Hi Kios,

You made very good suggestions. Did you suggest them also to Scirra? If not, you should share your suggestions soon with them.

I do not know if the Scirra team will do something with the suggestions here. They have another dedicated channel (I think Github) to make feature requests and suggestions.

Keep up the good work!

I just searched the manual and come across the following page :

"https://www.construct.net/bw/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/local-storage"

I do not know if this link will remain because this account does not have enough points I am afraid (my regular account has but I do not longer use it because it breaks forum rule having 2 accounts).

However when the link is removed search for "Local Storage" or localstorage in the user manual. This will give you all information. Or go to "Plugin reference" and in the list search for Local Storage.

Hope this helps.

Chris

I my answer to you will be incorrect. However I thought you can save your userdate to a localstorage. I am sure you can save it as a cookie with your browser, however when your player empty the cookie cache, your game data will also be lost.

Why not saving your data to the cloud and also as a browser cookie? In case the cache is being emptied, then your player can restore from the cloud? This will also help in cases when the player has no internet.

There is some tutorial somewhere about saving user data in C3, however I can't find it.

Hope this helps.

Chris

I do appreciate C3 over C2. I do not have much time for game development because I can only do it in my very limited free time.

Nevertheless login on any computer let me use C3. Wherever I have time, I can use C3 as long as the computer has an internet connection.

A few weeks ago I showed C3 to two young men in Botswana. Both where unemployed and desperatelly looking for a job. One is a graphic designer, the other a sound engineer. Despite the very poor internet, I could show them C3. As an example demo I created a simple breakout game from one of the C2 books I own. Once they grasped the way C3 works, they saw a lot of possibilities.

We discussed if it would be possible to create interactive ebooks with C3. Or a kind of living books.

I should spend more time with C3 and learn the tool inside out. We can do more with it than we think. It would not surprise me that in a few years from now, we can use C3 for more than gaming alone. I believe it will be possible to create sofisticated demos to make processes more clear or teach in an interactive way how something is done.

I strongly believe in the future of C3. There is much to say about the subscription model. You can agree or disagree with me, however that subscription model secure the future of C3. A lifetime license is very nice for the enduser, however for the developer resources drain out fast.

Now for C3, its future is wide open and the sun shines bright on it. Lets be creative and make our ideas come true! Keep up the good work, Scirra team!

Chris

Thank you very much for your long and interesting reply.

The book title is "Learning Construct 2" written by Aryadi Subagio and is now already many years old.

I find it an interesting book which I read regularly. It is published by Packt. The author is very positive about Construct. Maybe at that time, it was more difficult building simulation games with Construct.

Anyway I do not use any other engine than Construct. My game experience level is very small because I have to do that in my spare free time. I really wish I could have more free time to build games with Construct.

Chris

Thank you mumu64 for your reply and insights. I also thing that the author of the book was a little short with his opinion about C2 (despite he wrote an excellent book about Construct 2).

I only make small games for our young daughter. So my experience is very limited. Your idea to use an array to keep track of the layout (rail, switches, signals and trains) is the way to go. The game has to keep track which section of a track is occupied or not, or how fast a train is going.

I should think of creating a "class" which I sub-class for every section of track in the game. However, this is not possible I think in Construct 3.

But when my thinking is correct, "families" do just that. Objects in families, do share the same events and behaviours. I am gonna find out what objects share the same events and hehaviour and how I can divide them in families.

I will keep you informed here.

Thank you again and have a great day.

Chris

Hi all,

I like to make a small railroad simulation game with Construct 3. I have the book "Learning Construct 2" which mention that simulation games are very difficult to make in C2.

What I need in that small simulation game is a timetable of scheduled trains. then a random ocurancies of problems which can happen, a defective train, a slow freight train, track maintenance, improvements and so on. Also the traffic on those tracks has to be increased or decreased depending on the hour, day.

The user control the switches and the signals. When there is a train crash, the game ends.

Can this be done in Construct 3? Can Construct 3 make simulation games?

Thank you very much in advance.

Chris

It is even worse because the former post is my first post. That is what the forum tells me.

However, I made much more posts. Also my reputation post is also much more than 127!!!!

Can somebody look into this error please?

Thank you.

Hi All,

I just changed my profile and came to the conclusion that afterwards, I lost a lot of rep points again.

I thought I experienced this in the past again. Also the join date should be in May 2014 but it is now May or June 2017.

I have the impression that something is wrong with the forum.