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How we gamified our website
You may have noticed on our website that we recently added a couple of key features that are designed to encourage good content an... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 14 Dec, 2011
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Why you shouldn't use MP3 in your HTML5 games
We are sometimes asked how to make an MP3 play in a game made with Construct 2 or how to import MP3s into Construct 2 itself. We d... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 16 Dec, 2011
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Even more about audio licenses on the web
This is now our fourth blog post about audio on the web ( one , two , three ). We may be risking beating a dead horse, but we do n... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 21 Dec, 2011
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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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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 30 Apr, 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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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 14 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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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 23 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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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 28 May, 2012
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Early Adopter Period to End Soon
The early adopter period where you can buy a Construct 2 license for as little as $32 is going to be ending in 2 weeks. That means... Read more
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published on 5 Jan, 2012
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Rotary Competition - Win some flying prizes!
As promised, we’re launching a new official competition today! The theme of the competition is “ Rotation ”. Construct 2 allows yo... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 7 Jan, 2012
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Graphics card drivers: a lesson in software engineering
Construct 2 uses a hardware-accelerated Layout View while editing your project. This helps guarantee a snappy, responsive UI even... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 23 Jan, 2012
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On The Receiving End of Link Building Campaigns
We’ve blogged before about ways to reduce website spam: However the inevitable was going to happen at some stage or another. Like... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 30 Jan, 2012