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  • Thanks.

    I am still not good enough to make a good Platformer. Guess it will be awhile for me.

    Thanks again.

    Ken

  • I have been wondering if Platform games and Space shooters are the only type of games that can be made using Construct2. I noticed almost all of the tutorials and example games are that type.

    Zelda and those type games seem to be missing. Are they possible with the way this engine is set up?

    Just wondering.

    Ken

  • With all the PC and other things happening, I am wondering how you celebrate Christmas.

    Here in the Philippines theyh begin a little early with the -ber months. That is the ones that end with -ber.

    The Christmas decorations go up and the stores play Christmas music.

    There are manger scenes everywhere and Christmas is celebrated like it was back in the 1050's in the States without the cold weather and snow.

    This year people will be a b it more careful because of the threats but they will still be out.

    Ken

  • My immediate goal is to stay alive. I am 75 and retired in the Philippines. I have fought off cancer twice so far.

    My next goal is to possible make a multilevel Platform game. I am going through one now just to find out how moving platforms ( got that one), change layouts ( sort of got that one.), what I need when I go to a new layout and what I don't, things like that.

    If I ever get through that list I may make a good game and publish it for free just to see how it goes.

    I also have moving enemies and those kinds of things.

    I sort of have a good idea about how to do some of those things. I remembered the bullet action to get an enemy to go straight from one of the tutorials.

    I had wanted to get the enemies to go straight and drop in a hole and then re spawn. I sort of have an idea how to do that. I already know one way not to do it. I may have to get that one to hit the wall and die so he can re spawn.

    Just crazy things I need to figure out.

    As you can probably tell, without my notes, I am lost for the most part.

    Thanks for the help. I really need it sometimes and at others I go through the look everywhere and then after I ask for help, I find the solution. That bugs me.

    Thanks again.

    Ken

  • Thanks. I intend to keep on for now. I also have some really simple game engines but they are not even close to this. They are a good distraction for awhile though.

    Thanks again.

  • I tried Construct 2 two years ago and couldn't quite figure it out.

    I am back again and though I am farther than I was before, I still have many problems that no one else seems to have.

    I have notebooks and the manual which I wish had an index or table of contents. I look for the tutorials and it always happens that I use the wrong keyword and don't find anything and then some suggests the right word and there are ten tutorials on whatever it is.

    I know this is a good program and it is not too difficult for the average person.

    You would think that after 40 years in Electronics and being an Instructor for several of those years, I could figure this out. Of course I am not as sharp as I used to be when I was working actively.

    I am still plowing through and restarting things when something gets really messed up and I seem to be a bit further this evening than I was yesterday, though I don't seem to have written down the right notes as I cannot find much of what I did today. Most of today was following notes I wrote the day before.

    Hanging in by a thread,

    Ken

  • Never mind. I figured it out after Lunch.

    I had the exit door colliding with the playerbox instead of the Playerbox colliding with the Exit door.

    Now that works, I need to place the player and the Playerbox in Layout2.

    Thanks for being so patient with me.

    Ken

  • I seem to be so far behind everyone in this program.

    I am making my platform game and I had the guy go up to the top of a narrow passage using platforms.

    That worked fine.

    Then I wanted him to go to another layout, so I made Layout2.

    My problem came when I looked at the tutorials on changing levels. After sorting them out to get the ones that were actually changing the layout and not just the player level, I found that theirs works and mine doesn't.

    I placed a heart at the top and had the player touch it and nothing happened even though I had an event to say go to Layout2. ( I didn't have another player waiting in Level 2.) I used the system to go there in the event.

    The transition from Layout1 to Layout2 is my problem.

    I am completely lost at this point and I was just called for lunch.

    Ken

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  • I think I have enough information to figure it out from that one.

    Thanks again. You seem to always be there for me and it is very appreciated.

    Ken

  • I'll try that.

    thanks.

  • I know there is a tutorial on this somewhere, I just cannot find it.

    I want to make my platforms go back and forth.

    Ashley makes the snails move back and forth in his tutorial with invisible boxes. Is this the same technique that I would use to move platforms?

    Would this affect the Player if he happens to run into one of them?

    Ken

  • It never asked me. I assumed it was saving it to my computer. ( Local)

    Reloading Construct2 seems to have done it so far. I remade a short program and did a save to the default folder.

    (I am new to all of this so I really don't completely understand all of what I am doing yet.)

    That save worked fine. I haven't reopened it and made changfes as of yet. I think I am going to just use the Control S to save from now on.

  • Anything in a Storm. Will Try and report back.

  • I seem to be having a problem between the "Save as Project" and the "Save" buttons.

    If I choose the Save as Project button it saves right away.

    If I choose the Save button, it never finishes saving and just shows the saving window with the little green thing going across.

    I didn't have this problem before.

    I started a new project and only added a background and this takes place so I know it is nothing I am adding in.

    the game I am using will have the background from the Jungle tiles, and the tiles from another set that I purchased.

    Those are giving me a little problems but that is for another thread.

    I cannot figure out what is happening.

    Ken

  • Sorry you misunderstood. I had purchased both licenses. I was unaware of the list on my profile until then.

    I have been away for two years and didn't remember purchasing the license in 2013.

    Anyway, I have contacted support and I am going to see what they say about it.

    It is already done and there is nothing I can do about it now anyway.