Yea, I tested mine as well when the patch first came out and the third test did MUCH better. As soon as 161 gets fixed, I'll load up a comparison, make a note here and update the OP with a link.

Would be interested to see the same project with the new beta Fengist

Well, if I ever get C3 to work. Now I can't load any project and run it, not even a blank one. Putting in a bug report. Soon as I can I'll post a second version.

I think the word ambitious would be an understatement.

This post reminded me of a time when a friend and I, many years ago, pitted my Commodore Vic-20 with the Sargon chess cartridge against his Chess Challenger.

https://i.imgur.com/uiIOsL6.jpg

https://images.computerhistory.org/chess/sensory-chess-challenger.fidelity-electronics.1982.102633899.jpg?w=600

Both of those machines from the 80's provided some serious challenge to the amatuer chess player (provided you were patient) and I have little doubt that a C3 chess adaptation could easily outperform these old 'computers'. When you consider that Deep Blue was measured in GigaFlops and a modern computer is rated in TeraFlops, there should be plenty of computing power to make a decent AI. However, I doubt anyone has tackled this due to the fact that it wouldn't be a huge money maker and most people today want more instant gratification than a lengthy chess game can provide. But, chess still has a good following.

That being said, I'd start here:

chessprogramming.org/Main_Page

Out of curiosity, I did some digging and was even able to find tons of resources including the logic (and assembler code) used to create the first Sargon. So, if you're serious about this, the methodology is out there. As for templates? You're likely on your own.

So, for some people all these little upgrades may be nice, for me they mean nothing so far.

Nice? While goofing off I found an 'issue' involving lots of sprites. In the very next patch, that issue was drastically improved.

In all of my 55 years, once... and only ONCE... have I found an issue, made it known and had a dev team release a fix in the next patch. ONCE mind you.

There's an old joke about plumbers charging too much money.

The customer asks, "Is the **** out of the tub?"

The plumber nods his head.

The customer says, "Here's your money."

Yea, that's pretty nice.

Do all companies work like this? Oh hell no. Am I willing to support those that do? Ashley , "Here's your money."

Thank you nettemple and Fengist! I greatly appreciate your help in trying to solve this problem. And many thanks for the code samples and examples as that helps a lot!

I'm working on trying to create the form inside Construct and posting the data to the database via AJAX, as that does indeed seem the only way to do it.

Thank you again!!

Glad to help.

For the record, there is another way this could be done but you seem to be short on time.

There is a plugin called HTMLElement that allows HTML pages to be brought into Construct, displayed and information exchanged between the HTML and Construct. Incorporating the form is still going to be your quickest and easiest solution as HTMLElement is not terribly intuitive to learn, would require reworking a lot of the HTML on the form to include special codes, reworking the CSS and loading that into Construct and some new PHP scripts.

If you plan on doing much more work like this, it may be worth your time to learn that plugin as the power it extends to Construct to display HTML is pretty powerful.

BTW, great looking site and game.

Ummm, you can create bro but before you take step watch this video in this video check top 10 ways to come up with game ideas! Video link: youtube.com/watch

Gud luck for the future.

Nice video, thanks for posting this. I discovered that my inspirations follow right along with his '10' list. The current inspiration came from playing a game and thinking, I can make this better. Another came from an experiment on these forums which lead to a game jam which led to a game that I think, I can do better.

Not sustainable? Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer made their money before all this rental ******** and they are worth about $160,000,000,000 And that's just the top 2 guys.

Correct. And how many versions of Windows and DOS have we had to purchase? I started on PC's with DOS 3.0. The MS guys also had something that Scirra doesn't, a virtual monopoly on OS's that started with IBM. Scirra is facing a market saturated with programming IDE's.

The problem with the one-off model in a saturated market is that you have to WAIT for someone to WANT your product in order to make money off of it. In my occupation it's called the "break-fix" model. I have to wait for you to break it before I can fix it and charge you gobs of money doing so. The HUGE problem with that is, I never know if I'm going to be able to feed my self next week because I have no steady, consistent income. IF you have a monopoly on your product and do great marketing like DOS and Windows then yea, you'll make gobs of money just like they did. IF you're in a competitive market and you product or service isn't the only one out there, you have no idea if your business will be open next week or if you'll be sleeping in the gutter. That's ESPECIALLY true if you're a small indy company working in a garage (gee, I think Bill and Steve did that) with no financial backing.

I for one have no problem with the subscription model. Ashley and Tom gain the confidence that their business is stable enough that they can hire more employees to give an even better product and even better service.

A few years ago when I first purchased C2, you rarely saw any Scirra member on the forum. I'd post an issue and never get an official response. Now? I see them on here daily solving problems for their customers. THAT's the difference I'm willing to invest in.

Switching to c3 can be a solution for some users, for others this is not an option, c3 is a service with quite limited payment options, it is not a product like c2.

For the same reason you can't buy Microsoft Office as an installable product any more. You have to 'rent' Office 365. It's not a long-term, sustainable method of income. I still see customers come into my computer repair shop running Office 2007. That's 12 years of using a product that needs to pay employees to keep it fixed and updated while making only one payment. The cost of maintaining such software over the long-haul exceeds the income of a one-time payment system.

Get used to it. Windows as a service is coming.

Oh... I see what you're trying to do. You're trying to pass POST parameters to a URL AND open that page in the browser so that you can add the scores and player info.

I don't even know if that's possible. You may be able to do that by opening the page in an IFrame inside the game but I've never attempted to pass a query that way.

My initial thoughts would be to incorporate the save_score.php form into the Construct project and then pass the data from that form to a php that adds the data to the MySQL database via Ajax and either returns a success or failure.

OK This is a working version:

Suggestion. Either use real_escape_string before doing a query

php.net/manual/en/mysqli.real-escape-string.php

or use the PHP prepare:

php.net/manual/en/mysqli.prepare.php

I realize this was just a basic example but it's a good habit to present even when demonstrating the basics.