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  • Your suggestion could be improved considerably if you specified what kind of server or what you meant by community server.

  • To be precise, like I said before, you would take all of the fixed values and multiply them with dt and your testing environment framerate.

    If enemy.y+7 feels right at your framerate and your framerate is 60, you would do enemy.y+(7*dt*60). If your framerate is 185 when testing, you would use enemy.y+(7*dt*185). It would then move the same distance/time across a screen at any framerate.

    Every x seconds is fine for anything as long as x is greater than the expected time of any given frame. I think it's safe to say anything over 0.1 would not cause any problems with framerate as long as you don't need absolute precision. If your ticks are taking longer than 0.1 seconds you've got other issues.

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  • Anywhere you have a fixed number that runs every tick (that isn't a behavior), multiply that number times dt times your expected framerate (normally 60, but could be higher if you're used to working at 120 or 144 or whatever refresh rate your computer runs at.)

  • Does the gamepad example work on your arcade input?

    editor.construct.net

  • The layer in level 2 has 0 parallax. That's not default, so you would have had to go out of your way to set it. I mean there's only one layer anyway so why fiddle with it?

    You have scroll to enabled on two objects, playerbox and astronaut. They also both have 8direction on, so there's not really any point to having two objects the way it's set up right now.

    Not really my place to say this but this project has way too much going on for what it is trying to do. If you're guiding students I'd recommend focusing them on doing the minimum of only what is necessary to reach the desired result, for their own future sanity and yours as well.

  • Generally you would plug in the input device in question, preview and test, set it properly, and it's a once and done kinda thing. If you can't connect your joystick to your development machine, that's what remote preview is for.

    If you want to get fancy, you could try to map the controls on first run and save the resulting map to localstorage.

  • Does it work if you just put ajax.lastdata directly into the text object?

    I think the parse action just loads it into the json object so that the json object can interface with it by keys. Not too familiar with that though.

  • You actually don't want a loop, since by nature loops will complete within a tick, and thus everything done in the loop would be simultaneous as far as the user can see.

    What you'll want is an incrementing counter, and a way to sort/order the enemies (for further reading search 'state machine').

    Lets say they have instance variable for their turn order, from 0 to n. Use a global variable "currentTurn", starting at 0. So you would pick the instance that matches currentTurn, and have it move. Upon finishing the move, increase currentTurn by 1.

  • Is your text object large enough to fit the entire string? It won't show up if it doesn't fit within the object. Or use a textinput instead.

    Also maybe turn bbcode off.

  • Did you wait for the AJAX request to finish before trying to parse ajax.lastdata?

  • Iirc this is a security issue with USB connected phones, which don't quite work exactly the same as a simple USB drive. I forgot the details but I remember reading something about sandboxing between the operating system and the phone storage, so it doesn't have anything to do with construct or html5.

  • The game previews are beautiful, but when scrolling down on the page with so many previews they begin to lag terribly. Not a great look.

    Also, when clicking the "Edit in C3" links, my first inclination is to preview the project to try it out. I don't think it would be immediately obvious for a new user to know how to do so, so maybe a highlight on the preview button when launching from those links would be a nice usability feature for new users. After all, experienced users generally are not going to be clicking on those links.

    Similar to the guided tour highlights, instead of dropping new users into the editor with no prompt (besides the somewhat unfriendly "Project exceeds free edition limitations..." message), I think there could be highlights for the preview button ("Try out the project"), and event sheet ("See the logic"), and maybe the layout editor, but that's usually already open by default and pretty self explanitory.

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