Jase00's Forum Posts

  • Remarkably, I checked the examples and couldn't find any multiplayer examples that use the game list, unless I'm being stupid and can't see it!

    I could make a c3p file to demonstrate this, unless someone else does it before me.

  • I don't know how to set this up, but I saw on your other thread that you haven't learned some basics with the multiplayer plugin, like how to retrieve a game list and load it into a list - are you sure it's a good idea to jump to the expert level and setup a signalling server?

    I believe it requires you to be confident with intermediate/advanced networking - you need to essentially setup a server, along with configuring a few things to make sure the signalling server works perfectly for any type of peer that connects.

    Do you pay for dedicated hosting, or were you planning to try and do this on your home computer?

    How much experience do you have with computer networking? You say you have a server, so I'm guessing you have some knowledge?

    I replied in the other topic about this and I suggested using the official Scirra signalling server. I've been using construct around 10 years, and I often enjoy working on multiplayer stuff, and with all of that, I would still not buy a signalling server - I don't quite have a reason where I would buy it, even if my game had 1000 daily players connecting online, the free signalling server that Scirra provide would handle that easily.

    Buying the signalling server only has downsides in my mind - like it costs money to buy it, costs money to host it reliably, costs you time as you have to maintain it or troubleshoot your server if issues arise, costs you time learning about all of this when it's not essential to learn for game dev (although it's always good to learn new things, but there's SO MUCH to learn, are you sure you wanna learn about RADIUS and STUN and stuff? If so, good for you, knowledge is power!). All this stuff that costs money and time, is available for free from Scirra - if the Scirra signalling server goes down, sure you may feel panicked, but at least you have a knowledgeable team that are hosting the server and will fix it themselves, all for free.

  • You can ask!

    I think there's an example on the Construct 3 start page, which shows you how to use the multiplayer "get room list" and then store the list of rooms in a "List" object.

    Its not too complicated, I'd definitely recommend checking that out.

  • Honestly the free Scirra signalling server is perfectly viable to use - even if it was crowded, the signalling server is doing such little work as it only really exists to connect people together and provides a place to store a "room list" that other players can see.

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  • Also it's not free, but discounted heavily.

    I just used my year discount the other week actually, and it worked fine! If you look at your discount but you cannot see a button to use the discount, then email support and ask them if they could check that your discount is working.

  • Ah yes I forgot just how powerful paster is!

    For what you need, I think drawing canvas has some quirks that will be annoying or stop you entirely - I can't remember exactly, but I think if you change the size of the drawing canvas, it clears the drawing canvas image.

    There's usually always an alternative method to achieve what you need though, I wonder how people using C3 achieve 2 player splitscreen... Hmm...

  • I miss "crop" mode in C2, but there is a way to sorta recreate it with events, using the Browser "On Resized" along with the system "Set Canvas Size".

  • Does the official "Drawing Canvas" plugin do all the things you need?

    I remember worrying about the lack of Paster and Canvas when moving from C2 to C3.

    But drawing canvas works well for me, I use many of then in my project for pretty visual FX.

  • Websites are fairly cheap these days, might be worth getting one if you're aiming to publish games to make money.

    You might be able to find a free website like Wix or something.

  • If money is the main deciding factor, then maybe construct 3 isn't suitable for you.

    If game dev is a hobby to you, then consider the fact that many people put some form of money into their hobby - Game devs are lucky that we can get away with a somewhat cheap computer that lasts for years, and we could choose to use game dev software that is free - hardly any costs at all for a hobby you might spend months and months on! But as I said, it's generally normal for people to put some money towards their hobby, so it's not "bad" to pay for a software licence or a subscription when there's free alternatives - it all depends on your financial situation.

    If you are doing game dev as full time work and have no other form of income, then depending if you have some money available, then I'd say Construct 3 is a good option for a few reasons, such as the support (you have literally all Scirra staff, such as the lead programmer and web designer and everything, answering questions on the forums and providing support, as well as the community providing help). Also C3 updates very regularly, usually every week depending on holiday season and such, so if you encounter a bug, and you report it clearly, then this could be fixed within a week or two depending on how complicated the bug is, which is great service! Plus all the extra features that get added, Construct 3 is constantly evolving.

    I use Construct 3 in my free time after my day job, not a high paying job but enough to afford a few subscriptions per month (e.g. Spotify and Construct 3). I hope to eventually generate money from what I create, but as of now, I'm happy paying, as I really like how the software functions and the service that Scirra provides.

  • What is the workaround in Unity?

  • Yeah it seems extremely challenging to figure out.

    I have 1 idea, which keeps with the same platform you are using now.

    What if once a month, something from the top 20 or 30 suggestions could be implemented, and in the update page, it could be specified that the feature was added "as suggested by the community".

    After adding, maybe the suggestions can be reset monthly, which would make sure votes are always recent, and not some abandoned vote from a few users 4 months ago.

    This could give Scirra the choice to cherry pick something that Scirra agrees with, but also Scirra can pick something that is doable alongside other features that you guys are currently working on.

    This might get people more engaged with the sub platform, as they'd get excited when they see on the update page that a community suggestion was able to get into C3, and the sub platform would be blank after this, fresh and ready for everyone to post ideas (or repost their old idea since they're so eager for it).

    I'm not sure. I really like the idea of being able to influence C3 though, as many others likely do. I wonder what could be tried.

  • I do like some of these, but generally suggestions go onto the suggestions graveyard platform (there's a sticky post here) .

    Ahh I joke, Scirra do look at the suggestions platform, but I do wish there was a more engaging way for suggestions to be handled.

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