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Announcing Construct 2 support for Wii U
Scirra are proud to officially announce upcoming support for Nintendo’s Wii U™ system. Nintendo-authorised developers will be able... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 20 Jan, 2014
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January Sale!
Sorry, this sale has now finished! This week we're running a January sale which gives you 33% off Construct 2 Personal Edition Lic... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 13 Jan, 2014
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nVidia hobbles WebGL performance on laptops
On dual-GPU laptops, nVidia appears to be deliberately disabling use of the faster GPU in browsers. This means on their systems mo... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 30 Dec, 2013
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Introducing Crosswalk: the new way to publish to Android
Chrome for Android is one of the best mobile browsers available: It has great performance, a full feature-set and great gaming tec... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 19 Dec, 2013
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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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More about asm.js powered physics
The latest beta r153 has a new option to allow you to select a new physics engine powered by asm.Js . On Chrome and Firefox it's 2... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 6 Dec, 2013
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Construct 2 now supports tilemaps
One of the top feature requests we've kept hearing from users is for better support for tilemap-based games. As ever, we listen ca... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 28 Nov, 2013
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New features in Chrome and Firefox for Android
HTML5 games on mobile is particularly important for many developers - and historically a little problematic. Fortunately on Androi... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 19 Nov, 2013
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Ideas for Construct 2's future
Occasionally we're asked what our roadmap for the future is. The reason we don't publish one regularly is often our plans change i... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 13 Nov, 2013
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Tech blog: Tilemap tidbits
In the latest beta update r149 of Construct 2 we've shipped a new official Tilemap plugin, with tilemap editor features and the ab... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 5 Nov, 2013
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The never ending issue of dual-encoding
I've ranted a fair deal about the problem of audio codecs in HTML5 already. Here's some older Scirra blog posts on the subject - n... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 30 Oct, 2013