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  • American here (sorry), so yesterday was 4th of July, which equals fireworks.

    So I had a little fun with Construct Particles and created some simple fireworks:

    loubagel.itch.io/daves-fireworks

    Note: I've had several people mention or ask me to put them in color. I went with the 1 bit theme for this one as I'm working on a game right now with that same theme (click the dude drinking coffee to link to that game)

  • Thanks TheRealDannyyy

    Good point on not listing them too high and having people not purchase. But also don't want to list too low and have buyers have a bad experience (negative reviews, refunds, etc).

    I've also purchased games that have too high specs for my current computer and just gave them a try to see if it is still playable at all. A lot of the times it is completely playable just a few issues, for example choppy at cut scenes, but didn't bother me because I had worse expectations going in.

  • Thank you OddConfection

    I may end up starting with what you have listed here and then tweaking upon user testing. Do you mind linking your game? That way I can compare..but also curious.

  • Hello,

    I'm working on a game to sell on Steam. Setting up the Steam page you are required to list minimum/recommended system requirements for Windows and MacOS (and Linux too if uploading).

    Has anyone uploaded to Steam before? I don't use any external plugins so I'd figure that no matter what you do inside Construct the export has the same system requirements?

    Thought I'd ask here before trying to do testing myself.

    Thanks,

    Lou Bagel

    (game is called Dave-Man)

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    I played the app but I couldn't figure out how to exit from the pc using my gamepad. Dave just sat there in the chair.

    Ah yes, I need to update the control support, thank you! Right now space bar is the only action that can select a menu option (from computer, bookshelf, record player, etc)

  • Congrats on getting funded Lou Bagel!

    Nice little insight post on doing your first Kickstarter too. Good luck with the rest of the game!

    Thanks! I will try to do some more posts, too!

  • Whoop Whoop!

    Released the Demo today and launched a Kickstarter!

    Demo: loubagel.itch.io/dave-man

    Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/294143625/dave-man-get-dave-his-coffee

    Also wrote a little Medium post about launching a Kickstarter for the first time! medium.com/@christaylor_85087/first-kickstarter-pre-launch-84391fe2548b

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  • Close to releasing the demo for my game Dave-Man! I'll keep this initial post short to focus on the teaser:

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    About

    Dave-Man is a game by Lou Bagel with music by Scowsh. You play as Dave who desperately needs his coffee before interacting with any co-workers. With Pac-Man inspired gameplay you must collect all the coffee beans and make it to the coffee maker without getting caught by the office “Chatty Cathy”. Your success in this mission will affect your mood and productivity during the day which will determine your paycheck. Take your money home and do some online shopping however you please...but don’t neglect the missus!

  • Everything seems to save like normal but when opening up a project sometimes I notice changes I made last time I worked on it don't seem to be present.

    So I look at the dates that the files were last modified and there are auto-backup files that have later times than the capx file.

    If I notice it right away I can load the backup but if I don't then it is as if hours of hard work just disappeared. I can pull up a backup file but then I have to find all the changes I made in the project and reconcile the two versions.

    This is very infuriating.

  • 1) I assure you I did not save AS, I try to keep very organized.

    2) I DID lose something. I know minutes vs days may seem like I should look on the brighter side, but with a complicated project where you spend a lot of time testing and fixing you may not realize for some time that something you fixed got lost.

    3) The core issue is still there—I click save and it shows that it is saved but it is not. A basic necessity for any program you pay for that you are trying to build a business around.

    I appreciate you trying to be positive here but don't want this to be trivialized as I'm considering taking my future business elsewhere. It could be something I did or just an issue on my computer but I'm 100% positive I did not select SAVE AS instead of SAVE.

  • Hello,

    I would put this in bugs but I know if the guidelines for bug reports aren't followed exactly they just get closed. For example I don't know how I would get a "working capx" for this.

    Over the past week there has been multiple times when I save a project but after closing the project and re-opening it is not the updated version. I believe it is the version from when first opened.

    This is the best thing to show that I can think of:

    I had my project ("Dave") opened for 2 days working on it. I click save one last time, wait a moment to allow for the save, then exit. When opening Construct back up I notice that in the recent projects the autosave file is listed as the most recent. I open up the project anyway and it is definitely not the most updated version. I take a look in the folder and can see when the files were last updated, showing a 2 day gap in the autosave and the file that was supposedly saved.

    I am using Construct 2 r265, which I believe is the most recent stable version. Personal License.

    Being able to save your work reliably is a pretty basic necessity. I know Construct 3 has been out for a while now and that is the main focus. So I tend not to complain about anything else I find with C2 since I know I'm not using the newest product, but I'm still a paying customer as I purchased the C2 license what seemed like just months before they announced they would be working on C3. I am hoping to upgrade to C3 after releasing a tiny game or two and can justify the monthly expense. I am a huge Construct fan but this kind of shakes my faith in the product a bit—hopefully it is just a bug that gets fixed quickly. With all the options out there it would seem ridiculous to pay for something that can't even save your work reliably.

    Time to open up the autosave and try to see if I can figure out if it missed anything...

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