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  • The original test was on mobile with an Android Debug APK, but I guess the "Jankiness" is affecting all/many devices?? Guess the problem is much more widespread than I thought. I just want a smooth gaming experience for my consumers, that should be the base level of what we get from a gaming engine. Without that you don't have a game. People's suggestions are shocking: just make a game with no "scrolling?" Seriously? Don't use delta time? How in the world can you regulate speed then? Don't use bullet behavior? Bullet behavior is the foundational basis for many games! How can this even be considered a game engine? More like an experimental project with no basis in reality!!!! I like programming in construct, but trying to make a finished product with it is torturous (has been since day one). It never comes out as a very high quality product. Why can't it just work?? Apple had that motto for many years, "it just works". Out of the box, it just works. Construct's motto is: "It never works". No matter how hard you try, it will never do just what you need/want it to do... Please help!! Calling all programmers!!! We need help!!!!!! I just want this thing to work!! I wish it just exported to native code like many other engines do instead of relying wholly on a constantly changing framework (the chrome browser) to build apps on top of. What a terribly faulty/risky business model! What a terribly risky foundation!!!! How could anyone trust this engine??? It is not a serious game making tool, and right now, it is not even a serious prototyping tool. The "jank" renders the engine useless for me. For my purposes, it is broken, and it has been for quite some time... I too was called and invited by a Nintendo employee to produce games for the Wii U back in the day. My excitement was hard to contain. But Construct 2 was not suitable to produce games for that platform at that time, HTML5 was too slow on it. Or any platform in my experience. Apps were slow and buggy, PC games were slow and awkward. Everything I have produced with Construct with few exceptions has been a nightmare. I wish I had started on a different engine instead of pouring years into learning this one only to have my dreams dashed to pieces by its flaws and shortcomings...What a tragedy...

    Construct continues to be a disappointment, never fulfilling what it promises to do....

  • Agreed 150%

  • Thank you for helping me test this EVERYONE, you guys are the best....

  • Here's another one using a different screen recorder = it's SOOooo Jerky!!!!!!

    photos.app.goo.gl/yP8Yv3kVc358EwMB8

  • So, not sure if you can see this, but I just recorded a sample of its performance on my screen. (This is after tweaking it as much as I could to get it to run smoothly, to no avail...)

    Pay attention to how jerky the movement of the lines that scroll down the screen look. It's practically unplayable like this, and definitely not enjoyable like this...

    I tried my hardest to get it to run smoothly, but it looks like something is wrong with Construct because it is herky, jerky like I have never seen any other app before.

    Especially towards the middle of the video it gets Very very jerky...

    Also, what in the world is that black bar on the bottom of the screen for? That is so annoying. Sometimes it's there and sometimes it's not (when I switch away from the app and come back, sometimes it disappears and sometimes it doesn't.) Why are there so many problems and issues with mobile export???

    Video of stutter on Android 6.0.1 mobile Debug APK (new Construct 3 runtime):

    photos.app.goo.gl/bP3wjCG7fuG3zKy57

  • I just tested it on a pretty new (2 year old) chromebook, the results were better, but I wouldn't call it buttery smooth. It still looked stuttery over preview; the hosted one performed the best but it displayed a little bit of stutter as well, but it was less severe than on my Galaxy note phone. Still, I'm hoping for that buttery smooth performance that gamers instantly notice and appreciate......

  • I am still experiencing serious jank and stutter with stable release 131 and that hideous black bar at the bottom of the screen which does NOT go away after closing and reopening the app....

  • You didn't look at it did you.

    The project does not have mistakes.

    I've read the manual multiple times.

    The project is structured well, construct 3 is not.

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  • Pros:

    I have noticed a streamlined approach to game making with Construct.

    It's a fun user experience once you get used to it, although the online version slows down production a little bit (seconds count). Which is why Construct 2 still feels like a better user experience in that way for speed and efficiency.

    Cons:

    Poor end-product support.

    Example: Every time I have used the Construct 3 exporter to build apps, it has either not worked or displayed extremely poor performance. Similar problems have occurred since the beginning with PC export using NW.js. Not sure why Construct team doesn't think it important to support end user products, but its lack has been evident since day one of my Construct use. I don't anticipate anything changing in the near future or ever for this product...

    I even went to view finished products just released on the forums using the Construct engine, and all of them used a 3rd party solution to build their apps which itself didn't display extraordinarily good performance either. The whole product is limited by what it can produce as an end product and many thousands of users have experienced this painfully and left it for better products.

  • Theis entire Construct 3 project only has 7 events in it.

  • When I first start the app, there is noticeable Jankiness and a black bar that protrudes across the bottom of the screen. When I switch tasks and then go back to the already open app, the black bar is gone and there is less jank. Seems weird, what's going on?

  • Alright, so I am getting less jankiness now for some reason, still I would like to see other people's results if you have a sec to test it. Thanks you guys.:)

  • Hi, I am getting major jankiness on my phone with the most simple game built with Construct 3 Beta 130. It janks and sputters and stutters on my fully upgraded Galaxy note phone. I built it with Construct 130 and wondering if anyone else sees this major jankiness on their devices?

    I have included both the project here for you to look at and the Construct 130 debug APK for anyone to test on their own phones/Devices.

    Link to Construct 3 Simple Project:

    drive.google.com/file/d/1oD7f7DESmbEd66GgNvXf3xy-fP-d8OXc/view

    Link to Debug Android APK to test on different devices:

    drive.google.com/file/d/1CyzQw3zQ3T9M269AgaHQL5A5UNXF8U-7/view

    Please let me know how much jank you are seeing on a scale from 0-10. 10 being constant jankiness, 0 being no jankiness. Thanks!

  • Anyway, hate to leave them all in the dust.....wish our apps just worked when they download them and pay for them......

  • Just makes me feel bad for all the customers that are below 7 currently.

    That's precisely 51.5% of Android users (greater than half of all android users) that may have problems with Construct 3 builds...