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  Also why not just make a mobile or tablet that can plug in to a TV, with wireless controllers?

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  Problem #2: if the inactive tab is paused and the game is unable to run normally (it's forced to pause or to skip steps) it may result in a corrupt result which - in case of a duel with cash at stake - might seriously affect the contest holder's reputation

  What do you mean by "corrupt result"? It's a useful feature to pause games in inactive tabs to help save CPU and battery on laptops and mobile devices. The game properly resumes from its previous state without any problems, unless there are bugs I'm unaware of. If you want to run a cash competition and you really think that's a deal breaker, I'm happy to say Construct 2 is not the best tool for that job.

  If you can reproduce the IE problem, let me know.

  Large skill gaming websites, such as king.com, are still using Flash for their new games, and they probably do it for a good reason.

  Maybe it's because they're too slow to get with the times! :)

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  Aren't there third party plugins available for this? Is there a reason you don't want to use them?

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  They've pledged to give away about 6000 consoles at the $95 price point, including a wireless controller. That's pretty ambitious!

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  This is a known bug - parallaxing isn't taken in to account when testing overlaps. Hopefully it will be fixed in the near future...

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  zsangerous - so why not scale the orange box with the same scale applied to the green box? Or just scale the whole layer?

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  kiyoshi - both CocoonJS and directCanvas use hardware-accelerated OpenGL on iOS and Android. So I would expect them to be about as fast as Stage3D. WebGL is also sure to come to mobile eventually, and will be equally as fast as Stage3D as well. So I'm not sure it's really an advantage in favour of AIR.

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  Follow it's spawn action with a 'set position' action, or just use the system 'create object' action which allows you to enter an X and Y position to create at.

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  Ah, it looks like a bug in the Facebook plugin. I'll see if I can get that fixed for the next build. As a workaround in the mean time, it looks like you're requesting hi-scores on startup before the user is even logged in, and the request fails which causes the error. You should be able to avoid the problem by not requesting hi-scores until the user has finished logging in.

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  zsangerous - that looks like a different problem - instead of zooming a single sprite, you want to adjust the viewport to fit an object. The best way to do that is set the window size to the size of the object and enable one of the scaling fullscreen-in-browser options.

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  It's supported!

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  kiyoshi - I actually trialled Adobe AIR a few months ago. They didn't have a GPU accelerated canvas, so the performance was terrible. HTML5 is way, way faster (unless they've changed something since I tried it). So HTML5 is a clear winner as far as I'm concerned. Anything missing GPU acceleration is not much good for games at all!

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  I don't think we can consider this a bug until you reproduce it outside of a VM - it could be that VMWare has buggy GPU virtualization, in which case the problem should be reported to them.

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  nothing1969 - using a fullscreen scale mode also scales text appropriately.

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  If you check for browser errors you'll see an error come up something like "Cannot call method 'sort' of undefined". This could be a bug in C2, but it is usually more likely caused by third party plugins which don't support the minifier.

  Are you using any third party plugins or behaviors? Does it work if you disable minify?