— Sorry for asking, but are you the creator of Gold Miner? Your profile picture just got me curious haha.

—, no, it is a character from the game Gold Rush, a video slot game from Anakatech/Netomedia.

That is what I'm making for a living, in my free time I'm doing entire different kind of games.

Gold mining theme is a strong theme for many genres of games, and for some reason Redneck'ish-Old'ish-Miner is a popular character.

Regarding the new feature in the blog: Audio preview (also can be done in video preview)

Please, put a "Loop" check-box to preview (prehear) the sound how it is looping.

In games many sounds are very short, please, add decimals of a second to see the exact lenghts and sound positions.

Because sometimes you get sounds that are not exactly fitting the animation, you want to stretch the animations and adjust the flow to fit the sound both in lenght and timing.

compare 2 values

len(textobject) < 9 add number

The only flaw of that logic is that the user can use Ctrl+V to enter infinite amount of numbers.

Better to use (Usefull not only for numbers):

*TextBox: On Changed

->TextBox: Set text to left(self.Text,9)

If you want only positive numbers you can use:

*TextBox: On Changed

->TextBox: Set text to str(clamp(float(Self.Text), 0, 999999999))

If you want positive whole numbers:

*TextBox: On Changed

->TextBox: Set text to str(clamp(int(Self.Text), 0, 999999999))

Overlap at offset +1

If you will expand your game and will have multiple objects with "sensors" - it will be hell to set them one by one.

Better to put the kinds of objects you want to "sense" in a family and make one "Overlap at offset" condition on the family to cover all the possible future expansions.

[quote:2uc12zt2]The Addon Manager

First of all Construct 3 has a brand-new Addon Manager. This lists all the addons available to the editor — both built-in and installed. It also provides a single central place to install new addons and uninstall existing ones. This makes it a lot easier to review and manage your addons!

I have some concerns about the statement above, it raises some issues:

• What if some developers don't want to share their addons, for example businesses with their own unique developments.
• What if some developers don't want even to upload their addons, will they still work?
• What about plugging for sale?
• If it will be a "lists all the addons available" and " central place" - search is needed, in short future if will be filled with hundreds of addons.

What about Lenovo Yoga Tablet 3 Pro?

Sounds very promising, ~500$, 4gb ram, 1.4 quad processor busting up to 2.4ghz, 8GB graphic processor 600MHz, 64gb storage, long live battery, android...

Also with projector - it sound cool to play your game on the the wall while controling on your lap.

I use the RCA 10" W101 for tablet testing games.

....

Keep in mind most of your customers are probably kids not using a high end tablet.

For testing, sure. For testing it is better to test on the widest variety of devices as possible.

But for development, should exist "the sacred one" - almighty and easy to use.

Yes, most of my customers don't use high end tablets, no, most of my customers are 30+

So far:

Surface Pro 4 comes with range of specs, it can be equiped with M, i5 or i7 processors, ram 4gb, 8gb or 16gb and SSD 128GB-1TB

Prices $599.00 - $2,599.00

I will consider that. Strong, useful, can run even C2, short battery, not "full" android.

Cromebook - interesting, should be investigated.

Pixel C - same

Galaxy tab - I heard (rumored) that maybe Galaxy tab S3 will be announced in April, March or even in MWC 2017(feb27-march2), with good specs per price (300-400$)

Cheap tabs - not very interesting for me. Or maybe something more specific?

Get a cheap android tablet - will do the job.

I'm more considering, what are the good options among the android devices.

The cheap ones wont do the job, I testes some games on tablets, and those have high resolution with weak specs.

The phones running better than those tablest

I hope to find something with good specs.

Lets say something that can run smooth 60fps with 30 256x256px physics sprites with blur both vertical and horizontal in full screen resolution.

And the price is something secondary for me.

Surfaces... Maybe...

As you know C3 will run on mobile and tablets, I want to give it a try, I always wanted to take game development with me.

But I wander, what device should I pick?

I think it should have very very strong CPU, good ram, good videocard.

Secondary: Storrage, battery life, I preffer non-apple

And as a "big-fingered" person, I preffer something with 10+ inch display, 12 is good

Price - rational. I know that I'm asking for something that should be priced 700$+, but maybe there are some good deals

It is a kind of first topic of a kind, so maybe it should be more open topic, so feel free to suggest and discuss

Kyatric, thank you.

Not many updates in january. Hope it will be changed with Construct3 in February.

I also would like to know the answer to that question.