For me it doesn't matter if a tool is addressed to hobbyist or professional. Once it carries the job as I expect I simply use it.

At the end of the day, I need to have the job done, that is all.

I see a lot of ugly artwork created with Photoshop just claiming to be professional because they are using that bloated flagship. The right tool in the hands of someone knowing his/her business will do wonders, even the simplest tools used.

I believe based on what I read in the Scirra blogs, that C3 will be succesful. When I compare it to the way other tools work, it is indeed revolutionairy. I only regret the many negative responses here on the forum even before we could try it out.

I always wondered why hobbyist - professional status is so important. Don't you think a hobbyist can outclass a professional? Like I have said before, I do not care about any title, the way I work and their results will determine the quality of the work done, not any status.

I gladly make use of the services of a so called "hobbyist" who helps me getting the work done succesfully. Again, your status doesn't interest me, your skills do!!!

When I read the blog posts, I am already looking forward for the public beta release. I like what I read, so I am sure C3 will forfill my expectations just like C2 does.

Up until a month ago, I only made small games for our young daughter. But at the beginning of February I decided to make other games too, which I hope to sell for a small price.

A great part of what I do in Construct is very easy to accomplish with my right hand and the tablet. Once finding your way around, everything is very logical.

I will share my experiences with the community here.

Welcome to the Scirra community DeepThinker98.

You will find a lot of friendly and helpfull people here in this community.

If you wish, please tell us more about your first project. I am sure you are very excited about it.

Thank you all for your replies.

It is not a touchscreen but a physical drawing tablet. It works in absolute mode and is pressure sensitive.

You put it in front of your screen or besides depending on your personal preference. You can even set it up for right or left handed people.

Even drawing (I am using Affinity Designer) can with one hand. You can zoom in and out by using two fingers. Also moving two fingers up or down, will scroll the window. The true power shines when you use the brush tool, then the pressure sensitivity of the pen is fully used.

Once you get accustomized to the tablet and the pen, you work faster than with a touchpad or mouse. To move the cursor without drawing or doing anything, you just hover over the tablet surface to the place where you want to be. You can use the tablet without looking to it. It is very intuitive.

Dear All,

Lately there is so much negativity about Construct 3, I like to share my positive story.

Last year I had two CTS operations on both hands. The right hand went fine, the left hand has complications. Because of these complications, I have very much difficulty with typing or using that hand for anything.

Early this year I bought a Wacom Medium Comic & Touch tablet to make my programming life easier. It has an onscreen keyboard when you go to the left most side, which is a very handy feature.

Of all the applications I tried, only Construct is the simplest to use. I can do almost anything within Construct with the tablet and the pen provided. I can do everything now with my right hand.

The events and behaviour system Scirra developed is simply great. I cannot name any other application which I know, who has the same genious user interface.

If you like me, having heavy constraints at one hand and want to make games, Scirra together with a good drawing tablet (does not have to be Wacom) is the place to be. On very important fact to keep in mind about the size of tablet, take your screen size into consideration. Do not buy a Large tablet for a 15.6 inch laptop screen. For most applications, a medium sized tablet is fine because it has a good convertion rate and you can take it with you wherever you go.

You will need to adapt and use a lot of practice but believe me, the moment you start mastering your tablet and Scirra, it only gets better and soon you will be up to speed with a normal user.

Keep up the good work Scirra!!! You are doing a great job and I hope we will see much more of you in the future.

The future is shining again bright, not only for the Scirra team but also for people like myself.

Thank you Scirra for giving me my future again. Hope others will find their way to Construct 2 - 3 too.

Dear Zebbi,

Thank you for your comments and remarks which I appreciate very much.

I regret very much that you and many others, have to create games for free. I created games for our 8 year daughter. Construct is for me an excellent tool.

As for you and the other small game developers, in my opinion, you all deserve so much more better than instead of have to do it all for free.

Its one of the reasons, I pay for any software, asset, resource I use, just out of principle.

When I bought Construct 2 I was happy with the Personal licence and all the updates which where for free. I found it indeed very generous all those free updates.

There are many models in the Scirra C3 subscription and surely you will find the right one for you. Only the sun comes up freely.

I really do not understand why people still make such problems about the subscription model. Take it the other way around, if you sell a game you worked on for more than a year. Would you like Scirra also give the next updates for free? Are you also working for free?

I also read the blog post about the event sheets features.

Nice to see we can print out our eventsheets in C3. Thank you Scirra!!!

Please people, be nice to each other. Everybody has the right of their own opinions.

I am in several subscription models which is not a problem for me. I read that many people have negative feelings about the subscription model and from their point of view, they can be correct or not.

However, a subscription model can also have many positive effects :

The software company behind the subscription model gets more resources to add new features. They also have to listen more to their customer base, because when they neglect feature requests or bug fixes too often, they loose customers.

In a subscription model, companies have to deliver a quality product. Also at least one major upgrade a year is necessary for the subscription to stay succesfull.

I am using Kotobee Author (interactive ebook creation tool) in the basic subscription model (100 USD/year) which gives you 1 year free updates. Nobody there is complaining because it is a superb tool with regular updates within a year. In return for your subscription, Kotobee people are listening and specially interested in the requests and feedback from their userbase. For example, you can contact them and within hours you have your reply. We should expect the same excellent service from Scirra.

C3 working in a browser is a big plus for me, however I am using FireFox and be very reluctant for security reasons of my privacy, using Chrome.

Why not give C3 a chance? If you have a present licence, it is half price for the first year. Lets see during that first year how C3 performs and if Scirra can keep up with new features and user requests. If after one year, you are not satisfied, you can still choose another game development tool.

There is also a monthly subscription model, which fit the needs of a hobbyist with limited finances. You can let say pay for April, not using it in May (in this case no subscription is paid) and then take a new monthly subscription for June.

In my personal opinion, I find the yearly subscription model very affordable but again, I respect when you think different.

C2 despite it shortcomings, is a very good game development tool, both for beginners and experienced users. Even our daughter of 8 can enjoy it. We are creating a Mancala game which is the oldest board game in the world and coming from Africa (my home is in Gaborone Botswana Africa). I am surprised how easy she find her way in the C2 event sheets.

Regretfully for her, I am not always in Botswana because my work is in Belgium. With C3 which is browser based, she can also work with C3 when I am not there, using another licence. From an educational point of view, this will be a very interesting situation for her because now she will also learn how to work over the internet.

I am afraid positivity is somewhere getting lost in all the negativity. Many people are afraid of change, and sometimes with good reason. However, in this case I am sure we are looking into a very bright future for Construct. Scirra was groundbreaking by using HTML5 years ago, and I am sure they will be groundbreaking again.

Always keep an open mind for new developments.

We also cannot print event sheets in Construct 2. Just like you this is a feature I would gladly see becoming available in Construct 3.

What I do, is using FastStone ScreenCapture and make a screen capture which I print to a physical printer or Nitro PDF creator.

FastStone has an option to print your screen even when parts fall off the visible area. It also let you record your actions on screen, which can be very handy.

I read the blog this afternoon about the "sprite and animations" editor in C3 and got very excited about it. We cannot deny the fact that there are many improvements over C2.

Using Construct 3 in a browser alone will be a true bargain for me. Nothing to install and you can work at every computer with internet.

I am sure over the next months, there will come a lot of new exciting announcements from Scirra. Can't wait!!!

Please accept my apology, somewhere along the line I was misunderstanding.

My former post was about a Drawing tablet which has nothing to do with the tablets mentioned here.