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  • This has been on our todo list for a while now. We're doing families for the next release so maybe not the next release but hopefully some time soon.

    In the mean time you can replace logo.png in the exported directory to show your own image while the game loads.

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  • Construct 2 makes HTML5 games which run in a browser, so having it come to PCs isn't enough, it needs to support HTML5!

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  • So, there's only a minority that makes use of hardware-accelerated HTML5 canvas. 28% can't play at all, and for the rest it is terribly slow (<10fps).

    Where are you getting your figures for "a minority" from? Over 50% of the web is Firefox or Chrome which both support WebGL with fallback to hardware-accelerated 2D canvases. Of IE, 10% is now IE9 with hardware-accelerated 2D canvas. Obviously IE8 and earlier aren't supported, but the browsers which don't have hardware-accelerated HTML5 gaming are now in the minority!

  • Well, that article about Moblyng is interesting, but I don't think it indicates the state of HTML5 in general. Just some thoughts:

    • they took $17m in funding, so they'd have to make a lot of money off their games to stay afloat! It might be easier for indie devs to get by on a smaller scale business than that.
    • who can say how much their failure is due to HTML5, and how much due to the quality of the games they produced?
    • they released last year, when slow software-rendered 2D canvases were still around. It's all hardware accelerated now so the games would run faster if released now. C2 supports WebGL by default as well which is 2-3x faster and usually runs very nicely!

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  • We're hoping to improve this in future, but for now you can:

    • 'import sprite strip' in the animation editor to import a tile map as animation frames
    • set the animation speed to 0
    • enable 'snap to grid' (ribbon View tab)
    • ctrl+drag to make new tiles, and use the 'initial frame' property to switch tile.

  • Arima - on the other hand, it confused a lot of people because if you did:

    + Sprite X < 400

    -> Do something with Sprite

    + Else

    -> Do something else with Sprite

    ...they naturally expected the 'else' to only affect objects on the right, and I agree, that's how I think it should work too. However it turned out to be too complicated to get it working like that in Classic. It should be doable in C2 though.

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  • Microsoft sponsored the game to help promote IE9. Still, IE9 doesn't support Vorbis, WebGL or the Web Audio API, so other browsers right now are much better for HTML5 games. I still think Chrome is best (although given the browser wars are in full swing again I don't know how long this will stay true for!)

  • Simulating the jump key doesn't work in mid-air, because obviously pressing shift in mid-air by default doesn't let you jump again. Instead you need to set the vector Y to a negative value, e.g. -500 (if your jump strength is 500).

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