Hello,

I am making a mobile game to learn Chinese 4-word idioms. It is a tile game similar to Candy Crush, 2046 etc, it begins with all the words scrambled up. Players swipe one tile to another in order to swap places. When the 4 words linked up in the correct order, the set of tiles will disappear and other tiles fall according to gravity physics. Level complete when all tiles are gone.

Where can I find similar tutorial to help me acheive this? It is different from shapes matching as there are hundreds of different idioms that I need to program.

Thank you.

Hello, I am currently trying out the free version, I want to research properly before I subscribe.

Is construct good for 2.5D game art which I love? The free version has many restrictions for example number of layers (therefore parallax) and effects (shadows?). There is also the lightings I have not explored. Is there more camera options in the premium version?

If you are building a game with beautiful 2.5D art, would you please share a video and your experience with me?

If I want it to be compatible for both mobile phone, iPad and desktop? And for my assets, I made it rather big, eg. 500x500px for a small player on screen, and scale it to 30% in the layout. Would I have problem with game file size when I export my game in the end?

Hi, you can try it for free. The free version is enough to to make a simple game. If you learn well in Construct 3, and realised you needed the extra premium functions, then upgrade.

I find Construct much easier than Unity (I was also struggling with the coding when I took a course not long ago). Construct has many functions pre-coded, you only need to click, select, drag them. That way you can learn how the functions work without actually typing out the codes. It is suitable for me as a beginner.

However, I also know that there are a few other outstanding games engines around, so I am currently trying out Construct too.

Thanks, I will go try it on my pc, as I can’t seem to select multiple sprite on the ipad. Also I will consider purchasing Construct3 after solving some UI problem. I lost the scaling nodes on the iPad version, I can’t drag and resize my sprites manually, instead have to use the properties menu to do it.

Thanks, I think I would like to do the easiest method, as I am unsure about the events and I have a limited 50 events as a free member. But where do you mean when you mention layout editor? Is it where I create the scene? The properties menu? The object menu?

Thanks, do you mean this parent child function should be the first event on the event sheet if the other events are related to this?

I also saw another tutorial that teaches about using Containers. In my case, do you think I should use Parent Child or Container to have all the sheep parts behave the same way?

Thank you

Hello, thanks for reading this. I am making a Baa Baa Black Sheep game, where the player sheep is made of a body with its head and 3 parts wool as different sprites, as I need these three to disappear at different checkpoint (Master, Dame, and Little Boy who lives down the lane).

However I am having a lot of problem to get these sprites to act with its body.

Previously I tried pinning them. Then after reading some tutorials, I think the best way to do it is grouping them together as parent and child so that they can all behave the same way. I am expecting them to move, mirror, scale, destroy and respawn correctly with its body, automatically. I hope I don’t have to code these for every part.

This is what I have currently. The child do not move with parent. What did I do wrongly?

Thank you both of you. I managed to do the Or Block. You are right, it just mean I toggled from And to Or function when I clicked Or Block. Also I would love to use Family but it is sadly not available for free. I am only learning the basics now, so I don’t intend to subscribe until I can finish a few simple games with it.

Hello, I found an “Add Or Block” when adding event, but nothing happens after clicking it. I want to add if A collides into B OR C OR D, A dies. Thanks for helping me!

I am pinning the head and wool to my player sheep. But when it walks backwards, the head doesn’t mirror together and stays at its ass.

Using the pinned function for this because the 3 sets of wool will disappear at each checkpoints. It is easier instead of creating 3 x running/idle/jumping animation.

Thanks for helping.