JoeyCan2's Forum Posts

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  • Hey everyone!

    Just published the Alpha 1 prototype for SIN | AI: 2D, my solo project made in Construct 3! This is the first official alpha after the overhaul to pixel art. Still working on the subtitle lol.

    It’s a top-down sci-fi extraction shooter set in the SIN | AI universe. Fight enemies, open crates, and find new guns, items, and gear. Each raid is timed, so grab what you can and get out alive. If you don’t die first. 😆

    What’s in Alpha 1?

    - 1 playable character/class

    - 10+ items to loot

    - Roughly 15 minutes of gameplay

    - Combat, looting, and extraction to try out

    There’s no save system yet. This prototype is about testing the combat and overall idea before building it out further.

    What’s next for Alpha 2?

    More enemy types, a second character/class, new combat abilities, more weapons and loot, and a bigger map to explore. The enemy AI is way better than it was, but I still think I can tighten it up more.

    I also published a launch devlog, and to celebrate the alpha, I’m making a selection of SIN | AI universe 3D models free for the week!

    A quick note on development: I use AI assistance for parts of the art, game sounds, brainstorming, and code troubleshooting. I handle the game design, Construct implementation, integration, and testing. There’s a fuller AI disclosure in the launch devlog.

    🎮 Play Alpha 1: joeycan2.itch.io/sinai

    📝 Devlog https://joeycan2.itch.io/sinai/devlog/1693387/sin-ai-alpha-1

    🎁 Free 3D models:

    https://joeycan2.itch.io/steel-fang-the-cybernetic-hound-3d-model

    https://joeycan2.itch.io/cybernetic-bear-sin-ai

    Would love to hear how the combat feels and whether the enemies put up a decent fight. Bugs and rough edges are expected—it’s Alpha 1—but finding them is part of why I’m sharing it!

  • It's honestly not well made for C3 it doesn't know or understand a lot of the quirks of C3. Your best bet is tinkering, asking questions to people that already know it well and the documentation.

    If you don't know anything though it doesn't hurt to use it as a baseline. But eventually you'll hit a wall with it like signal jacker said here it can be more of a hindrance than a help at times.

  • Oh please make Construct 3 able to handle 3d models with editor!

  • Any active game devs out there using C3 that would enjoy doing game jams or team builds?

  • Looking to make a C3 team for up and coming game jam in 2 days.

    HMU let me know if this is something that sounds interesting and what your skills are.

    I can do coding, animation, and 2d and 3d art.

    Willing to do it on another game platform if you have vet experience in it.

    This the game jam 👇

  • Still looking for teammate? There's an up and coming game jam.

  • AI can def help or teach you various things or help debug certain issues.

    But it's def not the best. There's many times where it couldn't figure out what I was doing and I wasted time where if I would've just researched or tinkered and messed with the events/actions have a more favorable outcome quicker.

  • Here's 10 free music tracks that have a cinematic and various emotional themes from intense rapid paced battle music to and intentional emotional temp feeling slow tracks at the atmospheric tone level.

    👉 https://joeycan2.itch.io/rpg-bgm-vol1

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  • Story:

    I'm working very very proactively on a game.

    I've wanted to make a game for the last 15 years of my life, but I never took the time to fully commit to it.

    I've dabbled around with coding and game engines like RPGMaker, Unity, and Gamemaker. I've even coded some animations and small games on old graphing calculators.

    I'm really enjoying the Construct 3 engine, and I'm going to finally achieve this goal since I'm getting older and don't play video games as much anymore.

    Anyway, I thought I'd share my progress. I'm spending 6 to 8 hours per day, treating it like a full-time job (currently working part-time).

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    Progress:

    I've completed my first week and have put in a total of 38 hours so far.

    I plan on working every day except Sundays for the next 90 days and will assess my progress from there.

    I'm also planning on putting the game on the Android app store once it's polished enough and playable.

    Unfortunately, I won't be sharing any details of my project until it's nearly finished or I have a very playable version to show and have tested.

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  • Example: If you do a action or kill something it floats/stacks a experience number on screen, and if you preform another action in a small period of time the 1st experience number floats away and fades as the 2nd experience number in text shows up? and they just continue to stack on top of each other and fade/float away.

    Does anyone know how to do this or have code for it they could share?

    Would be much appreciated thanks!

    Also I feel like this community, and discord, has helped quite a bit hope in the future I can pay it back.

  • This is for a money/buying system in my game

    I need help with this....

    Problem:

    So I'm having a issue I want to turn a number variable like 10000 to display on set text. 10,000 or every 999 the next number over will add a comma.

    Found a Solution (Sort Of):

    I tried tons of different ways then came across this old forum post.

    construct.net/en/forum/construct-2/how-do-i-18/string-numbers-commas-127611

    Anyway they used Events and Actions like this to create something that sort of works.

    Problem is it adds commas before needed. 999 ends up being ,999

    System: Every tick

    System: For "" from 0 to tokencount(str(PocketCASH), "")%3

    -> PocketCASH: Set text to left(str(PocketCASH), LoopIndex)

    ----+ System: tokencount(str(PocketCASH), "") > 1 and len(str(PocketCASH)) > 3

    ----+ System: For "put" from floor(tokencount(str(PocketCASH), "")÷3) to 1

    -----> PocketCASH: Append ","&left(right(str(PocketCASH), LoopIndex×3), 3)

    --------+ System: tokenat(Text.Text, 0, "") = ","

    ---------> PocketCASH: Set text to right(PocketCASH.Text, tokencount(PocketCASH.Text, "")-1)

    My attempt at solving this:

    I tried adding a condition

    ----+ System: len(str(PocketCASH)) > 3

    However when I add this, now all the Money. Disappears whenever I press a button to purchase something in my game. But without this condition the purchasing works fine and the text updates, except with the annoying ,999 Comma before needed.

    Can someone help me?

    Original Question:

    Anyone know how to make a Text_SET, that is a Global variable, have commas in the Text. Like the variable is 10000 so the text displays 10000 now how would I get the text to display 10,000 instead?

  • Is there a Discord for Construct3?

    A place to collaborate or talk with other experienced Construct-3 people? I tried searching for "discord" in the forums but all the discord links are broken and 4 years ago.

  • Just need a simple system condition to compare the global like if variable = 0, set text to "Sunday", if variable =1, set text to "Monday" etc. To reset the variable the logic is with the button, so when button pressed add 1 to variable. Then a separate check if variable = 7, set variable to 0.

    Hey you mind if we connect?

    You seem very experienced wouldn't mind if I ask you a few other questions when I hit a road block?

    I'm grinding out a project in the next 30 to 90 days, and had I known this earlier I wouldn't have wasted 4 hours of my time trying to find a way to get a JavaScript to work.

    There's no IM or direct message on this site.

    Not sure what platforms you're on but my Reddit is No_Cockroach2259.

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  • Just need a simple system condition to compare the global like if variable = 0, set text to "Sunday", if variable =1, set text to "Monday" etc. To reset the variable the logic is with the button, so when button pressed add 1 to variable. Then a separate check if variable = 7, set variable to 0.

    Thank you I'll try it. I don't know why I made it so complicated lol.

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