If a player is the position to require randomizer prediction security. They will have the team, talent or money to do so. As it is most people who use MP don't need an advanced randomizer to avoid prediction.

Though I agree that Scirra does tend to market C2 as a "We do it all for you" tool maker. However I think that's a mistake on their part and hurts them in the long run. But that's another discussion.

Random() can't be used for cheating. The concept is that by taking enuogh samples of results. They can produce preditictive results. Then they can create tools to exploit prediction.

What device did the game bog down on?

Bl4ckSh33p

Part of larger more robust systems say guild wars/ WoW will also use partition trees such as quad trees. These can also be used in the network to determine who get's messages and who needs to recieve messages. C2 super duper easy to use system however sacrifises flexibity for ease of use. However you can still use C2 MP core functionality to continue to do so.

For me the MP did not do the required job. So I work around it. I also structured my game to work more like a PSO rather than WoW. Where there is a shared lobby, but when the players advenure together then it's changed. This is pretty easy stuff. Players leave Room and join Team Leader Hosted room when they enter the dungeon.

I found a lot of work arounds that I'm happy with. So I have no blockers to create MMO's, however this does require more work than just simple click and drag.

My Derelict Project(sig) goes into this. When I have the time to work on it. It's been a couple of months. but I will be back. The server system is down so you can't click and try. plus people need to actually be playing to really see MP work maybe someday.

Joannesalfa

That is a fantastic answer. I really could see a few videos here and there. volcanic backdrop. City street backgrounds. Or how about Cyberpunk video adds on billboards going by.

I only did a cursory look. But as I understand it Apple/Google do not allow any IAP purchases to other services. I didn't hunt down any details. But if PassKit doesn't use the Apple store. That would be the reason it failed. Again though this was just a cursory look. It's possible if PassKit does support Apple store then Passkit may need to update.

Personally I think the OP should try this out. I'm sure this could work great to an extent. It's just that I think this would be best used for high frame count objects, that are few and far between. CPU/GPU acceleration. In either even there is a reason why the industry doesn't use video's as the primary form of animation.

As an example. This could work well for animated backgrounds. Interactable characters in adventure games. Monsters in Final Fantasy combat.

However I don't think these would work well in games where it's used for the player in a platformer. I think the buffering for the video would causes visual latency.

Also here is a question. What about transparency? Can video's have transparency?

andreyin

I'm pretty sure even on Mac NodeWebkit is Chrome based and no related to the WebGL Safari.

I may suggest seeing if the intel card is blacklisted. Possibly the current OSX drivers for the GPU might be off. But this shouldn't be related to WebGL for Safari.

I can't imagine you could have too many. video is similar to music streaming.

Slice of data is read.

Slice is unpacked <===== CPU HOG

slice is rendered

slice is destroyed

on pc you could probably get a way with a good handful. Maybe even many primary objects. However on mobile this technique would probably die and cause the device to burn in glory.

newt

The Tv Remote is cool. What kind of Tv interaction were you doing? what was the remote device on the TV to recieve the info?

IR, BlueTooth, remote html commands?

FYI. C2 can work with DOM objects and produce fluid UI web design. You could very much do a full content based website using C2. And in many regards it would be little different than say purely language side created site. Except.

It would be a pain in the ass to design a full content site using C2 and as Ashley says. Offer a poor system for content searching. however let's not forget the glut of Flash sites that were out there and popular. I'm sure you can still find sites like that.

Also there is still fine reason to use C2. you can use C2 as a website app.

Personally as a pure website creator I wouldn't use it. but you can and still maintain fluid responsive ui.

I'm going to lean that a new randomizer is the responsibility of the game developer. Not the tool creator. I know where your coming from. I am designing a game with random loot tables, randomized dice. But I'd rather that not be in Ashley's hands. I would rather do it myself for my own security. I personally will use Random.org kind of way.

The painful lesson for most. Just work with families. I know this pain oh so well. There are times you don't need to. but overall it's just a good idea.