Ashley's Recent Forum Activity

  • Hi all,

    I've found an interesting site called Fundry. It allows users to pledge money towards the development of specific features.

    If you pledge money to a feature, when it is completed, everyone who pledged money is notified. Pledgers can then accept or reject the feature. Then:

    • If over half the pledgers accept, everyone's money is paid.
    • If under half of the pledgers accept, those who rejected the feature get their money back - but the dev still gets the pledges from those who accepted the feature.

    You can read more on the official About page.

    You can find the Construct 2 Fundry page here. I think a good experiment would be to run this for a while and see if it works. I suppose it might be nice for you guys if you can pledge money to the development of a specific feature you want, rather than just a general "payment" for Construct 2. And it's a nice extra motivator for devs

    I think it would be excellent to get plugin (and exporter?) developers on board as well: a third party dev could propose a plugin (or even a whole exporter), interested users pledge money, then when it's completed the developer can be paid. I think this should be done centrally through the Scirra fundry account to keep it all in one place - interested devs can post up their ideas, then when it's done, I'll send them the pledges that came in. (If you do this get in touch with me first so I know in advance where the funds are going!) This way other developers can make a bit on the side, too, as reward for their hard work.

    Anyone can post new feature requests, so feel free to go there now and start making requests and pledging funds if you're interested. Obviously we're still pre-alpha, so this might not really get going till the software is more mature, but I may as well leave it running in the mean time.

    How does that sound to you all? A good alternative funding scheme? And possibly making plugin devs happy?

  • Try Construct 3

    Develop games in your browser. Powerful, performant & highly capable.

    Try Now Construct 3 users don't see these ads

  • <gpl discussion>

    Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I guess GPL v3 isn't really applicable to C2 and GPL v2 will do just fine.

    However, I checked the sources, and the boilerplate is already there! I unknowingly pasted it in to every source file without really reading it:

    [quote:120z746m]// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

    // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

    // the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

    // (at your option) any later version.

    So I guess it is exactly what you described already! Thanks for clearing up the GPL v3 issue though, now I'm pretty sure we've done the right thing with licensing.

    (Note: despite what I said about the exporter being BSD, I checked the sources and they say GPL - woops! I'll relicense it to BSD today, it's all my code so it's straightforward)

    kwarn: I understand your concerns but I've already described our rationale in the open letter to the community - I don't really have anything to add on top of that, I'm afraid.

  • You do not have permission to view this post

  • IGPs get the job done providing they have decent drivers. I think the driver support is much better now - historically IGPs had very much half-baked drivers which made them seem glitchy.

  • There isn't an official list, but private variables and the image editor seem to be the most sorely missed. What do you think should be next? I'm open to everyone's feedback on this. Tell me what you need most.

  • I'm not sure, I haven't used an "old" video card in ages. I think the install base of half-decent graphics cards is now nearly everyone. DirectX and OpenGL seem to be equally well supported now.

  • I really can't think of a good answer to that question. Sorry. I'm going to have to leave it as an unknown.

  • Download Construct 2 public preview 26.2

    Link to release 26

    Minor update, mainly to fix the help links to point to a new wiki we set up - now hosted on our server, without ads. Writing a bit on the wiki would be a good way to help the project - but don't forget functionality may change in future releases!

    If you haven't read it yet, don't forget to read Welcome to the Construct 2 public preview!

    Changelog

    • [CHANGE] Help links now redirect to a Scirra.com hosted wiki
    • [CHANGE] Altered some of the pay-what-you-want wording.
    • [FIX] The pay-what-you-want bar screwed up other information bars (e.g. inserting Keyboard object).

  • I've moved all these to the bug tracker now, so check that for currently active bugs. Unstickied.

  • Ashley, thanks. I ask because I am looking at the Construct 3 code and wondering about the feasibility of a Qt port ... do you think any of the IDE code could be preserved in switching to Qt or is it all too bound to MFC?

    It's pretty tightly bound up in MFC. You could recycle some parts, like the renderer and project model, but anything to do with UI will probably be tied up in MFC. It'd be tricky, but don't underestimate having all the algorithms and design sorted out - that should make it a fair bit easier than just going from scratch from the file format.

    [quote:4bgcvlai]Also: the split GPL/BSD licensing you describe makes a lot of sense-- it does seem though like this would possibly prevent, for example, copying OpenGL rendering code out of the IDE and into a hypothetical exe exporter?

    Each source file has a license pasted at the top - and the renderer code is intentionally licensed BSD as well, for this purpose.

    [quote:4bgcvlai]Another small thing. A note in one of the files mentions GPL 3-- will it be GPL 3 only, then, or will GPL 2 be also available?

    I'm not actually clear on the difference between GPL 2 and 3 - if someone can describe exactly why GPL 3 would be a bad thing for Construct 2, I can re-license it to GPL 2.

  • C2 launches the image editor associated with the right-click 'edit' command on .png files. If you change this in Windows, it will change the editor C2 launches. Windows' default is MS Paint, but it can be changed by any program you install.

  • what are the licensing terms on the code in the Construct 2 svn on SourceForge?

    The editor is GPL, and the exporters are BSD. They're different because GPL forces derivative works to also be open source, but not so with BSD, so third party developers can copy code from the HTML5 exporter for their own exporters and still sell their work.

    with the move away from DX, how feasible is it that someone may be able to develop and XNA exporter? Is it a complete impossibility?

    An XNA exporter is perfectly possible. The exporter SDK allows for any exporter to be made regardless of the technology. The editor uses OpenGL, but that is isolated from the exporters - it has no effect on writing XNA or DirectX exporters. The engine keeps them apart so you're not forced in to using anything in an exporter or designing things a particular way - you can do what you want. Hence they are "modular" (entirely separate modules).

Ashley's avatar

Ashley

Early Adopter

Member since 21 May, 2007

Twitter
Ashley has 1,827,600 followers

Connect with Ashley

Trophy Case

  • Jupiter Mission Supports Gordon's mission to Jupiter
  • Forum Contributor Made 100 posts in the forums
  • Forum Patron Made 500 posts in the forums
  • Forum Hero Made 1,000 posts in the forums
  • Forum Wizard Made 5,000 posts in the forums
  • Forum Unicorn Made 10,000 posts in the forums
  • Forum Mega Brain Made 20,000 posts in the forums
  • x126
    Coach One of your tutorials has over 1,000 readers
  • x74
    Educator One of your tutorials has over 10,000 readers
  • x5
    Teacher One of your tutorials has over 100,000 readers
  • Sensei One of your tutorials has over 1,000,000 readers
  • Regular Visitor Visited Construct.net 7 days in a row
  • Steady Visitor Visited Construct.net 30 days in a row
  • RTFM Read the fabulous manual
  • x44
    Great Comment One of your comments gets 3 upvotes
  • Email Verified

Progress

32/44
How to earn trophies

Blogs