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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  If you want to check if an object is sprite, use:

  inst instanceof cr.plugins_.Sprite.Instance

  To prevent that line crashing in projects that don't use the Sprite object, first check cr.plugins_.Sprite is not undefined.

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  It works for everyone else. I'm afraid it sounds like you made a mistake in Dropbox, rather than this being a bug in Construct 2.

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  Why not just right-click, send to zip in Windows?

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  We use Innosetup for Construct 2, and it's free and works well.

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  If you save data in the WebStorage object whenever the user saves their game, you can check what save games are available later with WebStorage.

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  Make sure you uploaded all the files!

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  I don't want to reinvent the wheel. Good IRC clients already exist!

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  Desktop computers can literally be 10 to 100 times faster than a mobile device. You might have a 1000 core graphics card drawing 500W from the wall, whereas a phone would be lucky to have 8 core graphics and using just a few watts from a battery. So if you mean you find a game that runs fine on desktop Firefox is slow on a phone, again that's no surprise and you'll have the same problem with any technology or framework.

  It's hard to help much more if you don't share your .capx projects you've used to test.

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  It should do, just make a quick test and see if it works. It was just specifically that if you inverted the condition, that condition itself would never be true.

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  Yeah, the video is exclusively a test of physics performance, rather than the general aspects of the tool. Admittedly the performance of a physics engine in Javascript is a weak point. FWIW, we've been experimenting with using the native physics engine integrated in to CocoonJS, which could speed it up a great deal on there. They used that on the video so it would help their test, but browsers would still be slow.

  I've actually experimented a little with using an asm.js build of Box2D. On Firefox it's way faster - literally 2-4x faster. However the asm.js code was slower on Internet Explorer and a few mobile devices I tried, presumably because they don't actually support asm.js so the overhead increases even more. If lots of mobile devices supported asm.js, I'm sure we could even make physics in the browser really fast.

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  How exactly are you trying your game? Safari for iOS should be fast, PhoneGap and the Android browsers are known to be very slow, but CocoonJS also fixes that and should be very fast. Have you tried using CocoonJS? Can you share a .capx of your games that are slow? It may be possible to fix them. A common mistake is to give the device far too much work to do. For example five full-screen sized images would probably exceed the fill rate of the mobile GPU. Any experienced app developer using any technology at all knows not to do that. Mobile hardware is limited and you have to design your game very carefully according to the capabilities of the device. If you just throw seven huge sprites in to a game, that's not how anyone designs their games for mobile.

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  Oops, you're right, source code typo. Fixed for next build.

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  I don't think it's needed in the runtime so it's not stored anywhere. Why do you need it?

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  Kuanish - that's not the same problem as in this thread. Make sure your server supports UTF-8.

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  • 25 Apr, 2013
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  Thanks, good find, should be fixed in the next build.