Does everything have to load at the start?

I want to make a game with lots of unique art assets with cutscene panels and other such things.

If I want to go from gameplay, to cutscene "panels" should this be a new layout or should it be part of an existing layout?

Do layouts load new assets as they appear, or are they more akin to a quick "cut" to whatever is already in memory.

How can I use layouts to go from cutscenes, which are detailed panels with text, to gameplay and vice versa.

Can I have custom loading screens mid game, or must all HTML 5 games load assets at the start?

nobody know what Im talking about sorry if noobish question.

At the moment C2 loads all the assets at the start of the game.

You can do a single custom loading screen.

Once everything in memory, there shouldn't be issue switching from a layout to another, from a cutscene to gameplay.

You can use several layouts, or you may stack everything in layers, whatever feels best to you making/playing it.

Wouldn't that limit the number of assets we can use in a game? Most games have loading screens between levels so that there is virtually no limit to the games asset variety...

I'm a bit worried about this too. Will this change in the future? Can it change, C2 being html5 and web/mobile-oriented and all?

Ashley said layout-by-layout loading is in the todo list

Ashley said layout-by-layout loading is in the todo list

THAT is very good to know.

awesome!