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  Closing, please contact us at licensehelpqnk@scirra.com to resolve this issue.

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  Javascript provides no mechanism by which a garbage collection can be forced. The obvious thing to do seems to be: just don't preload anything apart from the handful of most latency-sensitive sound effects. In particular, you should not preload any music at all.

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  You should URLEncode any data you post, regardless of the format of the data. So you should still URLEncode your JSON.

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  You shouldn't need to export regularly - you should be able to test through preview-over-wifi and then just export on rare occasions when you want to publish. How come you're exporting so much that this bothers you?

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  jayderyu is right, an "exporter" is basically a slightly different HTML template and a few tweaks to the normal export process. There would be absolutely no benefit to omitting every single exporter apart from one - Construct 2 wouldn't be any faster or quicker or anything, it would be exactly the same.

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  We'd love to drop the canvas2D renderer, but I really doubt we'd be able to for the foreseeable future. Old desktop machines with crappy drivers still get canvas2D, and although the percentage will be decreasing over time, it will probably be a couple of years before it's a non-issue. And then IE9 and IE10 would still need to die, which takes excruciatingly long with IE's release cycle.

  I'll take another look sometime, maybe I can get it working anyway.

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  How do spritefonts work for unicode text?

  My main issue is if we only support the typical 256-character ASCII set, we're effectively cutting out lots of non-european languages like Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc. So far AFAIK all the official plugins and features in the whole of Construct 2 work equally well for all users due to the unicode support throughout. I would hesitate to add a conspicuously ASCII-only feature, especially if it would take lots of work to implement. I prefer web fonts because they don't have this problem and can work with the full range of unicode characters (providing the font supports it, but at least it's possible).

  What do Japanese games do with regards to spritefonts? I have no idea, but I would guess they just pre-render text to images, since spritefonts don't work for that language.

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  There is no need to adapt the pathfinding behavior to work in isometric. An isometric game is still a grid based game, just displayed differently.

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  Looks like it's designed for apps and not games.

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  InvaderX: see How to make savegames, under 'Using the JSON data directly'. It's the SaveStateJSON expression.

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  Google Drive is asking me to request permission to access the files. That should not be necessary, please just make them public.

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  So pre-load them in to an array, save the array as JSON, then load the JSON in to array on startup. That should be really fast.

  Edit: text objects (along with everything else) are already automatically scaled depending on the 'fullscreen in browser' project property.

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  See performance tips. Usually poor performance is caused by rendering, and not events or behaviors.

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  Do you mean the boilerplate code to handle images? Wouldn't you still need that regardless of where textures were stored?

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  Closing, please attach a .capx if you want us to investigate this problem. There is no intentionally hard-coded event limit in Construct 2.