Oh, and I just want to say a big thanks to everyone at Scirra! Using Construct 3 is a ton of fun and I'm still amazed that I can create 1920x1080 games that run so nicely in a BROWSER. Outstanding!

And it's such a versatile tool... This year I thought, "Hey, I wonder if I could add a full screen video?" I had to lower the resolution to get it to stream well, but it worked great, and it was very easy to implement.

After I got this year's game working I thought, "Next year, when I have more time, I should add the ability to save your progress..." I did a little research and it was so easy I had it working in like 15 minutes! How awesome is that?

My daughter has always loved Easter -- so even after she became an adult my wife and I continued to have an egg hunt for her every year.

Four years ago we moved away to Europe. When that first Easter came around I decided to use Construct to make her an ONLINE egg hunt using pictures of our old house! She loved it, so the virtual Egg Hunt is now a yearly tradition.

The theme changes every year. This year it was: "Our Mexican Christmas!" and I used photos from our recent trip together. We stayed at an airbnb on the beach and it was glorious!

Here is this year's game: cuttergames.com/egghunt_2020

INSTRUCTIONS & NOTES:

1. There are 10 scenes. Each scene has 5 eggs. Find them all to move on.

2. You can zoom in and out using the middle mouse wheel. (When zoomed in, you can drag the screen.)

3. The game is a whopping 75mb. Give it some time to start.

4. I downloaded the music from YouTube. Please do not distribute!

I'm working on a prototype for work and it runs great on my PC, but on my iPad, even though my browser is full screen, every time I drag an item the whole screen (browser window?) moves at the same time.

Any suggestions to fix this?

UPDATE:

I continue to research this problem but I'm not finding much in the forums. One suggestion said to play with the scaling options. I think I've officially tried them all now, but without any luck. I also changed the layer scaling to "0" and the layer parallax to "0,0".

I'm using the Browser object to change to full screen and I thought maybe that was the problem. Unfortunately, turning it off had no effect.

Thanks for the nice comments. It's fun to put those little games together every year. Takes me a couple of days to find and edit the new music, pick out some new eggs, hide them in the scenes, etc.

I have one "egg" object with two animations: "full" and "pieces". I use a paint tool to hide the eggs (by scaling, cropping, etc.) then I save the pieces and import those frames into "pieces". I place the pieces in the scenes using C3 and change a variable for each piece to indicate which "full" egg it comes from. Then the game engine I created four years ago handles everything else.

you made it really hard though! there was a nasty hidden egg in the coffee house.. I never even saw it.. I clicked it by mistake.. I must have heard that Winter Wonderland song about 5 times!!

Haha. Yeah, sorry about that. I knew that scene was going to be really hard so I actually hid 6 eggs in that one. There are two hard ones and you only need to find one of them. (One egg is covering the letter "O" in FLORENCE. The other one is super tricky. There is an egg shaped object on the counter. That seemed too easy... so I hid the egg in the egg shaped object's *reflection*. Yeah, I suck.)

The game you made/make for your son sounds awesome! I love using Construct for projects like these.

When my wife and I moved to Europe we realized that it would be the first Easter that we didn't hide eggs for our daughter (she's 30). This made me kind of sad, so I found some pictures of our old house and used them to create an egg hunt game!

It has become a tradition and on Sunday I sent Autumn egg hunt game #4. This time the theme was "home", so I started with a picture of where she works in Seattle, followed by a picture of where I work in Berlin. (Then I did "drinks", "graffiti", etc.) There 10 scenes, 5 eggs in each scene.

NOTES/DISCLAIMERS:

1. The game runs in the browser. It's big and takes a minute or so to load. Be patient.
2. It ONLY works on PC/Mac. It doesn't work on phones or tablets.
3. You can use your middle mouse button to zoom in and out. This helps because I get a bit... creative... with some of my egg hiding. 😈
4. I don't own most of the pictures or any of the music. Copyright violations abound.

https://www.cuttergames.com/egghunt_2019

I thought about the scaling. Sure enough, mine is set at 100% and my wife's is at 125%. (These are the recommended settings on both of our laptops.)

Unfortunately, I tried changing MY scaling from 100% to 125% and it didn't make a difference. I can still see the full game screen.

AllanR I can't believe people are actually finishing the game. Some of those eggs were practically impossible to find. I'm trying to be more "fair" this year. :-) Did you discover that you can zoom in and out with the middle mouse wheel?

EDITED TO MAKE IT MORE CLEAR:

I have two browser games that are built using the same "engine". One uses the C2 runtime. The other uses the new C3 runtime. Both games run at 1920 x 1080, using scale inner for the display. (I use the browser object to change to full screen, this may negate the display setting.)

I have two laptops, both running 1920 x 1080 resolution. Chrome zoom is at 100% on both machines. Display "scaling" is at 125% on both machines.

Using the C2 runtime, the full game screen is visible on both games. Using the C3 runtime, one of the laptops looks fine, but the other is only showing about 80% of the screen. (I can see the full screen only by pressing CTRL- to zoom out to 80%.)

Any ideas why this is happening? I'm thinking there might be a setting problem with one of the machines, but I have no idea which one. (Note that I tried the display scaling already.)

UPDATE: I tried changing back to the C2 runtime but I was still having the same issues. (Last year's game worked fine, so I'm not sure what I changed.)

SOLVED: The issue seemed to be related to me going to full screen mode, so I checked the Browser object's settings and found that I was using "Centered" for the diplay. When I changed to "Scale Inner" it fixed my problem!