FireLight

Thanks for your explanation/clarification. You've butted up against one of the inherent limitations of JavaScript running in a non-browser environment viz. its lack of an import/include/require facility, like that enjoyed by C/Java/Perl/PHP ....

Until JavaScript adds this (or the Scirra team modifies their engine to provide for loading an edithelper.js, as for common.js), dropping in the source code itself would seem to be your only option

FireLight

1) If you only want to include the code in edittime.js and not in runtime.js, why can you not simply code it directly into edittime.js itself?

2) What exactly are you wanting to include in your edittime.js?

3) Why do you call them "common functions"? What are they common to? (common.js is necessarily common to both edittime.js and runtime.js - that's what 'common' means, but what does it mean for you?)

I have a problem with this plugin, with Firefox, someone tryed to play devmidgard.com/games/infection/index.html and when you click any of the buttons they just disappear ...

Confirmed. OK in Chrome and Safari, though.

... Could some1 take the browser client-side code, and put it on his own site (Else he can't change to code) And connect from there to my server? ... I suppose IF the server only accepts website requests from his own domain, then this could not happen?

Yes, you're quite right. It's known in the trade as 'same origin policy'. More about it here.

... Could someone download the code of a multiplayer webgame, "hack it" set it up on a different location and connect it to the game server? ...

I think not. No multiplayer game server that had even basic security measures would allow downloadng of its code.

pinastro

Surely arrays are the way to go? Representing a 2D matrix as a 2D array is the natural implementation. Any alternative representation would end up looking like an array anyway. So why would you not want to use arrays?

And here's another gaming vet who tells us "Why HTML5 will succeed for gaming".

And what's more, gives Scirra first mention among "great companies that have been working hard to improve both the development process and actual gameplay".

looniegames

See this thread about the ExitGames Photon server: Integration with Photon Cloud: Multiplayer, particularly my post of 7 July, introducing my experimental multiplayer plugin. I'm keen for folks to try it out and give me feedback!

P.S. Ah, I see Kyatric got in just ahead of me - I'm very happy to have him pointing people in the same direction <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle">

Multiplayer games are generally understood to refer to "games that can be played online by multiple users in different areas". A key requirement is a server that can manage player interactions. Implementing such a server is beyond the (current) scope of Construct 2 - and probably beyond the skillset of most users of Construct 2.

A few plugins have been developed for Construct 2 which enable the client-side interactions with a multiplayer server. (For example, I've developed an experimental plugin which interacts with a Photon game server.) Do a Forum serach for 'multiplayer', and you'll find discussions of these plugins - and of multiplayer issues in general.

Neither good nor bad, IMO. It's really just formalising the current situation.

As Ian Elliot says further on, "My guess is that Chrome and Firefox will adopt as much of the new stuff as possible and Microsoft will simply pick which bits most suit its corporate interests" - and that's exactly what's been the situation for quite some time now, with IE not a suitable vehicle for many HTML5 games.

So, in a word, SNAFU.

... what's been surprising, exciting, inspiring more and more every day is its community ... (Ash & Tom are part of this community as well, not unreachable godlike figures)

My favourite "feature" in C2 is you.

Kyatric

<img src="smileys/smiley20.gif" border="0" align="middle"> Very well said ! So true! I couldn't agree more!

For all of you in this topic who have made a video tutorial, please consider submitting a new tutorial and post the link to the vid in it (notifying in the title that it is a video tutorial).

Will do!

My favourite feature? No contest - it's the JavaScript SDK.

So my entry is a video that helps get you up and running with making plugins for yourself.

Part 1 is now online here - and I'm rushing to get Part 2 completed before the deadline <img src="smileys/smiley11.gif" border="0" align="middle">

<UPDATE: 19 July in NZ - but still 18 July in the UK>

Part 2 is now online here. And with my eye on the flying monkey, I've given my entry a snappier YouTube title.