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  • Thanks ThePhotons, cool plugin!

    I've looked through the "actions" list, and I can't find a way to communicate (chat) with other users. Have I missed something, can you help please?

  • So much now, it's just ridiculous... I seem to remember Monty Python wrote a song which sums up the current situation rather well!

  • Great concept... looks very polished! Nice work

  • Jayjay I totally agree...

    I'm sure some devs ARE using images which are too large, or using too many objects with pathfinder behaviour, and making many other noob mistakes when designing and developing their games!

    But that doesn't mean we're all making those mistakes! I've read all of the different 'performance tips' advice in the manual (several time over), as I'm sure you have too!

    We've adhered to all of the advice that's available, but we're still not getting the performance we need!?

  • Like many here, I've been using C2 for quite some time, and I think it's a fantastic tool! It helped me to get started as a game developer, when I just didn't have the knowledge or experience to try more complex game engines.

    Sadly I've come to the conclusion that I need to move to greener pastures for now. Unfortunately I've been hearing the same old excuses week after week... month after month, since I started using C2 some 3.5 years ago. And for a while I kept hoping the improvements we needed were just around the corner (as promised). But the same problems I experienced when I began using C2 (poor performance, lack of robust 3rd party wrappers etc.), still persist. Despite the many assurances we constantly see in the forum.

    I know things have improved since the early days, and I realise it can't be easy when you have such a small team. So the developers have done a superb job under the circumstances. But unfortunately the main issues preventing us from releasing high quality games on mobile (with good, consistent performance), are still there. And sadly I don't see this changing any time soon.

    I truly hope the developers can prove me wrong, and turn things around. And I'll still keep an eye on all things C2, dropping by every now and then to see what's new. But for the time being it makes more sense for me to focus on learning to use an engine that will allow me to create the games I want, rather than forcing me to curb my expectations.

  • Hi laserbeak43,

    CocoonJS/PhoneGap/appMobi haven't been openly supported in the exporter options for a while now. Although personally I still prefer using CocoonJS!

    You can still find them, just right click on the export pop-up window, and select "Show deprecated exporters". This should magically make them appear

    Hope that helps

  • Very cool

  • No problem fldr, glad to help.

    Yeah, we're pretty new to video editing ourselves, but there are loads of resources out there to help you.

    Large file sizes could be due to the format of your finished video. For example avi files are much larger than mp4. Also some video editing packages let you choose a quality setting for your video, and the lower the quality setting, the smaller the end file.

    We're not experts, but if you get stuck give us a shout and we'll try to help if we can.

    Anyway stick with it, and you'll get there in the end

  • Thanks

    For the game on the tablet, we just recorded some general gameplay. Then we added the footage on to a second layer in the video editor, and sized that layer to fit into the tablet screen.

    Hope that helps.

  • Thanks for the support plemo antares330 we're glad you liked the trailer

    antares330, it was all fairly straight forward really. We used lots of layer scaling and scroll to, with some bullet movement and a little bit of sine movement too.

  • Egon, very unique artwork, and looks fun to play! Great work, I hope it does well!

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  • Somebody nice work, looks like a really useful tool!

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