Tom's Forum Posts

  • It was OK. The animals were amazingly done though, with their personalities and facial expressions, really made me laugh and the comic timing was spot on.

    But the singing was boring. As were the cliche characters (I know it's classic disney, but come on it's got to get tiring at some point)

  • Has to be an even number.

  • Saying it's a royalty is incorrect, as royalties are usually based on percentage shares of profits, or some linear relationship between sales volume and royalty amount.

    This is a higher prices license, for companies that turn over higher volumes.

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  • Thanks for the link Candescence, we will definitely review it's potential.

  • I don't think it would be a hassle, I think it would be the best solution.

    Say you want to make an explosion plugin for HTML5, you click it makes an explosion effect. If you made an explosion plugin that was 1-fit-all for all exporters, you wouldn't be able to easily make best use of all that platforms unique features. It would probably also run a lot slower overall on all platforms. It would be incredibly different to maintain.

    So it's better for the Javascript expert to make the explosion plugin, then the DirectX expert to make a different explosion plugin.

  • I'm not sure if you understand the way Construct 2 will work fully. You have your editor, and you design you game in the editor. When you export as HTML5, it will generate all the Javascript and HTML for you. When you press export as EXE, it will generate all the executable code for you. This is a modular design, and the HTML5 exporter is different to the EXE exporter, so there will be no Javascript involved at all in the EXE exporter.

  • You can at the moment manually put all exported JS through an obfuscator or the google compiler then server that, but I think there are some bugs (in regards to closure compiler) that need to be sorted out. But try running it through an obfuscator, there are lots out there.

  • Any HTML/CSS/JS a user downloads and runs online will have it's source fully viewable. There are no ways around this, and don't believe anyone that tells you otherwise. Also, don't disable right clicking on pages, etc etc, it's all incredibly weak protection that annoys people more than serves it's purpose!

    However, you can obfuscate the code, and run it through a compiler (for example Google's closure compiler: http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home) and this makes it extremely hard, and requiring a lot of skill to make sense of your code.

    Obfuscation I believe is a feature that will be added to the export process as an option when Construct 2 gets more mature.

  • Sort of worked this out today, it's pretty cool but I can't think of any use for it!

    Fastest algorithm to find out if one word is a scrambled version of the other. (Same # chars).

    If u map each character in the alphabet to a unique prime number:

    a=2, b=3, c=5 etc etc

    then you get a word like:

    "Scirra"

    Multiply all the primes together that form that word.

    Doesnt matter what order they are in, you get the same result every time, no loops needed! No other word will generate that final number. (That's a cool feature of prime numbers, hence why they are used in cryptography so often).

    This is probably theoretical because length of word + alphabet size make the maximum integer size too large to handle.

  • Try:

    "Tex bla bla" + newline + "more text bla bla"

  • The difference is turnover.

    If you are selling less than $20,000 a year of games, you only need the discount license.

    If you sell > $20,000 a year, you need commercial.

  • Thanks everyone!

  • Feel free to ask any HTML/CSS questions here, I'd be happy to help you out if you get stuck on anything.

  • I know its a little childish, but its also fun. How bout a special symbol, or customizable tag under the avatars of the prepurchasers?

    Yes, we were going to have some sort of badges system, all things being well there should be an Alpha Supporter badge, or something similar.

  • All great points and posts. We do read all of them, and are considering everything.

    The special forum for license holders, and possibly other online benefits (if we can think of them) are all things we want to do. The website is going to have a massive overhaul, to become a more exciting and interactive place for everyone.