Space Blaster for Windows demo

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   Here's a demo of Space Blaster running as a desktop app for Windows (EXE):

http://www.scirra.com/labs/spaceblaster-win32.zip

It's powered by Awesomium, which is basically Google Chrome wrapped up in to a standalone app.  It's free for indie developers providing you made less than $100k last year, after which there's a fee (which is small compared to your revenue if you just made $100k).

Some parts of it are very cool:
- Super fast V8 javascript engine, equivalent to Google Chrome's, which compiles javascript to native machine code
- Renders with WebGL
- Supports Web Audio API for reliable polyphonic low-latency audio
- Completely self-contained - includes all the necessary files in the download and works offline
- It should be possible to access files on disk as well.

There are some minor disadvantages:
- Since Chrome is a complete commercial-quality browser engine, it adds about 15mb to the zipped download size.  There's not much that can be done to avoid it.  I suppose you're more likely to be targeting larger games for the desktop, so hopefully that size isn't so big when taking in to account all the assets of your game.
- Currently the demo will chew up more CPU than it needs and run slower than it would normally in the Chrome browser.  We know why this is and we're trying to help Awesomium to fix it.
- If your computer does not support WebGL it will fall back to a slower canvas 2D.  We also know why this is and we can get WebGL enabled for all computers, which is better than the browser itself, and we're also trying to help Awesomium get that sorted too.

Anyway, experimental support should be coming in the next beta release in a few days!

Edited by Ashley - 22 Jun 2012 at 11:55am

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Ashley Scirra Developer 84,369 Rep 43 78 194	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ashley Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Space Blaster for Windows demo Posted: 22 Jun 2012 at 11:47am
	Here's a demo of Space Blaster running as a desktop app for Windows (EXE): http://www.scirra.com/labs/spaceblaster-win32.zip It's powered by Awesomium, which is basically Google Chrome wrapped up in to a standalone app. It's free for indie developers providing you made less than $100k last year, after which there's a fee (which is small compared to your revenue if you just made $100k). Some parts of it are very cool: - Super fast V8 javascript engine, equivalent to Google Chrome's, which compiles javascript to native machine code - Renders with WebGL - Supports Web Audio API for reliable polyphonic low-latency audio - Completely self-contained - includes all the necessary files in the download and works offline - It should be possible to access files on disk as well. There are some minor disadvantages: - Since Chrome is a complete commercial-quality browser engine, it adds about 15mb to the zipped download size. There's not much that can be done to avoid it. I suppose you're more likely to be targeting larger games for the desktop, so hopefully that size isn't so big when taking in to account all the assets of your game. - Currently the demo will chew up more CPU than it needs and run slower than it would normally in the Chrome browser. We know why this is and we're trying to help Awesomium to fix it. - If your computer does not support WebGL it will fall back to a slower canvas 2D. We also know why this is and we can get WebGL enabled for all computers, which is better than the browser itself, and we're also trying to help Awesomium get that sorted too. Anyway, experimental support should be coming in the next beta release in a few days! Edited by Ashley - 22 Jun 2012 at 11:55am
	The Construct 2 manual - Beginner's guide to Construct 2

leonhard 5,355 Rep 5 5 18	Post Options Post Reply Quote leonhard Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jun 2012 at 11:58am
	great

Grimbarian 606 Rep 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote Grimbarian Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jun 2012 at 11:58am
	Very exciting stuff. The more you guys add, the harder it is not to love this software.

Era 6,082 Rep 6 7 28	Post Options Post Reply Quote Era Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jun 2012 at 12:03pm
	This is awesome :)


Awakening 1,193 Rep 8	Post Options Post Reply Quote Awakening Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jun 2012 at 12:08pm
	Looks good, any way to do full screen?

hylists 1,133 Rep 1 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote hylists Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jun 2012 at 12:13pm
	I get average 24 fps, but sometime it's very slow on my Intel pentium dual cpu 1.8Ghz, 1GB RAM, but hey it's work. :]

alspal 8,526 Rep 7 12 36	Post Options Post Reply Quote alspal Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jun 2012 at 1:15pm
	Good start, hope they fix it so it catches up to firefox/chrome speed.

Przemek32767 8,589 Rep 10 13 66	Post Options Post Reply Quote Przemek32767 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jun 2012 at 1:32pm
	Oh, so you are finally adding this to Construct 2. This will be a killer feature, especially once Awesonium improves the FPS.

Black2key 2,321 Rep 1 3 17	Post Options Post Reply Quote Black2key Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jun 2012 at 1:40pm
	Seems great! [Currenlty 22-24 fps, but if thats going to be fixed: awesome(ium)!] Can't wait for the release with this export in it.

gammabeam 9,635 Rep 5 32 74	Post Options Post Reply Quote gammabeam Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jun 2012 at 1:42pm
	Wow! Gonna try it today! Awesome news folks!