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Design UIs with HTML and CSS in Construct
HTML is great for designing user interfaces: It's powerful, flexible, and easy to develop with. And we'd know - we built all of Co... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 6 May, 2022
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Launching Construct Animate
Last year we announced the beta version of Construct Animate. We're now delighted to launch Construct Animate out of beta! You can... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 6 Mar, 2023
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Introducing the new Construct 3 debugger
Construct's debugger is an essential tool for testing your game and diagnosing anything that's not working like you expected. It h... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 3 Sep, 2018
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The surprising difficulty of resizing images on spritesheets
Spritesheets (aka texture atlases) are a common technique in computer graphics to combine multiple images on to a single image. Ho... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 6 Jun, 2020
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Onto the next challenge...
Happy Friday y'all. Thought I’d better check in seeing as I've not written a blog post for a few weeks. Combination of days off an... Read more
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 30 Oct, 2020
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Ready for Global Game Jam 2020? We are!
For those of you who haven’t come across the Global Game Jam before, it’s a huge, annual, in-person jam that takes place all over... Read more
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 24 Jan, 2020
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Construct 3 Free for Ludum Dare 46
Ludum Dare is a worldwide game jam where games are made from scratch in a weekend. This weekend ( April 17th-20th 2020 ) is Ludum... Read more
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 14 Apr, 2020
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Export smaller projects with WebP images
Construct now supports using the WebP image format when exporting your projects. It can reduce the file size of images by 20-30% w... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 5 Sep, 2022
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Developer Diaries: Darya Noghani
Welcome to another edition of Developer Diaries. This week we spoke to Darya Noghani, the brains behind the upcoming game Small Sa... Read more
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 1 Nov, 2023
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Developer Diaries: Mike Sole
Welcome to another edition of Developer Diaries! This week we spoke with Mike Sole, the lead developer on Nuke Them All, an upcomi... Read more
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Laura_D Construct Team Community Manager
published on 14 Feb, 2024
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Reducing download sizes with lossy spritesheets
What if you could reduce the download size of your game by as much as 80% with minimal reduction to image quality? This kind of im... Read more
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Ashley Construct Team Founder
published on 2 Sep, 2024