> The free edition isn't limited to 30 days - it lasts forever.
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> You can make small games in 100 events. I'm sorry if that's a difficult limit for you, but we can't give away the full software for free, otherwise it wouldn't exist at all! No paid edition, no free edition, no Construct 2 at all. So I'm afraid we have to stick with what we've done so we can keep developing it.Ashley2011-12-15 18:04:49
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Construct 2 is biased against strategy games, given that global variables count as an event.
One could do a work around using arrays, but global variables are included in the drop down list, thus making it more intuitive to use global variables as opposed to a dictionary or array object.
I agree that the global variables could be not counted(but local variables are just too convenient to not be counted), however, even for strategy games, you should keep their number pretty low (ressources would be easily stored into dictionnaries, and having different dictionnaries for the different players, global variables being used for values that are global to the game itself).
Also, the free version of C2 is here to learn the program before buying it, of course it is not as convenient to use, but it is worth it and small projects can do without needed that much convenience.