In February 2018
Blog posts
- Scirra
- New Gamejam with GAMEE! - An article in which Laura announces a month-long competition in partnership with the social platform GAMEE.
- Construct works with GameAnalytics - An article in which Tom presents GameAnalytics as well as its plugin/SDK for Construct 2 and 3. You can analyse events from your game using this free of charge service.
- Construct 2 price increasing on 12th March - An article in which Tom announces a raise in price for Construct 2 coming in March.
- Introducing the Construct Addon Exchange - An article in which Tom introduces us to the new Addon Exchange, a page on construct.net where we can find a listing of addons for Construct 3, from the official to third-part one. Authors are invited to post there in order to have a centralized database where to find addons for Construct 3 (and Construct 2 as well). Additional bonus, the announcement of the Greenworks plugin for Construct3, implement Steam integration in your C3 made games !
C3 New releases
- r83 (beta) - Some last fixes before a stable update.
- r84 (beta) - Desktop build improvements & a few more fixes.
- r85 STABLE - Stable release.
- r86 (beta) - Bug fixes; new in-progress Dutch translation.
- r87 (beta) - Project saving/opening improvements; some additions and fixes.
- r88 (beta) - Beta opt-in; Spanish & Czech languages; lots of additions and fixes.
- r88.2 (beta) - Fix for saving issue in r88.
- Find all the releases and changelogs on the new website https://www.construct.net/fr/make-games/releases.
If you think you have found a bug in Construct 3 you can report your bugs on github following the instructions and templates provided there.
You can also provide suggestions on the features suggestion platform at https://construct3.ideas.aha.io/.
You can discuss Construct 3 in this forum.
Remember, as announced, ultimately forums and other community related discussion channels will be moved to the new https://www.construct.net.
Construct 3 has an English online manual ! Be sure to read it : https://www.construct.net/gb/make-games/manuals/construct-3.
You can also check out Construct 3 tutorials and releases.
If you talk a different language, you may also take part into translating Construct 3 and possibly getting a free subscription for it.
Read more on this in this forum.
The
Addon Exchange service, holding Construct 2 and Construct 3 addons is now available.
Authors, be sure to upload and maintain your addons there.
Users be sure to check this one out from now on, this is meant to become the official place where to find addons for Construct.
C2 New releases
The features listed here are only the "highlighted" features for each release. Check each release page to see the complete changelog and comments for each version)
Be sure to keep updated to the
most recent release of Construct 2
If you think you have found a bug in Construct 2 you can report it in this forum BUT
- Make sure it is not already a reported bug by searching through the "Bugs" forum
- Make sure it is not a bug in your events, a difference between what you have coded and what you would expect
- Make sure you're using the very latest version of Construct 2 (beta possibly, stable if this is the very latest release available)
- Attach a .capx of the issue in the simplest manner possible (no 100+ events capx, no 10 mb capx)
- Make sure to read Bug report requirements before posting and provide all the required informations (your configuration, the steps to use to reproduce the bug, any relevant information you can provide)
It is really important since about 50% of reports aren't bugs which takes time out of working on Construct2 directly.
Be responsible, help everybody by making sure it's not your events in cause first.
NW.JS
The
Addon Exchange service, holding Construct 2 and Construct 3 addons is now available.
Authors, be sure to upload and maintain your addons there.
Users be sure to check this one out from now on, this is meant to become the official place where to find addons for Construct.
Third part addons
WebGL effects
- No new effects this month
- User Saiyadjin did a big job putting in place in July 2017 this google doc which attempts to add descriptions to add ons and effects and determine if they are up to date or not.
You can check the document or check for yourself directly in the forums' topics.
Reminder
- You can consult all or the newest tutorials for Construct 2.
- You can consult the newest, the recommended, the highest rated, the most favourited or yet again the most popular tutorials for Construct 3.
- You can check the top or the newest games in the arcade
- You can find even more games and other kind of projects in "Your creations" forum category, either completed creations or works in progress.
- If you haven't already, be sure to check out the videos playlist "C2 academy" up on youtube !
- Get help using Construct2 in the "How do I forum or even in the "Beginner's questions forum.
Those are the forums to ask and find answer to technical questions about Construct 2 (don't forget to also consult the sticky "How do I Frequently Asked Question")
- Get help using Construct 3 by checking the previous forum (implementation in Construct 2 should work in Construct 3 as well). You can also check the dedicated Construct 3 forums, with a dedicated technical forum for Construct 3.
- The manual for Construct 2 gets updated with each new stable release, be sure to consult it.
- The manual for Construct 3 gets updated as well with each new stable release, be sure to consult it. It is specific to Construct 3 and helps with new features and specific Construct 3 ways.
- Concerning Addons, Tom published the Addon Exchange service, holding Construct 2 and Construct 3 addons.
Authors, be sure to add your addons there. Users be sure to check this one out from now on, this is meant to become the official place where to find addons for Construct.
- A list of all completed plugins and behaviors for Construct 2is maintained as sticky in the "Completed addons" forum.
- A list of the published webGL effects is maintained in the "Effects" forum.
- If you have some plugins, behaviors or effects of your own you want to share, please post them in the appropriate forum with a title tag (either [Plugin], [Behavior] or [Effect]).
Don't hesitate to ask moderators when doing so in case you're confused where would be the better place to post.
- You can discuss addons making for Construct 3 in the SDK forum for Construct 3.
- You can contact Laura in order to have your C2/C3 made games promoted through Construct Team social networks. Read the following article for all the complete details on how to do so.
- You can consult Construct Team's 2018 AMA on Reddit. A lot of interesting questions concerning Construct 2 and Construct 3 were discussed during that AMA and you may find useful answers, such as Construct 2's future as indicated by Ashley.
Former retrospect
As an added bonus, here is a list of the former "What you may have missed" posts for the year.
I don't know for you, but February was snowy in London and at mine's.
So it's nice to stay inside working on nice game making tools provided by the Construct Team.
Be sure to get your license for Construct 2 before the 12th March if you are looking to get one, do not worry the price will go up.
See you next month.