I'm struggling to build my first APK. I'm using Monaca, and managed to build a debug, unsigned version of my game. I'm having more trouble with the releasable build, but right now what concerns me most is that my debug build is, well, LAGGY AS F**K yo. I mean, much laggier than served from the web dammit. For some reason, I had expected even a slight performance improvement once i went apk, i dunno, being local and all. Certainly not this debacle. Oscillations of speed are painfully noticeable, and makes the game unenjoyable :(

Here's the debug build if you wanna try it yrself and see how it sucks.

Im following this tuto here. Monaca has evolved a bit since, but the only thing I couldnt find was one ¨Crosswalk WebView Engine¨ plugin (crosswalk is not maintained no more right?), that was advised. I don't know if that's relevant.

Any idea where the problem might be? Capx code flaw? Lack of some plugin?

Thanks!

Hehe fair enough. But that's a big answer you asking for... and Im not myself that savvy.

You should learn at least a bit of html (dead easy), css (the design part), and javascript (the only real progrmming here, the other two are more like layout languages). The old classic way was the w3schools.com, but there should be thousands of alternatives nowadays. stackoverflow.com is also very useful, more like a Q&A forum.

Here's a very old mockup I had somewhere, is only half sketched but will do as an example. (Not a very good one concerning txt blurriness, cause I used some css text shadow I think. And also seem to take ages to load. Oh well). I seem unable to write a link properly in this damn forums so here's the address:

WEB c2web.netlify.com

The capx ( drive.google.com/open ) is unimportant here, it only contains the animated background, and this following line of code:

which calls the function “carga()”. But this function is not inside the construct project...

When you export a html5 project from C2, what you get is a webpage containing your game, like this:

ZIP drive.google.com/open

The file index.html is always the start (in this case the only) page in any website. Here is where the game “happens”. And here I built a simple structure, with a menu on top and some text in blocks (called “divs”; mind the text is not in the capx), and made the game “happen” in the background. You can edit html files with any text editor, but there are many (brackets, notepadC++) specially designed for coding. If you open index.html you'll see this structure, and also that “carga()” function that I called from inside the capx. What this function does is set the whole content (the aforementioned “structure”) visible, as I set it invisible by default. Why? Cause I dont want the text being shown while the game (the background of my site) is loading. Similarly, you can call a Construct function from the html (change music or images when a link is hit, for example). Functions are a straight way to interact capx and html, and a very powerful one too, as they let you do nearly anything.

I've used myself construct to make simple presentations and portfolios, but those were no webpages – I rather called them “online apps”. And people seemed impressed lol.

EDIT AGAIN: Changed game's name because whadehell.

Okay so against my better judgement I've decided to give this goddam program another try. Thus I've been rummaging over some of my old sad half-done projects, seeing if I can rig 'em up a little bit and, who knows innit, maybe get them finally published alright. Not gonna happen most likely, never happens -- anyway, today I give you

TETRAPACMMATON

PLAY HERE:

pac.netlify.com

A revamp of my old PacBoy (itself a revamp of Namco's Pac-Man) with a hint of colour, plus shooting turrets, giant saws, secret hatches and whatnot.

It's a pretty polished beta, with nearly all features functional. Could use a bigger, more balanced map. Also, grid movement is not as robust as it should, enemies go thru walls sometimes, which pisses me off greatly. TETRAPACMMATRON is aimed primarily for mobile/tablet, but as always with Construct, performance is quite the challenge. As it is now, runs reasonably well on all my rather-crappy devices. Far from optimal, of course. Lags a bit too much at the beginning, which I hope I'll be able to fix with a title screen or something.

Comments appreciated! How's performance for you? What scores you get? Do them damn ghosts cross the walls? Do you think Namco could sue me?

Cheers!