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  • 15 Apr, 2013
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  I would discourage you from using flow charts heavily, other than as a learning tool. My opinion of 2D based programming systems (compared to events, which just list downwards) is that they are really inefficient with space, and you quickly end up with a unwieldy spaghetti which hurts more than it helps. It's harder to learn how to hold it all in your head, but much much better once you've done so.

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  • 15 Apr, 2013
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  Last I tried the turret defense template it ran very well in both an Android browser (SGS3 with Chrome) and iPad 2. What device are you testing on?

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  Yep - sprites are loaded all at once. Either all their animations are in memory, or none of them are.

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  • 14 Apr, 2013
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  You can't realistically host games on Dropbox or Google Drive for broad distribution anyway, because they have fairly low bandwidth limits (they're intended for personal use). Just look for a cheap website host, there are loads and the prices are pretty low.

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  • 14 Apr, 2013
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  See How to upload your game to Dropbox, but instead of sharing the link, just browse to it on the iPod.

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  1. It would be better to set the player to global, so there's only one player object for all layouts. All objects of the same type have the same behaviors and instance variables, but the particular values of each property can differ between instances.

  2. You don't need to copy the objects to every layout. Object types are available in all layouts, even if a layout doesn't have any instances on it. So you might just want to create the objects in events or something like that.

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  • 14 Apr, 2013
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  To pause the game set the timescale to 0. More in this tutorial.

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  Are you hosting on Dropbox? They're having hosting problems at the moment. Try a different host like Google Drive.

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  • 14 Apr, 2013
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  The 'text' plugin is built in. If it's really a third party plugin, it probably will be easier to find the plugin than to edit it out of the project by hand.

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  • 14 Apr, 2013
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  Have you tried the turret defense template that comes with C2?

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  • 14 Apr, 2013
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  It's documented that CocoonJS does not support form controls.

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  • 14 Apr, 2013
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  cesarzevil - did you read the performance tips guide?

  Mobile devices have much weaker GPUs than PCs. You have to design your game very carefully. Some mobiles can only draw to every pixel three times per frame to still get 60 FPS. If you have six large objects, you've already doubled that, which explains 30 FPS. Professional games are never designed so inefficiently - you have to be really careful.

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  • 14 Apr, 2013
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  WebStorage stores data locally.

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  • 14 Apr, 2013
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  I think just making the player object slightly smaller than the tile size is the easiest way to go. If it's that or re-invent an entire engine, I'd just go with the smaller player.

  You could also try making the collision box just a little shorter (only drag down the top two collision points a little). That should let you run in to tunnels only 1 cell high, but won't let you jump down pits 1 cell wide.

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  • 14 Apr, 2013
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  That's not a bug, it's by design! If you delete it, it's gone. If you drag in a new object, it gets default properties. Solution: don't delete it!