It's a go!

Good morning from Washington State, US.

I only just barely joined the community and started using Construct 2, but I'm ridiculously excited for this release too. I'm hopping on the refreshing bandwagon and am ready to download!

I was essentially looking for an alternative to GameMaker 8.1. I was researching the newest GameMaker Studio and was turned off by the high prices of the individual exporter modules. I was about ready to just give the base package a go anyways, but I decided to Google some GameMaker alternatives. So, that's how I stumbled upon this wonderful Gem, Construct 2.

I gave the free version a go for a few days and then snagged up an official license and I look forward to playing around with it more. I'll start with recreating a game I made in GameMaker to really get a feel for it. I like this software's style and the way the developers are supporting it and the HTML 5 platform, so thanks for making it!

Hey everyone!

My name is Scott Howard and in short I'm an aspiring game designer, gaming enthusiast, bargain-hunter, and beer lover. I've been gaming for as long as I can remember, but I've also dabbled in video game design over the years, starting with the original Half-Life in modding and also Warcraft/Starcraft custom map making.

I went to school and earned a Bachelor of Science in Digital Entertainment and Game Design at ITT-Technical Institute. I worked a year at Cyan Worlds/Cyan Test as a QA Tester and QA Test Lead, but life has it's odd little twists and turns, so I'm no longer working in the game industry officially.

With a full time job, it can be difficult to find the motivation to design games. Thankfully, I stumbled upon this website and the Construct 2 engine about a week ago, and it reignited the spark to start working again. I dabbled with the free version for a few days and immediately purchased a license. I created a couple 40-hour game projects with GameMaker 8.1 and I'm going to attempt to recreate at least one of them using Construct 2.

There's not much else to say other than I'm pretty much just a dude with a loving wife and dog who is trying to create games on a side, whenever I'm not playing them, of course. I also tend to get long-winded and wordy, so I'll wrap this up now! I look forward to participating in the community in any ways that I can and hopefully I'll get around to sharing some of my games with you all.

-Scott / Crazyhowie

howardconcepts.net