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The Difficulties of Self Publicising
For startups like us and indie game developers alike, self publicising is one of the more difficult aspects of operating but often... Read more
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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 21 Sep, 2012
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WebGL shader effects in Construct 2
Construct 2 recently introduced WebGL shader effects in the beta releases, allowing for impressive native-grade visual effects. Be... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 30 Aug, 2012
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Release 100 is coming 22nd August
Update 22nd August 2012: Release 100 is now available! Almost a year ago on 22nd August 2011 we announced Construct 2 r51, which i... Read more
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published on 14 Aug, 2012
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Favourite Features Competition Results
Just over a month ago we launched our favourite features competition where you had to make YouTube videos showing off your favouri... Read more
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published on 22 Jul, 2012
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Interview with Ben Chong
Founder of marketJS
One common criticism we receive with Construct 2 is that " you can't make money with HTML5 ". Granted that options for monetisatio... Read more
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published on 17 Jul, 2012
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Releasing early & often -
100 releases of Construct 2
Yesterday we released r99 beta of Construct 2 . Since we'll soon be releasing our 100th version of Construct 2 , let's take a mome... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 13 Jul, 2012
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The New Scirra Store
We're very pleased to announce an exciting addition to the Scirra website, the brand new Scirra Store ! We've simplified the proce... Read more
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published on 9 Jul, 2012
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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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Ashley Construct Team Founder
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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Tom Construct Team Founder
published on 28 May, 2012