Construct 3 r437

Notes

This week we're introducing a new Construct Game Services plugin! Currently this consists of a single action to submit a score on our own Arcade, but we have bigger plans for this. We'll be sharing more information and news about this in the near future.

We've also added the ability to rename the built-in Functions object. As the built-in Functions object does not appear in the Project Bar it needs a new way to rename it, so we've added a right-click Rename option when adding an action, as well as an option in the Project Bar project item's context menu, under the Tools sub-menu (the same place View project statistics appears). This also means the name used when calling functions from expressions can be changed, and that also means the name can be translated, whereas before it was hard-coded as the English name "Functions". As that name can appear in expressions, for backwards-compatibility reasons non-English users will see existing projects switch to the English name "Functions", but it can be renamed back to the translated version, and new projects will default to the translated name.

Other improvements include updates for the Layers Bar, Drawing Canvas, and the Google Play plugin is now updated to use the games v2 SDK as is now required by Google Play. There are also some scripting updates, notably now that there are script APIs to access families; a new World builder example demonstrating advanced usage of the mesh distortion feature; and as ever there's a batch of bug fixes. Happy testing!