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Opus audio in Construct 3
Audio codec support has been a thorn in our side for years. It was a problem when we first got going in 2011, and six years later,... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 6 Sep, 2017
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Collision cell optimisation in r155
The latest beta update r155 introduces a major new performance optimisation: Collision cells. These can provide a huge performance... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 19 Dec, 2013
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You can ignore power-of-two image sizes now
WebGL brings native-grade rendering to the web which Construct 2 games have long taken advantage of, but it always had two minor a... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 17 Nov, 2016
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Why I made a stack and queue plugin
A few months ago, I created two plugins: Stack and Queue. I published them on the new addon exchange platform published by Scirra... Read more
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skymen Affiliate
published on 16 May, 2018
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Blame in technology, and the aardvark case
When something goes wrong in technology, knowing who to blame is a surprisingly difficult problem. Despite having dealt with thous... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 29 Mar, 2018
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Apple broke WebAssembly and are leaving it broken
The Spectre security vulnerability has left many companies scrambing to mitigate it. Along with other browser vendors, Apple worke... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 29 Jan, 2018
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Launching Construct 3: now out of beta!
Developing Construct 3 has been a long journey. As far back as late 2012 we were experimenting with what could be done with a brow... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 4 Dec, 2017
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Tokyo Dark: from concept to launch with Construct
This is a guest blog post by Jon from Cherrymochi, developers of the game Tokyo Dark. It's posted under Ashley's account but was w... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 31 Oct, 2017
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Make Xbox One games with Construct
Microsoft recently launched the Xbox Live Creators Program , which allows anyone to publish Xbox One games with Xbox Live integrat... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 28 Sep, 2017
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Layout is the next frontier of web app performance
In a real web app like Construct 3 , Javascript performance (and DOM calls) are a solved problem. We've been developing a high-per... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 30 Jun, 2017
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Answer your own performance questions with measurements
Often on the forums people ask questions along the lines of "Which is faster: Option A or option B?". There's no need to ask this... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 7 Feb, 2015