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• • alastair
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  • 23 Oct, 2011
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  Yay functions!

• • alastair
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  • 19 Oct, 2011
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  I'm still undecided which program I should use for my next project which I'm eager to start, Construct Classic is perfect for the games I want to make but it doesn't work on many computers (well not on my families/friends computers at least, which matters most). Construct 2 is great, but still seems too early to start anything serious since its lacking so many features. Then there's MMF2 which can run on all the computers I want, but games are much more of a hassle to make in MMF2.

• • alastair
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  • 18 Oct, 2011
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  Whats the alternative to vram?

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• • alastair
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  • 18 Oct, 2011
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  The only main bad thing about Construct for me at the moment is that the games don't run on Mac.

• • alastair
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  • 17 Oct, 2011
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  I'm looking forward to a custom controls plugin, so I can make same-computer multiplayer

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  • 16 Oct, 2011
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  The new UI looks like a great improvement, looking forward to it.

• • alastair
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  • 16 Oct, 2011
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  This is one way to do it:

  Perhaps give the sprite a variable called climb, then when you press Up while overlapping a ladder set the variable to 1. For another event, check if variable = 1, then set Y vector and gravity to 0. As a sub events of the variable = 1, do a check to see if player is jumping off ladder or no longer overlapping ladder (set variable to 0), then another to see if they're pressing Up/down to climb up/down.

  I made an example, its not perfect but might give you an idea:

  dl.dropbox.com/u/1024727/c2/ladderexample.capx

• • alastair
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  • 15 Oct, 2011
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  "Every tick" is basically a blank condition, all events that are true will happen every tick. So your boss visibility check is going to happen every tick while the condition is true. A solution to this is to add another condition to the event, under system object choose "trigger once while true".

• • alastair
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  • 12 Oct, 2011
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  May want to see these:

  scirra.com/forum/fullscreen-while-keeping-aspect-ratio-with-bars_topic43714.html

  scirra.com/forum/list-of-supported-resolutions_topic44511.html

• • alastair
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  • 12 Oct, 2011
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  Kyatric, Was only a month or so ago since my account got suspended (3 days only) for using the 10gb limit, they have the limit revealed on this page:

  dropbox.com/help/45

  inks that use up more than 10GB/day for Basic (free) accounts and 250GB/day for Pro (paid) accounts are automatically suspended.

  Newt, correct, dropbox is great but you still need to be aware of hosting large files that may be downloaded a lot (I didn't think anyone would want to download those games but they did).

• • alastair
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  • 11 Oct, 2011
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  For games, I wouldn't recommend using dropbox to host them (if your using non-paid). I put a couple of my old games on it (10mb each), and I had my account suspended for a few days for going over the bandwidth as there's a 10gb a day bandwidth limit.

  At the moment I'm using mediafire, is there a better alternative?

• • alastair
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  • 8 Oct, 2011
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  Is Davo part of Scirra still? Or do they just want to keep it as Ash and Tom from now on?

• • alastair
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  • 7 Oct, 2011
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  Is it possible to set key mappings at runtime?

  scirra.com/forum/plugin-input-system-v096b-21-03-2011-keyb-mouse-joy_topic40990.html

• • alastair
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  • 4 Oct, 2011
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  Thanks I think I understand it better now.

• • alastair
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  • 3 Oct, 2011
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  I'm using "Timer%7=1" in a condition, to do something every X miliseconds (I can't use the actual "every x miliseconds" event since for some reason it stuffs up the picking).

  However, on unlimited framerate the event is trigged a billion times faster? I thought the timer wouldn't be affected by framerate like how timedelta isn't?