Hi all,

Can you please give me some advice about the use of a timeline to create an interactive history story of my village Dessel?

Here is the outline of the story.

The story goes about the history of my village in 1271 until 300 years in the future. A normal family travels back in time to the birth of the village. Then they follow the path through times to important events, the way of living, wars, how people worked, farmed and so on. In every year an important event happened, the family will be present.

I want to create a text story where the reader can make interactive choices and based on that choice, takes another part to read in the story. I also intend to include some old games which can be played between the reads at the time they were popular.

Now Intend to create a timeline in C3 with those important dates. For example :

1224 --> first people settled in my village

1271 --> birth of my village

and so on.

Can I create this timeline lets say with the dates :

1221 - 1271 - 1300 - 1400 - 1500 and so on until the year 2300

in C3?

I am working (researching, planning and plotting) for more than a year now. Now I start actually writing the story and have to choose my interactive environment.

I think C3 has many advantages over Squiffy - Twine - Quest because I can mix the text story (interactive book) with interactive games.

The problem is, I am overwhelmed by the complexity of this project. I taught writing would have been difficult but it seems the easiest part of the project. I want to learn and create this project successfully. It is part of the celebration year 2021 when my village turns 750. I am participating in the official celebration. With 3 other writers, I write for the end spectacle in November 2021.

I will appreciate your advice, suggestions, ideas and help very much. Can you tell me if this project can be done with C3? It will be part of an HTML website, an app for Android or just for PC.

Also, pointers to tutorials (Scirra - Youtube) will be very helpful.

Thank you in advance for your time spent on my request.

Have a nice day!

Chris

I agree with Bartalluyn, C3 is a great game development tool. By the way, those Youtube tutorials look great. Make sure you follow the link.

Chris

Thank you again. My favourite adventure game is the Medievil - Primal series on PlayStation one (Medievil 1 and 2), Primal (Playstation 2) and Medievil (PS4). Also, Atlantis for PlayStation One comes to mind.

Medievil the hero Daniel Fortesque has to defeat the evil sorcerer Zarok. He has to make his way through 20 levels full of corpses, enemies which he has to defeat with swords, bow, hammers, axes. There are also puzzles to solve. Every time he kills an enemy the chalice is filled until full. Then after finishing successfully he goes to the hall of heroes to get extra weaponry.

A better candidate is Atlantis which is a graphics/text-based adventure full of weird puzzles. In this adventure there are enemies but they are not killed by weapons but by solving puzzles or riddles or search for alternate paths.

Hope this helps to get your ideas.

Chris

Thank you so much. Can I suggest a tutorial about an Adventure game with puzzles, keys to open doors, hidden rooms and defeating enemies and solving the logic?

Whatever tutorial you create, your efforts will be appreciated.

Keep up the good work!

Chris

I am sure you safely can buy a C3 subscription. A subscription means that there is a regular flow of cash to the company, which is a better guarantee for the future than a lifetime license like C2.

When I was using C2 which I also like very much, I taught about the lifetime license much often. I find the subscription system Scirra chose, very reliable. Even when I have no internet connection, I can use C3.

I hope at the end of this year to go back home to Botswana. When I am here in Europe, I am too busy and have too much work. However, at the end of the year, when everything goes according to plan, I will write my own adventure game which I dreamed of doing since my C2 license.

It is more important to be persistent in the goals you pursue than worrying about the tool you use to accomplish that goal. There is also a complete offline version of C3, which is installed as an exe on your local hard disk. You only need to login once a week. I am sure whatever happens, Scirra will make sure at least you can remain using that.

Last week I received an email from Scirra about the end of life for C2. Still, there are people using it and it is still on this laptop too. We can regret this but we have to move forward. C2 was nice but C3 is nicer.

Chris

For the fourth time in a row, since the release of C3, I will renew my C3 license. I do not see any reason to cancel my subscription.

I am not concerned about the future of Scirra. C3 is also moving towards the educational markets which in my opinion, is a very good move.

I trust if Scirra decides to end development on C3, they will inform us and give us time enough to find another solution. However, I do not see any reason for concern now.

Instead of feeding such concerns, just feed your creativity and create nice interesting games with C3. That is your best guarantee for a bright game development future.

Be creative!

Chris

Hello Dop2000,

Thank you so much for your advice, which is much appreciated. Exactly what I need, just to go from box to box onto the board.

It seems Scirra filled the gap Rex Rainbow left.

Wish you all the best.

Chris

Hi all,

Can you help me find a tutorial for Construct 3 how to create a board game. I found some tutorials but they are C2 based and use the RexRainbow MoveTo plugins.

I cannot find what I need here on the forum.

Thank you so much for your help.

Chris

Hello Ashley,

Thank you so much for your reply which is very usefull.

What I did, was just uploading all the images I needed to a directory on Google Drive from my browser. Then I saved the C3 project also to Google Drive.

However, I was misunderstanding the whole Cloud principle. I was trying within the project, to create a sprite and then importing an image on Google Drive. I could not find the particular image on Google Drive.

Now I will import the image from my local disc into the project. then I save my project to Google Drive and my problem is solved.

I do appreciate your support.

Chris

Hi again,

I ran in another problem connected with Google Drive. I have the images and resources directory fully copied to Google Drive.

Now I create a new sprite and want to use an image stored on Google Drive. However, I cannot access any of the images on Google Drive.

Can you tell me how I can use my images stored on Google Drive with objects in my Construct 3 also stored on Google Drive.

Thank you again.

Chris

Hi all,

Please, can you explain how I can use my Construct 3 project saved in the cloud with the images and sounds which are on my local disk? I like to work on several remote locations on this project. However, the images and sounds are not present on those remote computers. I just start the C3 browser, log in to my account and then open the file stored in Google Drive.

Now I uploaded all the images and sounds onto a separate directory on Google Drive. When I create a sprite (for example) I will use an image which is stored on that directory on Google Drive.

Now I can work on whatever place on this planet where I have the internet on my project without losing the links to the image.

Is this correct? Am I right in my assumptions? Is this the correct way to use Construct 3.

Thank you for your input which is appreciated.

Chris