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  • — Thanks! :)

    Did you beat it? What's your time?

    nah, i gave up 10 minutes in, couldn't take it anymore ... was always dying xD i got unlucky on the keyboard commands broken thing, it always got me disabled when i was cluttered with asteroids...

    and sadly... i never finished the first stage .... im a bad player ... i know ... ^_^

  • Nah, that vid is plain public. I mean when i do "open url" call from my app in Chrome ()or any web preview - it works just fine (probably should have mention that). The error occurs only in NW.js runs.

    make sure u give the proper access to internet to the .exe — is there a special settings to provide to NW considering the internet access? For example i do ajax calls to save statistics to the server via https and it works just fine...

    i just searched a youtube permission for nw.js as youtube is still running on flash, and nw.js being desktop acts like its own browser and the chrome or what browser is using by default nw.js doesn't cache your permission preferences, and they never ask you to enable flash or give access to media and stuff.

    similar to your problem is this nw.js youtube

    then there is this im not sure how this might help you but might be a nw.js problem from what the guy is saying nw.js incompatible chrome required .dll

  • It's not just that - there was also a lot of abuse happening by PM, and it's difficult to moderate (especially since I don't really want to get in to reading people's private messages)

    i totally get the reasons behind it, but using a 3rd party that should fix it right? as the abuse wouldn't actually happen on the scirra forum, but on the 3rd party service platform atleast that's how i see it.

    anyway would be nice to have some sort of contact info sharing that is as quick and more private than a share on the forum posts.

  • But what is this? self.x-5. The zombies self minus 5 pixels on the horizontal? Not sure why this works.

    Thanks again. :-)

    self.x - 5 is basically the zombies current position and you subtract 5 from that making him change position again until it reaches the player.x (current position) + or - the zombie.width*2 that acts like a margin so they don't overlap.

    now the 5 i put it there so its moving a bit faster, but u can adjust the 5 value to whatever u need, you can make a global variable and call it zombie speed and give it a value and replace the 5 with that variable. or if you have different zombies that require different speeds, you can make a localvariable on each zombie sprite, and give them different values, and then say

    self.x - self.zombiespeed or self.x + self.zombiespeed

    using variables is gonna be easier for you to manage the changes of values later on when events start piling up, so you don't have to go through each event, condition, action to look at that value 5 and say ok where is it now? XD

    also what is distance> player.x and distance<player.x? is that the zombies X?

  • Hi Bud,

    Thank you for explaining that. So it kinda of acts similar to a variable.I am dreading get into the math part of construct. But I am learning from you tube and you guys!

    Cheers corp!

    yes,no problem, for more information how distance is working check this bit distance formula

    it might have a different approach on Construct depends on how Ashley designed it, but in essence it should be the same.

    also, you remember that old annoying math teacher telling you "math is the key?" i didn't believe him either .... now im sorry xD struggling to remember what he teached ...

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  • I think the solution for private messaging would be best kept off site - in today's GDPR focused world a private messaging platform raises all kinds of data protection questions that you'd need a lawyer and a stiff drink to field properly, and that simply isn't conducive for a software house.

    Having an email field on your profile that only appears to users that your following could be a workaround.

    i think the fear of GDPR enforcers is to extreme this days because of the facebook scandal, lets face it we aren't the facebook or google community we are barely ~50,000 users at best, 90% of which aren't even on the forum, and only 10% are actually using the forums, and god knows what amount of the users are actually filling real informations, there is no actual validating contact information processor on the data provided, is just a hand held book of who someone claims to be at what address, that isn't a real data processing now.... and for the credit card information ... obviously there is a card processor somewhere and again no GDPR there also.

    i agree with you on the workaround, because the GDPR compliance of the 3rd party pm service wouldn't be so much different than the gravatar 3rd party feature the website is already using, which i don't see any gdpr on that.

  • I submitted my entry, the game is called Damaged Controls

    that is actually a dope game dop2000 lmao ^_^

  • Hey there!

    Can one LERP master volume from -99db to 0 db in a second or two? In that case whats the formula?

    Or is there a better idea for this?

    Thanks! ^_^

    i am no LERP master volume but atleast this one thing i know ^_^...

    lerp(a to b in ticks/s) or lerp(a,b,x) lerp(0,-99,dt) lerp(-99,0,dt) fade out , fade in ... young obi kenobi.

    however i prefer the variable way, lerp sometimes snaps towards the end and i don't like that.

    also not sure if the volume has changed on decibels, but i think in Construct volume muted is -35db or nothing can be heard at that point, doing -99 is kinda pointless. unless again if that changed and you can actually hear stuff at -90db then -99db is a good value call.

    Edited: also above me there is a post ... with the new feature in C3 ... that might solve it for you, if you don't want any custom fade in fade out.

  • You are right about the part where the system treats multiple instances as one object, and when you try to access some property it takes it from the first instance etc. But I'm sure you are aware that "Compare instance variable" is very often used to pick or "filter out" instances. If you have multiple instances, some with id=0 and some with id=1, you can use this event to pick only instances with the id=1 for example.

    It has the same effect as using System event "Pick by evaluate" or "Pick by comparison". And actually you can change my capx to use "System Pick by evaluate Sprite.id=choose(0,1)" and it will have the same problem. The engine will loop through each instance, each time comparing with a different result of choose() expression.

    This seems wrong to me, because it works differently in SQL for example. If you do "SELECT * FROM table WHERE code=int(rand()*2)", this will select records with only one value in code field, either with 0 or 1, not a mix of both.

    oh that i am aware of it, i always use the

    , i never used choose() in that sort of pick cause of the original issue with multiple instances...

    ah now i see why you are using it like that ...

  • one thing i loved about the old forum, and it wasnt really the colors, or the lightning fast snail loading time, but the PM messaging, and i know is a bit of a big management work behind it, cause u need to keep track of who does what and whatever, but what if ... you don't have to do all that?

    and you just use a service like disqus but with a PM service, that can be used only for PM service only as we don't need a comment supported by disqus we already have it right? but the pm part is a bit of hackle and i get it...

    here is my pitch

    Tom

    Edited: i know might sound offensive, its just the name of the app... the [ at ]and the link made me read it in a bad way i hope it doesn't do that for anyone who reads this....

    MUUT < just the send a private message part in the tutorial near the profile that's it. the rest of forum/blogs can be the same. but that pm thing is a must... im tired of putting my email with or without square brackets on the forum, and getting bombarded by spam assassins, and people from russia trying to hack my emails... like "that's where he keeps he's nudes!"

    please consider it, i think a lot of users would appreciate it, atleast temporarily until there is time for forum development or expansion.

  • So naturally I assumed if I use choose(0,1) in this event, it will first choose a random number (0 or 1) and then pick instances with id equal to that number.

    But what happens is that this event actually checks each instance separately, and for each instance calculates a new random number and compares id with this number. So it can pick one instance (which seems correct), but it can also pick two instances or none.

    Also, resetting opacity on start of the layout doesn't fix the issue, because all objects are reset anyway when the layout is restarted.

    i already seen the example i think if is the one saying

    i never seen the pick being used like that before, and for me doesn't make sense, as i know the Sprite object if you don't tell the system what instance should pick, it picks all of them and considers all the same object( you get what im saying? it can be confusing or i might be having a wrong idea of how the object instances work it's possible). that's what i seen so far since i installed Construct 5 years back, and that never was changed it was always like that, also i remember something about sprite.objects specifically or any object that is put initially on the screen, is that if u don't specify instance the system automatically picks the 1st put instance in screen and considers that instance like a "master instance" and if u add a 2nd instance and u don't specify it, it picks the "master instance" but takes in account the 2nd instance anyway.

    so you can have 5 sprites, but when you are saying

    system check if the sprite.id equals with this value that you pick random, the system picks all the data available and gets a true on everything he picks, suddenly sprite.id = to 1,2 and even 0 at the same time, creating the current glitch. and the display of the opacity, is just a lag feedback(because of wait 2 seconds then restart, which sometimes can persist even though you restart the layout.), and probably because of the overlap in computing. atleast that's what i was thinking at back then when i typed the message, it might not be the case, and they might work like you say though lol (im laughing at my own confusion here not at you, not trying to be rude :D) ... i never used the comparison like that.

    that's why i was saying the choose(0,1) above in my opinion is just miss usage.

    anyway did you had the same problem on a older C2/C3 version? like going back .10 .20 versions?

    btw did i told you? that when i runned your example in C2 my C2 started opening himself up like non-stop? :O lol that was the latest stable version ... insane XD i think that is a bug i wanna investigate now! (maybe it was because of the = choose() :O the plot twist would be amazing... anyway im derailing my ADD started kicking in... over-editing my post just now ... im curious if there is any other reason of the =choose() behaving that way than the reasons displayed so far.

  • Hi, game looks interesting, quick tip for your team to tackle on, i seen on the video, some of the balls, items, interactive objects are a bit confusing to detect what they do, unless there is a tutorial, or you already know what they are doing so 1st step would be make them more obvious of what they are (an example here would be the elastic in the video, if u would be a regular user, you wouldn't know that should be interacted with, unless u would have went through a tutorial of sorts.)

    as for marketing that is more of where, why, when, how long, how much, how often, type of question, and requires time to be put in and perseverance and money in some cases depending on the marketing.

    as for user retention is also a bit more complex but requires a team effort, and continuous improvement, simply put you can raise it by giving users a reason to come back, if you pitch to them the game as a "5 minutes game in the waiting room to the dentist" then that's when they will come back... when they have a new appointment with their doctor.

    all the above are logical aspects, however logical is not always gonna bring you success, to bring it to success it needs a bit of help from the exploitation of impulses and emotions we as humans have.

    if you want to talk some more, leave a email or a form of contact il reach out! :) (the forum doesn't have anymore a private messaging system maybe soon...)

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