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Construct in 2021: year in review
As we approach the end of another year, it's a good time to look back and review the year gone by. We got a lot done in 2021 and w... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 20 Dec, 2021
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More efficient and more advanced effects with sub-layers
There's lots new in our latest r276 stable release, but today we want to highlight one new feature: Sub-layers! At first blush sub... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 15 Dec, 2021
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Explore new 3D features with Construct's 3D Camera
It's been out a few weeks now but we wanted to highlight Construct's new 3D camera plugin, introduced in r268 . It opens up lots o... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 10 Nov, 2021
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Developer Diaries: Moonstone Island
Welcome to another edition of Developer Diaries! This week we spoke to two of the team members behind the upcoming deck-building R... Read more
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  • ~5-9 mins read time
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 27 Oct, 2021
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Porting WebGL shaders to WebGPU
This is a technical post where I'm going to dive in to the nitty-gritty of the shader languages used by WebGL and WebGPU. WebGL us... Read more
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  • ~10-16 mins read time
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 26 Oct, 2021
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Developer Diaries: Tom-Ivar Arntzen
Welcome to another edition of Developer Diaries. This week, we're chatting to Tom-Ivar Arntzen, the developer behind the fantastic... Read more
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 20 Oct, 2021
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Ludum Dare is here once again, and so is a free period for Construct 3!
Ludum Dare is a worldwide game jam where games are made from scratch in a weekend and Ludum Dare 49 will be running from the 1st t... Read more
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 27 Sep, 2021
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Developer Diaries: Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Welcome to another edition of Developer Diaries! This week, we spoke to Thomas Lean and Rob Thomas who are currently working on Sh... Read more
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 22 Sep, 2021
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How JavaScript beats GameMaker Language (GML)
Construct supports Javascript coding in addition to its block-based approach. Javascript is an industry-standard language used wid... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 1 Sep, 2021
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Let's talk about the Scene Graph!
One of the big features we've added recently to Construct 3 is the Scene Graph or Hierarchies feature. You can do all sorts with t... Read more
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 11 Aug, 2021
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Have you heard about Meshes?
Back in October last year, a paragraph in the release notes of Construct 3 r219 caught a few people by surprise. Mesh distortion i... Read more
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 30 Jun, 2021