It would be great if there was a halfway point between testing the game on your own computer and putting it officially on the Scirra Arcade. A section called Demo/Prototype might be useful for people who don't want their product judged as a full game, but still want other people to test it and give comments and feedback.

Excellent

I released Block Mover 3 but everyone keeps playing Block Mover 2 and Block Mover. Is there a way to delete or hide BM1 and BM2 so that people can play the updated version instead of the old ones?

Sorry! :)

Yann, yes. That's exactly what I think too.

You know how when you choose to spawn an object, and it gives you a choice of possible objects? It could be like that.

Hi.

Just a suggestion here, it would be great if you could swap objects within code a bit more easily. At the moment if I want to replace an event for Man1, I have to basically create a new event for Man2. It would be great if I could just drag Man2's icon onto where it says Man1 in the code and it would replace it (That used to happen in a similar game editor called The Games Factory/Multimedia Fusion).

Maybe you could do a kind of basic check to make sure the objects are of the same type, so that they would both contain the exact same choices?

Thank you.

Most of my flash games are between 5-20 minutes average play.

Then we have Minecraft and Project Zomboid which are sandboxy and last a long time.

I'd say quality is better than quantity!

I'm getting a bug where the browser scrolls when up, down or space is touched.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try and work harder at making it touch compatible in the future. Also randomising the map might be a better solution. I'll try both.

Hi. I published a game to the Scirra Arcade.

If you could test it and give me some constructive criticism I would be most grateful.

scirra.com/arcade/puzzle/54/block-mover-2

PS Let me know how it works on iPhone/iPad/Android phones, I haven't been able to test this yet.

Ah okay. Thank you.

I can understand everyone's concerns about money, after all, it attracts many developers purely for that reason alone. I published several games on Kongregate but I haven't made a massive amount of money.

I definitely agree that going straight into a game and thinking about making money straight away isn't a good strategy. On the other hand, you never know whether a game you make will be the next Angry Birds or Game Dev Story. Just working on my portfolio and getting experience using other engines is a good starting point, regardless of wealth.