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  • It's a shame that Construct 3 is subscription-based because I only get to use it three or four times per year, but I LOVE this tool!

    Ignoring functionality and all the other great stuff it offers what I mainly wanted to comment on today was the feature set. It blows me away. I'll give you a couple of examples:

    LEARNING FRENCH

    About seven years ago my wife and I moved to Paris, France. I was trying -- unsuccessfully -- to learn the language, so I tried downloading some flash card programs. They didn't do exactly what I wanted so I started making my own in Construct 3.

    Midway through development I thought, "It would sure be nice if I could hear a voice reading the words IN FRENCH. I'm sure Construct doesn't support that, though." Wrong. It only took me 20 minutes to get my program to speak to me in French!

    A bit later I said to myself, "You know what would be really cool? Imagine if it could listen to me trying to speak French." Yup, it can do that, too!

    NEW PRODUCT IDEA

    A few days ago I had an idea for a product. Basically, I wanted to take an existing device on the market, hook it to a PC using a USB cable, and then control the device by writing some C# or Python code for it. (This would limit my market to PC only, and I wasn't sure I would actually be able to write the code myself.)

    Yesterday I found an even better device that works with an iPhone or Android smart phone, via an app. (That was daunting because publishing an app sounds like a major PITA.) The device uses Bluetooth and I thought, "Boy, it would sure be cool if Construct 3 supported Bluetooth." I'll be damned. It does!

    That means that, theoretically, I wouldn't need to pay someone to write iOS and Android apps for me... I could just use Construct 3 to create a website. That would allow me to -- with NO extra effort -- support PC, Mac, iOS, AND Android.

    Amazing.

    EDIT: Hmm. I see there was a post from only a day ago that says Android does NOT support Bluetooth. (Due to Google not supporting it or something.) That's a shame. :-(

  • Thank you! I was getting ready to use keycodes, which would have meant importing a file with all the codes and the corresponding text strings.

    Your suggestion will make everything MUCH easier!

  • I have an input box and I want users to be able to enter different keyboard commands. How do I show them what they are entering?

    For example:

    "CTRL+2"

    "SHIFT+L"

    "R"

    "ALT+2"

    "CTRL+3

    "Spacebar"

    "Home"

    "Page up"

    etc.

    Thanks!

  • Several years ago I made an app to help myself learn French. It is still working just fine on my laptop, but when I tried it on my iPad last night there is no voice playing.

    Do I need to republish?

  • Hey, Allan! I remember you from last year. :-) Thanks for playing my game again. My daughter got busy and never finished last year's version, so I tried to make it a bit easier this year.

    It takes me a couple of days to make these (using my old project as a starting point), but Construct is so easy I find the work a lot of fun. And this year I didn't really have ANY unexpected problems. I got a little nervous when the intro video ran great during testing, but once deployed to my website it froze and buffered every few seconds. That had me worried, but I reduced the render size to 640x360 and then it was fine.

  • Oh, and I just want to say a big thanks to everyone at Scirra! Using Construct 3 is a ton of fun and I'm still amazed that I can create 1920x1080 games that run so nicely in a BROWSER. Outstanding!

    And it's such a versatile tool... This year I thought, "Hey, I wonder if I could add a full screen video?" I had to lower the resolution to get it to stream well, but it worked great, and it was very easy to implement.

    After I got this year's game working I thought, "Next year, when I have more time, I should add the ability to save your progress..." I did a little research and it was so easy I had it working in like 15 minutes! How awesome is that?

  • My daughter has always loved Easter -- so even after she became an adult my wife and I continued to have an egg hunt for her every year.

    Four years ago we moved away to Europe. When that first Easter came around I decided to use Construct to make her an ONLINE egg hunt using pictures of our old house! She loved it, so the virtual Egg Hunt is now a yearly tradition.

    The theme changes every year. This year it was: "Our Mexican Christmas!" and I used photos from our recent trip together. We stayed at an airbnb on the beach and it was glorious!

    Here is this year's game: cuttergames.com/egghunt_2020

    INSTRUCTIONS & NOTES:

    1. There are 10 scenes. Each scene has 5 eggs. Find them all to move on.

    2. You can zoom in and out using the middle mouse wheel. (When zoomed in, you can drag the screen.)

    3. The game is a whopping 75mb. Give it some time to start.

    4. I downloaded the music from YouTube. Please do not distribute!

  • Hello, I just went to my website (which has a number of Construct games and prototypes) and immediately a virus warning popped up on my screen. (Attached.)

    Could this be due to Construct or is it something else?

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  • Very impressive! You are doing some great work on this!