Also, totally contrary to other comment that stated the opposite of what im about to say:
If it fails and Animate doesnt prove being a viable product, they wont probably take that much time to close the development investment on the project.
If it succeeds, it will mean more income to Scirra and thus more resources to hire more staff, so no "splitting of attention" right there.
My only feedback would be I would rather have it also as a paid addon for C3, apart from the standalone subscription for non C3 users, so C3 users wont have to deal with multiple programs that are 90% similar.
That last sentence about your seemingly honest fear about Scirra turning into a big monopoly as google was kinda cute tbh.
I will add, before learning Adobe After Effects (because I was required to in the current job I have now), I opted for animating stuff on construct. It was simple stuff and mostly for fun, but I can see how Construct is capable of being a tool for that if some of the animation aspects are refined.
̶A̶s̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶a̶i̶d̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶ ̶r̶a̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶ ̶C̶o̶n̶s̶t̶r̶u̶c̶t̶ ̶3̶ ̶g̶r̶o̶w̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶m̶u̶l̶t̶i̶m̶e̶d̶i̶a̶ ̶c̶r̶e̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶n̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶S̶c̶i̶r̶r̶a̶ ̶b̶r̶a̶n̶c̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶p̶o̶w̶e̶r̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶a̶i̶n̶t̶a̶i̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶2̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶n̶d̶a̶l̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶d̶u̶c̶t̶s̶.̶
Edit: How easily people are influenced by other's opinions. I changed my mind reading the whole thread from what I thought when I originally wrote this. Now Im less skeptical about Scirra being able to correctly manage this project while maintaining their scope on C3.
Sorry, but.. damn. All that reading only to read in your edit what I am already doing.
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