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  • Great tutorial thanks for sharing

  • I wonder if you could use a collaborative Google spreadsheet to do this.

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  • Hi Kyatric,

    Sorry we didn't reply to your other thread! The great thing about HTML5 is it comes with websockets, and AJAX requests. Both of these features we plan to fully support with Construct 2, and aim to make it as easy as possible to make multiplayer games.

    I did read your other post, and have been thinking about it. It's difficult to do, but it's something we are thinking about a lot. Node.JS would be a great candidate for Construct 2 built server applications.

    With HTML and AJAX requests, it will be really really easy to make requests to servers with HTTP requests to execute certain SQL commands, and retrieve data. Websockets will be more functional for streaming/realtime data.

    Tom

  • Great post Lucid

    I think making socio-political predictions on any medium is hard enough, but to make it on the next 1 or 2 centuries is even harder, and then to make predictions on an immature and extremely fast moving technology is even harder!

    It's fascinating though, I like how the web really seems to be furthering openness and true democracy as well. It's definitely and interesting time to live in, and the web is probably going to be looked back on in history as the defining and most important event of our age.

  • It's possible to exchange bit coins for USD though I think!

    It's a really interesting concept, but it's very illiquid at the moment, but will be interesting to follow. I downloaded the bit coin generator, and I can do 10000khash/s (6 core 3.4ghz), which means on average I will make about $30 a year at current rates. I don't see why people are doing it, seems very unprofitable from electricity costs... Interesting though.

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  • Really hard to explain! Best read the bit coin website FAQ.

    Basically it's a P2P currency. If I have 10 bitcoins in my account, I can enter your ID and send you 1 bit coin. It's verified somehow within the network.

    They have real value, you can buy and sell them for real money and goods in some places. But the weird thing about them all is you can set your computer to generate them. It brute forces some arbitary hash or something, and if you are lucky you get awarded 50 bitcoins (~$40 at the moment).

    The more people generating, the harder it is to win them. But, the harder it is to win them, the less profitable it is when you take computer running costs into account. So, the electricity cost of your machine generating coins is a natural market stabiliser.

    It's really strange and a very very unique take on currency.

  • Anyone read about these? I've been reading a lot, it's incredibly bizarre, but has some very compelling possibilities and implications. The entire system, quite frankly is pretty genius.

    I wouldn't go investing a ton in it yet though, it's an extremely volatile currency, and it's unproven. A better currency, or a security flaw in it could wipe the bit coins value overnight. But nether less, it's a fascinating concept.

  • No worries Any other questions, just ask.

    Hopefully on the new site I'll be able to spend some time writing some JS tutorials/reference pages. They should be quite useful.

  • Symbols marked in red:

    ball.x += ball.vx;

    Here's an easier example:

    5 += 3;

    This is 8. It's the same as:

    5 = 5 + 3;

    Same with *=:

    100*= 0.99;

    This will equal 99. It's the same as:

    100 = 100*0.99;

    Multiplying by 0.99 represents 99% of it's value. If you multiplied by 0.01 you would get 1% of it's value.

    ball.vy = -Math.abs(ball.vy);

    Maths.abs() takes the absolute (positive) value of it's input.

    Math.abs(-454) = 454;

    Math.abs(13) = 13 (does nothing, already positive number)

    Doing -Math.abs() will get it's negative value, so it guarantees a negative number.

    Hope that helps

  • Online editor for C2? Me and Ash have talked about it but that's a huge project Maybe one day...

    The new site will use gravatar. I've talked to a couple of people about this, if when the site is released people don't like it, then we will offer an alternative, but initially it will be gravatar.

  • The site should be slim enough and well designed enough for it to load nicely in smart phones on mobile connections. I think the data on each page (forgetting cacheable resources) is only around 15-25kb.

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