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Hi guys! I'm Tom from Scirra and we made Construct 2 (http://www.scirra.com http://www.scirra.com). This is a great game made with our engine, the author has

Hi guys! I'm Tom from Scirra and we made Construct 2 (http://www.scirra.com http://www.scirra.com). This is a great game made with our engine, the author has also made it available on the Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lkiiendkaiacnmggppdckogcgmjaoapf https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lkiiendkaiacnmggpp... This game of course deserves it's own post as it's greatly executed, and without meaning to steal it's thunder we would love to show you a couple more excellent games made with Construct 2! Can't Turn it Off http://www.scirra.com/construct2/demos/cant-turn-it-off http://www.scirra.com/construct2/demos/cant-turn-it-off Trashoid Attack http://www.scirra.com/construct2/demos/trashoid-attack http://www.scirra.com/construct2/demos/trashoid-attack We also ran a small competition on our website and there's a bunch more games to look at here: http://www.scirra.com/forum/users-choice-final-poll_topic45844.html http://www.scirra.com/forum/users-choice-final-poll_topic458... Anyway it's really promising what is coming out of Construct 2 now, me and my brother (just two of us running Scirra) love playing games like these that get made! We hope to see lots more :D All games made in Construct 2 are all pure HTML5, not a whiff of Flash in sight!

johnyzee 15y ago
> not a whiff of Flash in sight! How do you handle sound? HTML5 sound is still very insufficient for games at the moment in my experience.
- TomGullen 15y ago
  This game doesn't have sound, but Construct 2 does allow for it. We've actually blogged about HTML5 sound quite a lot: http://www.scirra.com/blog/46/more-on-html5-audio-codecs-and-politics http://www.scirra.com/blog/46/more-on-html5-audio-codecs-and... It's a bit of a minefield and is difficult to manage. MP3 has some strict licensing rules in regards to distributing games so we made a point of avoiding it. What we do is dual encode every sound to .ogg and .m4a, this will cover all browsers/devices. It's not the best solution space wise but it's safe and works pretty well. We hope browsers make significant upgrades to HTML5 audio at some point! The easy option is to use Flash to handle sounds but we think this is cheating, we're kinda HTML5 purists :)
- AshleysBrain 15y ago
  Scirra dev here - we use HTML5 <audio> with some hacks that makes it just about work. The next release in a week or two includes support for Chrome's Web Audio API, which is a lot better and more stable, it's really a great API. Hoping more browsers support that soon.

johnyzee 15y ago

> not a whiff of Flash in sight! How do you handle sound? HTML5 sound is still very insufficient for games at the moment in my experience.

TomGullen 15y ago
This game doesn't have sound, but Construct 2 does allow for it. We've actually blogged about HTML5 sound quite a lot: http://www.scirra.com/blog/46/more-on-html5-audio-codecs-and-politics http://www.scirra.com/blog/46/more-on-html5-audio-codecs-and... It's a bit of a minefield and is difficult to manage. MP3 has some strict licensing rules in regards to distributing games so we made a point of avoiding it. What we do is dual encode every sound to .ogg and .m4a, this will cover all browsers/devices. It's not the best solution space wise but it's safe and works pretty well. We hope browsers make significant upgrades to HTML5 audio at some point! The easy option is to use Flash to handle sounds but we think this is cheating, we're kinda HTML5 purists :)
AshleysBrain 15y ago
Scirra dev here - we use HTML5 <audio> with some hacks that makes it just about work. The next release in a week or two includes support for Chrome's Web Audio API, which is a lot better and more stable, it's really a great API. Hoping more browsers support that soon.