However You cut the numbers it's a lot of people still using XP for sure...Me being one of them.

I don't see it as any surprise that many still use XP, lets face it you go buy a more powerful PC install a more recent resource eating, bloated O.S and voila your PC is the same speed...

Not only that but a PC is usually full of a users private, documents, work, photos, programs ect ect, collected over many years that may not be compatible with a newer O.S or they simply do not feel the need to upgrade when their current P.C and O.S does everything they ask of it...

I'd have thought the older games massive H.U.D's were a technical decision to reduce the amount of rendering in them thar early 3D days...

So for that reason I will say Doom HUD is my fave, as it was minimalist but to the point also showed your bloodied mugshot as you got fragged up, always nice...

I think HTML5 has been a great springboard to get Construct 2 where it is Today, indeed Chrome has been it's special move...

Maybe not now, maybe not this year,but long term I seriously think it would be better for C2 to detach from HTML5's apron strings, peer out from google's wing and become not only "The HTML5 game creator" but "The game creator"

Relying on third parties has set Construct 2 back a few times now, fingers crossed that won't happen again...

Many of the forum members wanting to see a native exporter have moved on from Classic, maybe we have seen the grass can be greener...

Minimap ? I assume your referring to the highly sophisticated tracking device, that displays a 2x2 pixel blob at an aliens coordinates...

dthomasdigital Thanks, It's not far from finished...

Here's a video of a game I've been working on for the last few weeks...

My personal goal was to concentrate on performance, to test C2 and Myself, after all the discussions on the forums...

Overall I'm pretty happy with the performance...

Game has 9 layers of parallax in a 16000x640 layout that wraps infinitely left or right...

in the load test there are about 1200 objects in the layout...

Video shows game running in chrome with web GL

http://youtu.be/6RjzIewfduM

also a load test video...

http://youtu.be/izJQ63ubNeg

Any feedback welcome...

Wrangler I could not agree more...

Tempted to say, curvature of the back, eye strain or repetitive strain injury...

But if You mean more people should rate and respond to other peoples C2 creations on the forums, I agree...

When you mess up, would it display, "game over" or "You work in mysterious ways" ?

Just the one then?... sounds about right...

I probably fall somewhere in between, having spent my youth watching ZX81 and spectrums fail to load, I have no qualms about watching My teenage kids playing games with language that would make Granny's teeth curl...

Personally I throw the odd F bomb in daily speech...

But in games I do find it tacky, juvenile and contrived, rarely, even in games designed for a "mature" audience does it add any realism or immersion as it's usually saturated rather than slightly seasoned with swearing and or bad taste humour...

Wrangler I'm deeply honoured! and highly amused...Lol