Tom's Forum Posts

  • No problem and thank you for the comment, much appreciated!

  • > We always say it in office as Skirra (pronounced like Skipper) but most people say Seera or Sirra

    >

    Origin story ?

    Ashley wanted to call it Cirrus after the cloud type, but that .com was taken so he swapped a few letters about

  • We always say it in office as Skirra (pronounced like Skipper) but most people say Seera or Sirra

  • On a side note, since there doesn't seem to be anywhere else proper to mention it, are you still going to do away with Scirra as a name? Seems strange to refer to the company as Construct, I can't do it. Or maybe the Construct Team. But Scirra still rolls off the tongue (keyboard?) easier.

    Yes we are, will always be our corporate name/official business name, but we're going to be slowly dropping it from communications/branding etc. Part of me feels a little sad seeing it go from front and centre to the back a little bit more as well! But I'm sure it's the right decision. You wouldn't believe the amount of ways we've heard Scirra pronounced, and times I've had to spell it phonetically on the phone!

    Being able to say tom at construct dot net instead of tom at "now let me spell it for you, sierra charlie... yes that's right, no not skeariah, skeerah" will save me a few hours each year

  • I'll add some to the positivism

    Tom

    A couple years ago I thought your presence here seemed rather useless (couldn't see your contribution to scirra).

    Now I've been gone and out most of the last 18 months, but man, you've stepped up.

    Nice forum presence and arranging a wildcards of things ... Nice work ^_^

    P.s. add a new blog occasionally (personal interest ones)

    Lots going on behind the scenes that doesn't impact people directly - fixing bugs on website etc. A good chunk of every day is taken up with businessy stuff as well, and some customer support (although Julien is a star and manages to do the bulk of it!)

    Have also been working on the Construct.net website for over a year which has been a pretty big engineering challenge. You'll see lots of rapid improvements on the site after the beta (from now until then it's working on the payments system which is fiddly).

  • The fact it only runs on android doesn't cut it for the more serious and devoted developers.

    Are you talking about the Construct 3 editor, or games made in Construct 2/3, or multiplayer?

  • You haven't been harsh at all! I don't want people to feel they can't be critical - you can and that is often some of the most valuable feedback we can action.

    Our address is on our contact page, gifts are always awesome but are completely not necessary! If you feel compelled to send us something, more postcards to stick on our postcard wall are always welcome!

  • We have a graphic designer working full time right now He completed a couple more of those images which I'm adding to the site today.

    Right now regarding server development of the site, am working on implementing all the billing/invoicing for the launch.

  • The licensing is changing from C2 to C3, the $5,000 USD cap is no longer going to be an option .

    As a sole trader, you have two activities:

    • Personal activities
    • Sole trader acitivities

    If you're using C3 for purely personal acitivites, not related to your sole trader status Personal Edition is fine.

    If you're using C3 for your sole trader business or generating income from your projects which is being accounted for in your sole trader business you need a business edition. A lot of sole traders I imagine will fall into the Startup Business license, not the full license.

    Having said all that, we realise there's an awkward transition here for people who currently are using the personal edition of C2, and are looking to upgrade to C3 - for example in Germany individuals must register as sole traders if you want to garner any income.

    We're thinking about a solution for this, but I have said that anyone who falls into this category we can do the following for the initial year:

    • Buy a C3 startup business licence/business license as appropriate
    • Email support
    • We will then refund the majority of the payment so the total you have paid is the same as the Personal Edition with the discount applied (~$50 USD)

    Hope that answers the questions.

  • There's a lot of levels of caching between you and the server (lots!) We're getting a few bugs which we're dealing with as they come up. Caching bugs are pretty tricky to deal with but bear with us I think we're nearly there.

  • I don't think Ashley has any plans to bring back the Ribbon I'm afraid. Pros and cons of all UI components.

    Havok couple of small corrections/comments:

    [quote:1zzjhjb8]Now it can work on iPad etc.

    It wont work on your iPad, iPhone etc and probably wont for the foreseeable future. Android support is good though.

    [quote:1zzjhjb8]In a browser...Chrome. So now the Menu button is in the way and oddly placed and one loses quit a bit of space at the top to accommodate the tabs actual browser menu bar and address bar.

    This is a good point. Desktop build will get rid of that, and secondly in Chrome:

    • Open https://editor.construct.net
    • Click options in top right
    • Click 'more tools'
    • Click 'add to desktop'
    • Make sure 'open in new window' is selected

    This will create a desktop shortcut where Construct 3 opens without any of the browser UI <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

    [quote:1zzjhjb8]Can't save to hard drive: I like the fact that I can save to DropBox / OneDrive but imho there NEEDS to be an offline save. For the love of all things NOT cloud. Please.

    You can save and open files locally! Cloud is completely optional!

    [quote:1zzjhjb8]Always needed to be connected to internet to launch. - No internet...well you are SOL paying friend.

    Works offline 100% fine! Try bookmarking https://editor.construct.net once it's finished loading completely. Pull your internet cable out, and open the shortcut. It should work just fine <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile"> We're working on a solution to make sure this works with paid versions, it will likely just require you to be online a minimum of once per month just to ensure your license is still active.

    [quote:1zzjhjb8]Having to deal with Doubleclick.net, Google cookies

    Are aware some users wont be comfortable with Google Analytics, users who purchase a license from us will have the option to disable all of that.

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  • The unfortunate reality is that from doing analysis on usage of Construct 2 , we see a much higher proportion of free edition users than we hoped. The goal of the free edition was to get people interested who would then buy a personal edition license once they are familiar with C2, but the limits in C2 free edition appear to be seemingly adequate for a LOT of people.

    So we were faced with two options, time limited version of more restrictive free edition.

    We decided against a time restricted free version, and decided to go for more restrictions on the free edition of C3 in the hope it will lead to more sales (pretty confident it will). We've started off conservatively, so we can expand the free edition at a later date if we so choose to (this is a million times more preferable than starting off with too many free features, and having to take them away from people!). However, we have no plans to do this at all. If things go well, it will likely stay that way.

  • Understand the frustration! Couple of things to mention:

    • Don't want to start selling now, product needs to go through the beta period to iron out bugs
    • Not interested in selling pre-orders either, not a model we really like and will cause some administrative burdens/extra work to support it

    Regarding free edition limits:

    • Ashley has said that it's 1,000x easier to fix bugs that are discovered in small projects. It gets much much harder and time consuming to pin down, isolate and fix bugs in bigger projects
    • The Newgrounds jam will have all features unlocked for everyone
    • Having said all this, if the bugs do start drying up prior to the jam (because we've fixed them all!) we might consider expanding the events. But as it stands, we've got plenty to be getting on with.

  • Yes absolutely. We've always said that without a subscription (even in the free edition) you can open any project and look around it, preview it etc.