> Someone else just posted about how much you can do with just 50 events. I think there is indeed quite a lot of scope to do things within that limit. You can certainly make interesting mini-games and such.
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> Something I've noticed from around a decade working in commercial software is no matter what the free limits are, someone will come along and argue there should be more available for free. We have to run as a business though. If we give too much away free and nobody buys the software, we'd go out of business, and then the software wouldn't exist at all. You can throw around some big changes to the whole business plan, but I can assure you many of them would also totally ruin us. We have our own unique market and niche and we've put a great deal of thought in to it already, and I'm pretty happy with where we've ended up.>
Thanks for the official answer.
I am well aware of the post on how much you can do with just 50 events. But it's not just about the events. Also the limitation of the layers and scripts bring the game design quickly to the limits or make sure that I have to think of complicated workarounds.
To bring it to the point, the most disturbing things for me are:
- Limitation to 50 events
- Limitation to 2 layers
- Limitation to two JavaScript files with 50 lines each
However, I would put it this way. You can do quite a bit with it, I just would never do it that way if all the features were available to me. So I bend structures to meet the limitations and I don't know if I want to teach that.
In this respect, I consider the current limitations to be very incisive for the learning process.
We don't have to discuss that Construct is a paid software and I don't want to point out or suggest to make the full functionality available for free.
But wouldn't there have been less drastic options for non-commercial use?
Just thoughts from me:
- Watermark in Build
- Limitation of screen resolution (game resolution)
- Limit storage space size for assets
I'm not talking about professional use either, I'm just talking about teaching. And there Construct makes itself useless for most teachers with the restrictions. At this point, the objection comes: "Yes, we want to sell our education license. "
I can only say that in several years I have not had one school that has purchased several licenses for teaching.
The result is always that despite the higher entry hurdle switched to another engine. And apart from the fact that it is bad for me 😉 I just ask the question whether this is beneficial for Construct. Of course, I can only speak for myself in my small environment in Germany and do not know how others are doing.
Watermark does sound like a good idea if they would upgrade the free version.