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New Competition - Favourite Features
It's been a while since our last competition so we've decided to launch a new one for you all — The Favourite Features compe... Read more
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published on 18 Jun, 2012
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Why the UK Government wants us to Airmail 1KB Text Files by CD
In the UK we have a tax called VAT ( Value added tax ), which Wikipedia describes as “a tax on the purchase price”. In other words... Read more
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published on 13 Jun, 2012
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Under the hood: Spritesheets in Construct 2
Construct 2 has typically exported object's animation frames as separate PNG files. Spritesheets - a new feature in the latest bet... Read more
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published on 29 May, 2012
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GameMaker has “No Competition” –
We beg to differ! HTML5's scalability
In a recent interview with Sandy Duncan (CEO of YoYo Games, the company behind GameMaker) he stated that “ We have no direct compe... Read more
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published on 28 May, 2012
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The Great HTML5 Mobile Gaming Performance Comparison
Update 11th June 2012: Added score for Playbook OS 2.1. It's literally 3x faster than OS 2.0, so the conclusion for Playbook has c... Read more
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published on 23 May, 2012
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Driver problems? Complain to your graphics card vendor
We've blogged about graphics card drivers before ( here and here ). However it continues to cause us pain. A constant rate of a fe... Read more
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published on 14 May, 2012
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Optimisation: don't waste your time
We regularly get questions like this on the forum: "Which is faster: Event A or event B?". Sometimes they will also be asking if a... Read more
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published on 9 May, 2012
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A new way to learn how to program
We've always intended Construct 2, our HTML5 game creator, to be useful for people who don't know how to program. You can be anyon... Read more
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published on 3 May, 2012
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Avoiding Insanity with an Office
After working from home for nearly a year now we're very happy (and a little relieved) to announce that Scirra now has a new HQ! T... Read more
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published on 30 Apr, 2012
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Why Running a Startup is Like Playing Poker
I used to play a lot of poker (and occasionally still do for fun). Like any game to get good at it you have to study a lot unless... Read more
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published on 24 Apr, 2012