Thanks for advise Ashley and tim. I tried doing some dynamic performance stuff last project by the following

> Every tick.

>> If FPS is lower than X turn off feature.

>>If FPS is higher than Y turn on feature.

However, this can cause performance ping ponging. So I also tried

> Every tick.

>> If FPS is lower than X turn off feature.

However, any slow down of course turned the feature off. So then I pushed the FPS to an array every tick and took an average FPS over X records, BUT during that period any bad performance can be seen. So I guess I could still use this method but display an overlay to hide bad performance.

There is something that has been imagined by a prophet a long time before, something marvellous, amazing, we, simple humans, call it the "Option menu", you should try it, there are graphical options to help people with devices that have a hard time with the graphic aspect of the game, and also sometimes options to lessen the amount of CPU needed for, lets say, the environnement or the sounds effects.

(Sorry for the overcreative way to say "you could let the user choose the quality and other things himself so he can have the best experience", but it seems people have a hard time thinking about including options in their game sometimes.)

tgeorgemihai here is an exemple, the magic appears with the "place tiles" function. I execute it every 3 ticks just so you can drag n drop the circles to see it at runtime.

not the cleanest way, but, you could have a collision checker sprite, make it move through every cell in one tick (via loops), if it overlaps, create the tile at this position, else do not create it, might be able to pull off an exemple if you need it.

Tom

I currently mostly run on a limited connection with a limited netbook, so I though I'd disable images to just surf on the forum.

It looks actually good except for the top and bottom mostly, where it is kinda hard to see the texts, Could a simple (grey or green depending on the original look) background color (via stylesheeting I guess) be added to those sections (same kind of requests for orange buttons)?

Normally, doing a plugin to implement a sponsor API is doable (not sure there are even one exception, as most of them are just javascript), it is just not the "normal use of C2" so most people just do not want to do it, or just do not know (as it requires javascript knowledge).

Heck, maybe even the Execute javascript of the browser object could be used for that. Is it worth the time however, depends.. if you have to implement it for each publisher, it could be bothersome for some.

Everytime people wants to have easy money, problems arises in mid term:

html5 Publishers wanted it, so they asked for quick games that would run on the older phones, with weird requirement, for a good price, people did them.

and it was kind of easy (workarounds needed, but still easier when you found them), with C2, it was even more easy, and performances were great, so they did thé cheap games.

but then it was too late, publishers were already seen as "easy money", so they had to face the flooding of cheap that, be honest, is the easiest to make run on their low end device requirements.

another exemple:

at a time, some people, called web designer I think, did everything to make their websites work, mostly ignoring specifications and using browser sniffing, as "people want it to work! wé need money!", guess what, that does not forgive that you did your job badly. browser makers have sabotage their user agent and other things to support your crap, web tutorials are full of "tricks and workarounds for older versions of IE", and some recognized as good web developers don't give à penny for spécification respect, and one codebase for everyone, "open web" lol.

same goes for full of ads websites, and ultra mail spam

conclusion: easy money is either not reliable, or will hurt your profession later on, most html5 publishers are really not worth it, as they feel like thé webdesigner case I talked about, they are spammed by crap from everyfront, but most desirves it.

of course thos post reflects my opinion.

9.- do your job correctly, and work with people that do their job correctly, rather than "trying to look pro" (funfact, professionnals dont try to look pro, they just are.)

I am not sure that, license wise, you can virtualise a mac os on a non mac computer.

posting to follow it more easily, I like the concept of an html5 OS, I hope spécifications and rules of développement would be really emphasised, as they are important.

also, if you only want to see in which quadrant you are, a simple solution:

cos(angle) is positive when the angle is to the right, negative on the left, 0 when 90° or -90°

sin(angle) is positive when the angle is to the bottom, negative on the top, 0 when 180° or 0°

> Also why nobody mentionned the fact some people have to download a pirate copy to make it work sometimes? (Drm not working correctly makes us sad).

>

And this is an example for the last sentence above. Why do you think so? Why do they "have to"? If your smartphone doesn't work, you wait for the manufacturer to repair it. And if it doesn't get repaired in an acceptable amount of time, you have the right to get refunded. The same is true for software. But why waiting for an acceptable amount of time, if one can get a pirated version that works, for free and immediatly. There we are again. It's morally wrong. Do you see my point?

I see the point, I was just surprised to not have seen it being used already, as it is one of the harder one to counter (I actually prefer to have my not working game and remember the sins of the one who decided this drm was a good idea, rather than to download it and play it, and forget, "even if people are blocked by the drm, they will download it by other means and so not be blocked" OR THEY WON'T, and will not forgive easily, pirates in that case actually do the job of the ones who had to verify the drm was not an issue, which is even worse, since honest will have a worse experience that others)

In most of my cases, the acceptable amount of time was not enough for them to fix it, never got to play some of my games because of that, so I kept them, and have all the informations to not choose a game in the future, still looking for patches sometimes.

talking of that, I happenned to apply a community made installer for a game (said installer required the CD, and just adapted the install to patch the game to work correctly on newer systems, and also did it work in a no CD required way), I am wondering if that is considered legal or not now that i think about it.

— holy horsie O-o that is worrying.

> This has the ability to run any file you wish.

>

Have we already gone that far in science? Thanks for the information!

node webkit is the "computer executable" wrapper used in C2, it adds some features over chrome, notably open, run and write files on the system, but you will have an exe at the end.