I'm almost done with my Construct 2 game. I set the project screen to 1080x1920 and have the assets resolution accordingly. I simply assumed resolution could be adjusted for each device. I'm now testing the game on mobile and segments with many objects on screen are having slow downs.

Is there a way to manually change the resolution the game is rendered in order to improve performance? Like, what if I set the canvas size to 720x1280 and layout scale to 0.6666? Would that make the game lighter? I really hope this can be done without major changes to the game.

Are you increasing this variable number in the same condition that checks the colision?

I would suggest trying to increase it using the condition:

Sprite -> On Destroyed

Everything was already -> on destroyed. I'll see if the new setup works later.

Have you proven that the same tick is the issue? It doesn't sound like it from what you're describing. Use 'enemy on destroyed'.

The setup I use is that on enemy of x color destroyed, another sprite representing the count spawns the next one and is destroyed. Like, at 0 lights on, enemy is destroyed, the 0 lights sprite spawns the one light sprite and gets destroyed. When the 4 light sprite spawns, the combo count goes up, the score increases accordingly and the lights go back to 0. It works just fine but when more than one enemy is destroyed at the same time, only one light changes. As if a single enemy was destroyed.

To check it up, I created a global variable that increases by one when an enemy is destroyed. And while it does increase by the correct number of enemies destroyed, it is instant. Like, destroying 8 enemies at the same time makes the count go from 0 to 8 right away instead of counting from 1 to 8 fast.

I wonder if it could work by using this number for the events instead. Like, when this variable equals 1, make the one light sprite visible. If it's equal or above 4, spawn the 4 lights sprite, do the score thing, then subtract 4 from it. This way if say, 8 enemies are destroyed at once, the count of 8 would spawn the 4 lights and score, subtract 4 from itself and become 4, do the 4 lights and score increase again and go to zero. 9 enemies destroyed at once would do all that and set the count to 1 at the end.

I'm using construct 2. My game has a scoring system that awards more points when 4 enemies of the same color are destroyed in a row. The basis I created works fine but there's a problem. Some of the player's attacks can destroy more than one enemy on the same tick. This makes the game register just one kill and really screws with the design.

I attempted to tie the event to the animation of the following explosion instead: explosion on spawn- set animation speed to self.UDI so each explosion has slightly different animation speeds and reaches the target frame at different ticks. explosion on animation frame x- do the score event.

That didn't work either. Anyone know how I can pull this off?

> move with touch example

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> <img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/143636437/examples%20for%20web/Ashampoo_Snap_2014.02.05_22h08m05s_002.png" border="0">

looks simple enough, I'll try it.

It doesn't work. since the variables are the same, the sprite doesn't move.

looks like simple drag and drop behaviour with offset.

either create a sprite on touch with drag and drop and pin it to the ship position sprite, or create offsetx and offsety variables and position the ship acording to touch.x-offsetx and touch.y-offsety.

I'm sucessfully pinning objects now, but once an object gets pinned, it looses it's "bound to layout" property. is there a way to fix it?

move with touch example

<img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/143636437/examples%20for%20web/Ashampoo_Snap_2014.02.05_22h08m05s_002.png" border="0">

looks simple enough, I'll try it.

I was actually thinking of using pin-behaviour for it..

You could also do the offset way, it's just preference..

I didn't know about the pin behaviour existence :p

if you create a sprite at touch.x,touch.y with drag and drop behaviour, pin the ship to it and on touch end destroy the sprite.. should work..

I think I understand it now, thanks a lot. this pinning thing, is it an event action like this: ship -> position -> set position acording to this touch.x, touch.y object?

looks like simple drag and drop behaviour with offset.

either create a sprite on touch with drag and drop and pin it to the ship position sprite, or create offsetx and offsety variables and position the ship acording to touch.x-offsetx and touch.y-offsety.

would drag and drop really work? doesn't drag and drop involve directly touching the sprite? I need to move it regardless of the touch point.

about these offsets variables, should they be global variables?

this video ilustrates better what I want. anyone know how I cana chieve this in construct2?

youtube.com/watch