It should work (but will consistantly work like this)

Do your function is included inside the event sheet?

I also recommand that first you learn to use the engine, since mobile is still tricky to get working while learning how to use C2 at the same time

"Compatibility

The following features are not supported in CocoonJS. If any of them are used, Construct 2 will print a message to the debug log saying that they are not supported.

• The form control plugins Textbox and Button are not supported.
• The XML object is not supported.
• The Facebook object is not supported.

- The letterbox fullscreen modes are not supported. If they are selected, it will fall back to 'Scale outer' mode instead.

- The Text plugin's 'Set web font' action is not supported.

• The WebStorage plugin's session storage is not available. Use local storage or global variables instead."

Either use crosswalks or design you game to adapt itself to multiple aspect ratios

I might add to this that yes, C2 has some problems on mobile (it is more mobile that have problems with HTML5 but whatever):

(Before everything, I do HTML5, I bought C2 for that and not for pseudo-native applications or something else..)

-the fact is that if you plain on doing Web HTML5 you'll still struggle with that anyway, and would have to do even more work, but yes, it can improve, I agree on that point (even though it shouldn't have to improve on old devices that haven't what it takes to even read HTML5 I think, but just my opinion).

On the other hand, you have mobile via wrapper, yes:

-CocoonJS is something I never liked, I just ignore it, not a thing I'll ever use in my life, I'd rather not making .apk nor iOS apps than using it.

-Crosswalks is chrome for android, and since I am doing HTML5, it is perfect for my needs, my tests (without audio I must say) were great, maybe it is because I always program in a safe way, so i can optimise easily, I bet that crosswalks is already better than CocoonJS for some games, and it'l improve even more, not worried.

As for the marketing of C2, I agree that it could be clearer, but if you plain on buying it, the free edition is already a good bet to learn to use it, you can export to HTML5 that you can test on a mobile browser so you have a first look, and for cocoonJS, I'm not sure if you can package C2 HTML5 exports with it to test (I mean license wise, pretty sure you can upload HTML5 files to cocoonJS for testing in theory), I think we need an awnser to that question, so peope can test it first.

"These other frameworks are flexible enough to allow you to use your own formats, and allow you to build your own tools - what is called a "pipeline". Do you think WOW programmers did everything in code? No! They obviously built their own map editors, dialogue editors, and everything else they needed to make a game.

My point is that C2 is very impenetrable if you want to build your own tools to help you make your game - right now the only option is to crack open the XML files it generates and hope you didn't have a syntax error somewhere. I want ashley to make an IDE SDK so that I can make my own integrated editors to use inside C2."

When I do a "big" thing in C2, I create my own formats and tools inside C2 (HTML5 based tools), based on string elements, and I use a decoder Event sheet that take the file, interpret it so the game can use it, maybe I am missing the point here..

"The problem with C2 is that, often, when you run into a problem, you have to wait for Ashley to fix it. There are no official ways to fix things yourself. It's too focused on beginners, and advanced users (those who know javascript, even if just a little) are left wanting."

The problem with letting the user correct themselves is that at the end, I'm pretty sure the bugs wouldn't be reported (I know people that won't report a bug even when they know it perfectly, they prefer to wait, imagine if you give them ways to workaround.....)

Fimbul

I am not in front of C2, but maybe the expressions:

Self.x +(100-LayerParallaxX(Self.LayerName))*WindowWidth/100

Self.y +(100-LayerParallaxY(Self.LayerName))*WindiwHeight/100

Would return the actual x and y position relative to the layout

Edit:replace self by your object name

But again, how is that possible without making the game suffer? It's like playing a first-person shooter with just a keyboard. It's technically doable, but not exactly recommended. So why should we require all C2-games to be playable with just a keyboard? And for that matter, what if we don't target PCs at all? Android is supported, and it's easy (and cheap) to get a working gamepad for an Android-tablet. I have one for my iPad, and it (should) work on Android, too. And lat I checked, tablets don't have keyboards at all.

We were implying that you were more into supporting multiplatform I think, with the most possible things (since this is something that most devellopers try to think about), if you really want to support only gamepad, you could, just make sure that there isn't problems (I don't think every gamepad is reacting the same way), and that the player knows it.

At the end, try ans test, so you know what to expect.

Also for your FPS comparison, I know people that will enjoy FPs with a Keyboard+mouse, but will don't even bother try with controllers (and I know that they think like that too for other genres), it is also possible to have a keyboard on an android device too, so at the end, the question is more on "do you have time to implement it well?" more than "is it better for the game?"

bremen : What is exactly hapenning, and which wrapper are you using? (CocoonJs I don't really know a lot so if it is it, maybe other people could help more than myself)

JJList

This reply is a bit late but as for the original clearing I couldn't get it any faster by not using sqrt.

As for using the pixels from the canvas object here's an example:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/542 ... leMap.capx

It is very slow, for me the whole bit takes about 5 seconds to transfer the canvas to the tilemap.

So on a whim I also did a test with a snapshot and straight javascript using the browser object since I didn't want to make a plugin.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/542 ... lemap.capx

For me it takes about 3 seconds. After looking at the times I think it can be made faster by bypassing the array and just converting the pixels to a format the tilemap can load. But that isn't a simple task as the format is pretty complicated.

I was wondering, using a 16*16 tilemap (256 colored pixels), could we potentially have a way to load an 256 color image and choose one particular value that would count as transparent if we could read the different color identifiers of the image (like the top left pixel would be the transparent one) without too much trouble performance wise?

Because I think this is a good concept, but I don't know how much time it would take to perform identification process.

> Don't do it, it's unethical and disrespectful to your customers. Contact real reviewers and let them do a honest review.

>

I mean the whole notion of paying for a review is idiotic, because how can you trust the opinion of the reviewer to not be biased when they are paid for it from the app developer??

It just seems like marketing is so crucial (no matter how awesome your game is, if nobody knows about it... ) and a lot of guides from other successful indie devs mention how they spend $1,000 minimum on marketing their games.

I never actually tried to market something, but marketing is a pretty complex thing, I think if really you have to make marketing for your games (which maybe you doesn't, maybe just finding let's players or reviewer to test your game freely can be enough sometimes), just find someone who can really do it for you, don't be fooled by spammers.

If you want to propose your game to let's players, just ask them, the most you should do would be give them free access to the game at most IMO

The $1000 things feels really weird, like, seriously, I think only people whom actually made a decent amount of money will spend that much in this, not someone that doesn't make money from anything.I could be wrong though.

Aphrodite

that would be cool. I would love a Linux and Mac version so that when I get a Mac I can use C2.

I guess maybe this threw me

"to let it run on Chrome cross-platform? "

is he referring to C2 running in Chrome?

Yep, Native client is a technology that uses C/C++ libraries inside chrome from what I've understood, although i'm not sure off how many browsers have that, but the basic concept of C2 in browser is nice, however I think C2 doesn't use C/C++, but maybe I'm wrong

jayderyu : I think it talked about the editor itself, to have it cross platform (not only windows)