100% agree with the original post!

Just checked out you game and its'a really cool! I love old school c64 era games, and your game plays very nicely

I also, checked out your video and although I couldn't understand it, it looked like you guys were having lots of fun!

Hi nvbenegra

I think teams are a good thing, IF you find the right people - which is VERY hard (in my opinion).

Everyone has their own lives, commitments and motivations. Very rarely will you find a team that wants to follow your dream (or share the same dream), unless they are paid etc.

I've been working with Flash for a long time, and after its demise, I had a very long downtime trying to find an engine that would suit my needs.

My partner and I have just had a baby (at Christmas) and like you I want to be efficient with my time. I honestly believe, that if you can (and have the right skills) to work on your own, you can be a little bit more sure about achieving your goal.

• Maybe try focusing on some simple but fun games, with really basic yet clean art, and juice them to death. This will be very manageable for a one man team.

• Build a website and put your games on there with advertisements.

• Sell non-exclusive sponsorships.

• Sell some templates etc. on the Scirra store.

• Make simple games for commission (once you have a small portfolio).

• Convert you games to apps and put them on the stores.

• Make what you love and you will find your followers / fans.

Just some ideas

Hope this helps!

Same thing happens to me on iOS.

Hi Guys

Thank you very much for all your help! You guys are awesome

I've ended up using blackhornet 's suggestion. It works exactly as I need, and with only 2 lines of code.

1. I give the monster eye a timer behaviour,

2. On Start of Layout, I start the timer with a random timeout.

3. On timeout I switch to the blink animation.

The timer sets up different random number for each instance, which is exactly what I need

Thank you again!

Hi guys

Just wondering whether anyone could give me any tips on a more concise way to code the snippet in the screen grab attached.

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/bjwcd3ezl3lkx ... n.jpg?dl=0

I like the first one. Also, I really like the other characters in the same style

Hi Ashley

Basically, I've read some posts on the forum claiming that the reduplication wasn't happening when cloning objects. The posts said that you were left with duplicates of the same image. After reading the article, I was a little bit confused whether I was understanding it right.

After doing the export as newt suggested, I've looked inside the image folder, and it looks like it I understood the article correctly. De-duplication occurs on all sprites, even clones

Thank you for your help!

I found the link detailing this topic, and after reading it again, I still understand it as - 2 different objects using the same images, will be de-duplicated.

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/577/construct-2s-export-time-optimisations

Could anyone please shed some light on this?

Ashley maybe

Thank you!

Hi newt

I've tried looking in the C2 manual for deduplication, but found nothing.

If I understand you correctly, the final export will end up having 10 of the same images, if I choose to clone my object.

This is a shame, as it's pretty inefficient and in my case I can't really use instance variables.

Anybody know where I could find a reference/manual link for this topic?

Thank you in advance!

Hi guys

If create 10 different sprites (not instances), all using the same png image, does the image get used 1x or 10x?

I'm sure I've read somewhere that construct only uses the image 1x if it finds duplicates.

If someone could clarify this for me, that would be awesome!

Thank you in advance!

Construct 2 is definitely a good choice for what you need.

Here are some links you will be interested in ...

C2 Metroid Demo

C2 Metroid Game Kit Demo

C2 Metroid Game Kit on the C2 Asset Store

https://www.scirra.com/store/royalty-fr ... e-kit-1319

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