, if ads work and mobile exporter works You have my $100

  • Absolutely, Ads and IAP ( or at least one of those ) must work and work reliably, otherwise there is not much point to this ( some, but not much ).

    I really don't care about subscription vs. one time payment or how much it costs as long as it works. Construct 2/3 are pretty good at what they do, but just as Scirra wants to make money from their hard work, so do we game developers, would be nice to get paid for our hard work.

  • Array is where you set your numbers, here 0-4, but you can go to as many as you like, then the sub-event goes randomly through that array and populates Array2. After each pick, selected number is removed from the first array, so there are no repeats.

    Array is set to 5,1,1 to start with ( You can use push to add more numbers later )

    Array2 is set to 0,1,1

  • Maybe I am missing something obvious here, but although I can do it by using multiple arrays, wondering if there is a solution that would let me use a single multidimensional array for this: In flash it is very easy, in construct I can apparently only sort X, Y and Z, In flash I can sort it any way I want, by specific column in Y for example.

    Anyway this is what it would look like in Flash using multidimensional arrays:

    Create array like this for each team : Array.push({name:teamA, rank:6, score:0, power:6, win:0, dr:0, lose:0, pt:0, gfor:0, gagainst:0, gd:0, posic:0});

    In Flash I can sort based on any of those, name, rank, power, score, goals, etc.....

    Then with code below do what I need to do. Sort by total points, and if points are equal between teams, sort those by goal differential, so teams with better goal differential come on top. With a single array in Construct 2 simple enough to sort team standings by total points, but not by goal differential because it will not sort points and goal differential values independently ( both stored in Y columns )

    for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)

    {

    Array.posic = 0;

    for (j = 0; j < 8; j++)

    {

    if (Array.pt < Array[j].pt and i != j)

    {

    Array.posic -= 1;

    }

    if (Array.pt == Array[j].pt and i != j)

    {

    if (Array.gfor - Array.gagainst < Array[j].gfor - Array[j].gagainst and i != j)

    {

    Array.posic -= 1;

    }

    }

    }

    }

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  • And if they could implement Leaderboards we can use in games, not only in Scirra arcade. Mochi was pretty good with this a while back. I know they were an advertising company so a little different, but hey wouldn't this help Construct's cause? It would save evrybody a lot of time, not having to be jerked around with these other "solutions"

    By the way, Scirra arcade seems to block outgoing more games links. That is a bit of a WTF thingy.

  • [quote:2qo8ix2o]Also don't forget that all major browser vendors now went on a way to block Flash by default. It has too many problems.

    Don't believe the hype. Flash has no more problems than HTML 5. The real reason it is being killed off is Apple and Google want to funnel all traffic into their app stores and don't want people playing free games on websites out of their control. It is as simple as that.

    [quote:2qo8ix2o]Those things that flash could do so easily were also the cause of the security issues.

    "Angry Flappy Tower Defence needs access to your cam"

    Yeah, right.

    Well, Apple and Google have access to your cam, mic, location and much more without flash. So do malicious apps in their stores.

    Anyway, Flash player was targeted by malware guys because it was everywhere, not because it was/is less secure, just as windows is targeted over OSX. Huge user base, that is all. I have less problems playing flash player browser games than HTML 5 games. And I did test all browsers. IE 11 still cannot even loop or even load sounds properly. Chrome and Firefox have their issues too. Flash player works 99% of the time, just as it always has.

    Anyway, what we need from Construct is better monetization and possibly asset protection tools. I haven't done that much research, but it seems like a pain in the ass just inserting pre-loader ads or between levels in HTML 5 exported Construct games. Actually I am open to suggestions here. Which ad network plays nicely with Construct 2 or 3 browser games?

  • Adobe animate is Flash, they just changed the name, but it is the same thing. Problem with this is ( at least last time I checked it ) you still had to export .swf/flash if you wanted to make games I am talking about. HTML 5 export was only good for animations and maybe very simple games. The problem is not Flash or Adobe animate , problem is HTML 5, some things are still so much faster to do in Flash.

    So, yeah, HTML 5 runs everywhere, but some things /apps that can be done in 2 days if exported as .swf will take 2 months or never with HTML 5.

    Case in point, an app that can record sound and play it back using device microphone ( that would be just one part of the app ). In Flash it would take me a day to do and it would work perfectly, in Construct 2 basically impossible to do, even Unity can't do it easily.

    And let's not forget how much smoother the whole game distribution and monetization thing was with Flash games.

    But the two biggies want to funnel all traffic into their shitty app stores, so can't have people playing flash games for free on other web sites. That is the way it is.

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