There is no way to protect your code to work with freelancer, but you can put some efforts in reducing the risk. I understand the issue since I am a freelancer and sometimes potential clients are concern about their code to be stolen.

Here my advice:

1) Work only with freelancer that have a good reputation and that can prove they have the skills to help you. If they are more skilled then you, they don't need to steal your code since they can for sure make the game all by themselves and probably better. That's why you ask their help in the end, right?

2) If you need a specific function, just ask to make a standalone program. You can just copy the Event Sheet(s) provided into your game and adapt them.

3) If solution n.2 doesn't work for you, then create a new project, recreate the issue you need to fix there with placeholder art and audio, and ask to fix the issue in that test program. You will then copy and adapt it to your game.

4) If solution 2 and 3 are not suitable for you, then make a copy of your program and remove from it all the things that are not related to your issue, make sure the issue is still happening as in the original program and then send it to the freelancer.

For example, if you need a level selection layout, you can simply remove all the event sheets of the game, leave just the layouts with their name, but empty of all the art and objects and give the skeleton of your program to the freelancer that will create the event sheet and layout for level selection.

5) This might be slower and therefore more costly, but it's a solution sometime I offer to clients as well. Pay the freelancer per hour and go on video call, share the screen and show the issue and the part of code where you think the freelancer might find the problem. The freelancer will takes a bit of time to study the code and trying to figure out where the issue is, depending on the skill of the freelancer and how much your code is organised, long and complicated. Then together you will fix the issue step by step.

Those tips should give you a good amount of protection, if you are looking for a freelancer you can get in contact with me, I am a bit busy with reforming my house at the moment, but I could be able to help you depending on what you need.

Have you checked these games made with Construct?

madewithconstruct.com

"i dont... need help... its a simple programming task, thats the beauty of it. Sure it will take months as there is 100 layers of simple tasks.. "

I don't understand, if you don't need help, why posting on Job Offers then?

"90% art.. yes.. however. Ai gives royalty free art."

Using AI will more likely bring you more trouble than benefit, and not only to you.

"also... waste time? if it doesnt go anywhere, you end up with a ton of pre made assets, and code... AND art... its really a win win.. and if it does take off.l you are a profesional game developer"

Then, as professional game developer, if I have to spend so much effort for something that is not sure to bring me profit, why sharing the revenue when I can work directly on my project? That's the point you are missing and that's why people are not joining you.

Anyway, I tried to give you advice, you are welcome to ignore it. Good luck with your idea, I go back to work on my project until a new real paid freelance opportunity will arise.

programming is pretty simple tbh, just a ton of arrays. but, later it will need a ton of work to make it online, and multiplayer

If it's pretty simple, then you don't need help, but then you say (correctly) that will need a ton of work for making it online and multiplayer. So how do you expect someone to work for free for 1 year or more in something that might be a flop?

do you want to be paid?

Is that even a question to ask? Like "Are you so annoying that after working for months you want even to be paid?"

its 90% art.

That is an additional cost, if you don't do the art, how are you planning to have artists work for you for free for so much art? Because if for this type of game you are going to take roughly at least 1 year of development, and that's only the 10%, that meants that the art is 9 years worth of work...

seriously, whats wrong with the world, cant work unless its cash in hand.

I think you miss the point. Look, I bought a very bad condition house on a small mountain. You can come here in Japan (you pay your trip, food and accommodation), then you start to fix my house, cut the bamboo forest, fix the land and plant fruit trees and vegetables. Then we cut part of the forest, we make a fence to protect the 6000 square meter of land, we did to find mountain water and then we make some little bungalows for tourists. That's at least 1 year of work you will have to take care about. I will take care of the marketing, managing, accounting, advertising, set up the bungalows internal etc., that's about 90% of the work. If we make money I will give you 10% of the income. Can you start next month?

Now do you understand?

Seriously, I gave you a good advice in the previous post. You are free to don't consider my suggestion, but don't complain then if people don't want to waste their time on your project.

You are asking a lot in exchange of, maybe, a cut of the sale.

I'm sorry it doesn't work in that way, especially for big projects.

You'd better start something small and then with the earnings pay the team members you will need for a bit more complex game and so on.

You can try, but it's easier to win the lottery...

Does the last release 280 not work?

Honestly I haven't tried to run it, since I remember Ashley at one of the releases said that XP wasn't any more supported. Perhaps am I confusing some features instead of the whole program?

Windows XP is as obsolete as Construct 2, come over to the light side my friend.

Which one is the light side? C3 on Windows 11? I have already and using C3, thought I will move to Linux before start to use Windows 11.

My point is that while my usual laptop that has both C2 and C3 is busy doing something, I can still use the old netbook. It might also be handy to teach basic Construct concepts to beginners in case I don't have enough computer if I will held in person classes.

So, the question still is valid and no need to throw away things that still works.

The fact that Windows XP is as obsolete as C2 is good, because I can't run C3 on my old netbook :-D

Beside that, I am still using C2 for most of my personal projects, I use C3 only when it's a customer requirement or I have to create an app. Aside for that, C2 still works fine for all my needs!

I have a very old netbook with Windows XP and rather than keep it on a box, I would like to make some use of it, like when sometimes I have dead time because my current laptop is busy for a few hours doing something else.

I have on it installed on my old netbook C2 with the version 168, which one is the latest I can use with Windows XP? I remember time ago there was an announcement that it XP was not supported anymore from a certain version, but I can't find it and its not written in the download page:

https://www.construct.net/en/construct-2/download

Thank you! :-)

If you plan to sell games, why on earth do you want to target Android4? That is almost 15 years old!

No one that buy games will ever use an Android4 device, that's for sure.

Why not? If it works on Android 4 it works also on newer versions, so it's just an additional option.

I wanted to buy some apps for my tablet and I couldn't because not supported.

Of course I am not going to develop a 3d MMORPG for Android 4.

But anyway, that's a thing to explore, I am happy to spend a bit of time to see if it's possible and if it works, if not, I can still export the game for newer version so no issue for me aside for find out how to export for old Android versions.

> Ashley is every Chromium release under Google's control? I mean is Google technically able to know who uses my app because it's made with Construct that uses Chromium to run the app itself? I guess the same applies for PC games, correct?

I don't believe Chrome or the Android WebView (used for Android apps) tracks people to the level of identifying which website URLs they visit or which apps they use. There's a lot of privacy legislation around the world that would probably make that illegal, and if it emerged they were doing that anyway it would likely be a PR disaster for them. However there are various telemetry systems included in Chrome and Android WebView, although as I understand it, they are used only for technical purposes, such as measuring the number of crashes, and controlling (or reverting) the roll-out of complex new features.

That's what I believe the situation to be, but if you want the full details you'll have to read through Google's full privacy policies for Chrome and Android, and trust that they abide by what they've written (which I think you can generally count on as they can face serious legal action if they do something different).

Thank you Ashley for the details. Well, to be honest considering who are the major stakeholders of Google I don't trust what their policy says. But anyway, that's going inside a rabbit hole that no many people are interesting to explore or willing to accept. When you control media, courts and have so much power, you can't be knocked down easily. History, especially recent one, is full of those examples. See for example YouTube and their current changes of policies + shadowban. Plus with the new censorship coming out in Europe in 3 days life will become more and more a very bumpy road.