Game Development Blog Posts

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Feature Focus: Audio effects
Feature Focus is a series of blog posts and videos where we occasionally highlight some of the best features of Construct. This ti... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 16 Feb, 2023
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RTS devlog #9: Extreme pathfinding
It's been a few weeks since the last devlog . However I've spent a fair bit of time working on pathfinding and path following - an... Read more
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  • ~12-19 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 18 Jan, 2023
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RTS devlog #8: How to beat lag
It's time to deal with the bane of online multiplayer games: Lag . Previously Command & Construct just displayed raw network updat... Read more
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  • ~12-20 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 23 Dec, 2022
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Construct in 2022: year in review
Once again we're reaching the end of a busy year where the team worked hard and got a great deal done, aiming to bring you the bes... Read more
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  • ~8-13 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 15 Dec, 2022
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RTS round-up: improving Construct through game development
In September I started part-time development of a real-time strategy (RTS) game in Construct using Javascript coding. I've been po... Read more
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  • ~8-13 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 7 Dec, 2022
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RTS devlog #7: optimizing performance for 1000 units
In the previous devlog I focused on getting intense multiplayer combat with 1000 units to use just 50kb/s bandwidth. Now it's time... Read more
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  • ~8-14 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 30 Nov, 2022
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RTS devlog #6: 1000 units bandwidth
After the last devlog I had the basic controls for scrolling and zooming a larger level. Mostly for a laugh, I threw in 1000 units... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 16 Nov, 2022
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RTS devlog #5: input and gestures
In the week or so since the last devlog I've mostly been working on mouse and touch input, as you can see from the commit history... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 7 Nov, 2022
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RTS devlog #4: Collision detection and combat
Since the last devlog I've been working to get to a minimally playable game. Units now have turrets, they can fire at each other,... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 27 Oct, 2022
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RTS devlog #3: Minimal multiplayer milestone
You can now play a minimally multiplayer version of the RTS live online at CommandAndConstruct.Com ! It's an unoptimized export ru... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 10 Oct, 2022
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RTS update #2: Classes
Since the last blog I've added some very basic interactivity. You can click to select units, and click somewhere else to move the... Read more
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  • ~6-10 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 3 Oct, 2022