Construct 3 any news?

And if you take into account that NWjs doesn't have WinXP support and Native does, things should be even again.

Just jumping in to say that, at least back in the nwjs 13.0 days, you could get nwjs builds to run on XP by dropping dbghelp.dll from the official nwjs package into the build folder. Don't know if that'll still work, I don't have a machine with XP installed around to test, but worth a try?

...The key point is as a small company, we don't have the resources to maintain all those libraries ourselves ...

Alright thanks for sharing your view on native engines and their possible risks (again). I think the sentence on top pretty much sums it up. Don't get me wrong I understood that going native also means dealing with buggy 3rd parties, drivers etc. but you could find problems like that on both ends.

I guess in the end it all comes down to the things we've experienced, I personally didn't experience that many issues while developing software with a native base. I guess you've got some pretty bad experiences with C1, that make you think the way you think about native engines right now.

All that's left for me to say is, if you decide to go on with a web based engine please maintain the base plugins.

Currently you're investing all of your time into C3's development and I get that's why you might not be able to deliver the support we expect to get.

However once C3 is out I'm hoping that you're going to get back to those broken/unfinished plugins and provide the support that the users of those plugins need.

I don't feel the need to give you examples on this regard but you should know best which ones currently really need some attention.

Just jumping in to say that, at least back in the nwjs 13.0 days, you could get nwjs builds to run on XP by dropping dbghelp.dll from the official nwjs package into the build folder. Don't know if that'll still work, I don't have a machine with XP installed around to test, but worth a try?

Even though I have done some "hacky" workarounds in the past with certain types of software, I don't really want to do that with NWjs.

You never know what else you could break by doing a workaround like that and if I would do that, I'd be the one held responsible for the bugs that might appear because of it.

Needless to say, it's good to know that it is possible to do that. However while issues with drivers will get fixed eventually, WinXP (in private use) will completely die out one day.

Well, I could change the comparison: most Unity devs write in C#, a garbage collected managed language. C++ may well be faster, closer to the metal, and smoother since there is no GC. Generally though, the difference doesn't matter, the higher-level managed language is good enough and the increased productivity is more important.

Except it does make a difference, people switch from Unity (C#) to Unreal Engine 4 (C++) to take advantage of that speed boost too.

But the difference between good C# and C++ is admittedly less than the difference between JavaScript and C#

Ashley How will works the "Construct 3 editor plugin" ? Is the most interesting thing for me, but i not understand very well how will be.

This means will be an event editor like for the event sheets on you can create behaviours/plugins with their param properties,etc... to be used in our projects? Or that will be a specific editor to program plugins based on javascript or whatever (hard coding)?

Ashley have there been any developments worth writing a blog post about?

Yoyo games have released their new game maker, and clickteam has started rolling out demo videos and screenshots of theirs- with a dev blog.

http://www.clickteam.com/fusion-3-development-blog

Will construct3 show up any time this year at all? <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy">

If construct 2 looks like fusion3... *.*

In honor of the truth

Construct (1) was inspired by Multimedia Fusion

And now Fusion 3 is inspired by Construct 2

In honor of the truth

Construct (1) was inspired by Multimedia Fusion

And now Fusion 3 is inspired by Construct 2

Clearly it looks like it!

Anyway, I think I'm as impatient as you guyz are, but we should simply wait and trust Scirra for making a great improved tool with the time they need.

The good news about this is that game maker and fusion released too early. Now SCIRRA has the advantage to do better improvements to C3.

We don't need native but will we at least get exporters so we don't have to rely on external exporters?

And now Fusion 3 is inspired by Construct 2

If it wasn't as frustrating as the old Fusions (in case of per-frame events), I may getting this once it released...

In the other words, GMS2 seems promising for me, just entered the beta and downloaded the beta, hope this was better than the old GameMakers.

We don't need native but will we at least get exporters so we don't have to rely on external exporters?

Yes, we should. We have VS2015's Cordova tools, but they're just crappy most of the times...

The good news about this is that game maker and fusion released too early. Now SCIRRA has the advantage to do better improvements to C3.

You can't tell me that Scirra needed to wait GMS2 and Fusion 3 to appear in order to inspire from

Good news for who ? GMS2 might had released to early, but the users can try now the beta and get used to it. From here on it will only get better.

For me, the news (blog and videos) about Fusion 3 made me sure that moving to it is the good direction to go. The current version already exports native and simply works, no need for 3rd party software. But I agree that C2's workflow is superior

I know that plans change, but at the moment we don't even know (officially) if C3 will still be HTML5-only or not.

> The good news about this is that game maker and fusion released too early. Now SCIRRA has the advantage to do better improvements to C3.

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You can't tell me that Scirra needed to wait GMS2 and Fusion 3 to appear in order to inspire from

Good news for who ? GMS2 might had released to early, but the users can try now the beta and get used to it. From here on it will only get better.

Well, it was supposed to be a good news for us. You are already used to C2 right? I'm sure you and the others will upgrade to C3 because you're used to it. And besides at the moment C3 releases, i'm sure topics like this will also be present in YoYo Games' Forums.

For me, the news (blog and videos) about Fusion 3 made me sure that moving to it is the good direction to go. The current version already exports native and simply works, no need for 3rd party software. But I agree that C2's workflow is superior

I know that plans change, but at the moment we don't even know (officially) if C3 will still be HTML5-only or not.

We officially know that C3 will still be HTML5 only! Ashley said that hundreds of times. Which is actually a little bit disappointing.

I know that plans change, but at the moment we don't even know (officially) if C3 will still be HTML5-only or not.

yes we do lol, and we do know that from the fact that Ashley is a fully pledge html5 adopter and supporter. i dont think he will change his mind very soon. even if its an entire new product. why this topic still in debate?