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Competition Winners
As many of you know, we recently ran for the first time an official competition . The theme was 'Space'. One thing to note is that... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 30 Oct, 2011
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Roadmap for the Winter
We've been hard at work for the past few months, so I thought I'd take a moment to reflect on what we've done, and what our plans... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 1 Nov, 2011
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HTML5 gaming: the future is now
Today, there were two surprise news stories: Adobe ceasing development of Flash for mobile in favour of HTML5 , and that it was li... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 9 Nov, 2011
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Our DRM/Anti-Piracy Strategy
One of the funniest pictures I’ve seen on Reddit was this one which pretty accurately describes the whole piracy/DRM state of affa... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 14 Nov, 2011
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HTML5 2D gaming performance analysis
Update March 2012: Read our updated benchmarks here. Yesterday we released our new beta WebGL renderer in r68 . The release notes... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 18 Nov, 2011
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Construct 2 vs GameMaker vs GameSalad vs Stencyl
In our last blog post we analysed Construct 2's HTML5 performance. As a follow up, we've adapted the test to run in some different... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 21 Nov, 2011
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Introducing the Scirra HTML5 arcade
We're pleased to release our online arcade for all your Construct 2 games! You can visit the arcade by clicking 'Arcade' on the to... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 23 Nov, 2011
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Reducing Website Spam
User WGfunStorm recently asked on our forum how we keep the forum spam free without using a CAPTCHA. I've taken a bit of time with... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 1 Dec, 2011
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Removing Mentions/Discussion on Competitors
When running an online start up or business where you have facilities such as discussion forums or a comment system you might be t... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 5 Dec, 2011
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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