Ever since Scirra officially started in 2011, we've been all about game creation. Now we're taking a big step and for the first time ever we're announcing a new...
I love bringing Construct's approach to development beyond coding — hopefully you'll help as many people get into animation as you have with coding. It's a great idea, assuming C3 is
But I agree here, you'll have to be careful about feature-locking. The purpose of Construct vs Animate is distinct, but it'll be easy to have the perception that Animate-only features are being gated off behind a purchase.
It's a fine line separated by purpose; Photoshop doesn't make you buy Illustrator to use vectors. But Illustrator's purpose is vector editing, so it does uniquely feature mesh gradients.
That aside, good luck! I hope this adds many more animators to the planet!