HTML5 Game Creation with Construct 2

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HTML5 App Game Creation

• Using Construct 2

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What is Construct 2?

• Construct 2 is a powerful ground breaking HTML5
  game creator designed specifically for 2D games.
  It allows anyone to build games no coding
  required!
• Construct doesn't stop at just being a game
  maker. With the cross platform power of HTML5,
  Construct 2 allows you to export your projects to
  a variety of platforms. Some included
• Windows 8
• Windows Phone 8
• Blackberry 10
• Tizen
• Chrome
• Windows EXE
• CocoonJS (To wrap your games into native Droid
  and iOS apps)
• and more.

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Who can use Construct 2?

• Indies and Hobbyists
• Use Construct 2 to enter the world of game
  creation.
• Teachers and Students
• Teach the principles of programming in a fun and
  engaging way.
• Designers and Artists
• Produce games without having to learn difficult
  languages.
• Professional Developers
• Rapidly create mockups and prototypes, or use it
  as a faster alternative to coding.
• Internet Marketers
• Quickly create mobile applications for your
  products and Niches

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Quick Easy

• Bring your work to life in hours and days instead
  of weeks and months. With Construct 2 making
  games is a piece of cake just drag and drop
  objects around, add behaviors to them, and make
  everything come alive with events!
• With a quick and easy to grasp Ribbon interface,
  you have clear access to a wide set of tools that
  allows anyone to jump into game creation with
  little to no prior game development knowledge.

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Quick Easy

• The Layout Editor provides a what-you-see-is-what-
  you-get visual interface to design your levels.
  You can drag, rotate and resize objects,
  visualize effects applied, and quickly change
  their settings to your liking in the Properties
  Bar. Objects can be arranged on separate layers
  for enhanced organization, allowing advanced
  parallax and blending effects. There's also a
  built-in image editor to conveniently make quick
  edits to your object's graphics.

Within minutes or hours you can have a working
prototype that you can share with friends to
play. In almost no time you can test your ideas
and know if they are really fun or not, focusing
your efforts in what matters the most designing
your game!
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Powerful Event System

• Make your game do what it needs to do in a visual
  and human readable way with the powerful Event
  System. Theres no need to memorize complicated
  and cryptic languages. With events programming
  becomes intuitive putting your focus on what
  really matters designing your game!

Events are created by selecting possible
conditions and actions from an organized list.
The result list of events, or Event Sheet, is
designed to be as easily readable as possible, so
that beginners can get instant results as well.
Entire event sheets can be re-used by other
levels, saving you re-creating events for other
levels.
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Powerful Event System

• Creating the events you need for your game is
  rather intuitive. Just choose the right object,
  select a condition or action, and add it to the
  event. Construct 2 helps you to learn how to
  think in a logical way and understand real
  programming concepts, making it easy for you if
  you decide to learn a programming language later.

Each event sheet has a list of events, which
contain conditional statements or triggers.Once
these are met, actions or functions can be
carried out.
Groups can be used to enable/disable multiple
events at once, and for organisation in large
projects. Advanced event logic such as OR blocks,
sub-events, local variables and recursive
functions allow for sophisticated systems to be
programmed without learning a comparatively more
difficult programming language.
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Flexible Behaviors

• Behaviors work as pre-packaged functions that you
  can assign to objects and reuse whenever needed.
  They provide an instant way to add capabilities
  to objects, speeding up development and
  increasing productivity.
• They include movements such as 8 directions,
  platform, and car advanced features like physics
  and pathfinding and useful utilities like fade,
  flash, wrap, pin and drag drop.

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Flexible Behaviors

• Most behaviors can be replicated with events, but
  it simply is far more time consuming to do so.
  Thats why behaviors can be great time savers,
  without limiting what's possible when you need to
  go further.
• For example, adding the Platform Behavior to a
  sprite allows you to immediately run and jump
  along objects marked as 'solid'. You can then
  change the settings for speed, acceleration, jump
  strength, gravity, and more, until its behaving
  exactly the way you need.

Because of their ease of use they are great for
beginners, who can get instant results. And they
still make life easier for experienced users. For
example, need an object to move and rotate with
another object? Just add the Pin behavior! It
literally only takes seconds, and all
complications are removed.
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Stunning Visual Effects

• Let your games go from good to gorgeous using
  C2s blend modes, effects and particle system.
• There are over 70 WebGL-based pixel shader
  effects to warp, distort, blend, blur, mask,
  re-color and more. You can add these to objects,
  layers and layouts for quick special effects and
  also stack them up to create incredible results.
  You can even see everything applied in real time
  in the editor!

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Stunning Visual Effects

• Construct 2 also allows you to setup fall backs
  to when effects support is not available,
  ensuring that players get the best possible
  experience out of your game. For example, a
  'Screen' WebGL effect can be replaced by an
  'Additive' blend mode when the player's computer
  does not support it, preserving the player
  experience as best as possible on a range of
  hardware and system setups.

Another great feature is the Particles plugin. It
works by creating and moving many small images
independently, easily generating sprays of
sparkles, smoke, water, debris, and whatever more
your imagination can create. Its a really
versatile object capable of many different kinds
of visual effects.
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Multiplatform Export

• Publish your games on a broad selection of
  platforms with a single project. Theres no need
  to maintain multiple codebases. By using
  Construct 2's HTML5-based engine you can export
  to most major platforms.
• Easily reach the web by publishing to your own
  website, Chrome Web Store, Facebook, Kongregate,
  NewGrounds, Firefox Marketplace or use our Scirra
  Arcade to share your creations. Export your game
  to desktop PC, Mac and Linux apps by using the
  Node-Webkit wrapper. Additionally publish to
  Windows 8 Store or as a native Windows Phone 8
  app.

You can also reach the popular iOS and Android
app stores using wrappers like CocoonJS, appMobi
and PhoneGap all three with built-in
support. With extensive platform support you can
rest assured that players will have access to
your game no matter where they are.
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Easy Extensibility

• Construct 2 comes with more than 20 built-in
  plugins, over 20 behaviors and more than 70
  visual effects. They range from displaying text
  and sprites, sound and music playback, input,
  data manipulation and storage, particle effects,
  movement presets, Photoshop-like effects, and
  many more.
• If you are a power user and still needs some
  specific functionality, Construct 2 let you
  create your own plugins and behaviors using our
  fully documented Javascript SDK. You can also
  create your own visual effects using GLSL shader
  language.

Our community has already produced more than 150
plugins and behaviors. Its really easy, theres
no need for any special tools! All you need is a
text editor and a little javascript or GLSL
knowledge. It's also a great introduction to
adding real programming to your games.
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Try it for Free!

• Construct 2 has a Free version that you can use
  to make your own games right away. The free
  version has it's limits, but it's fully
  functional. A few of the limitations are
• You can't sell games made with the Free version
• 100 Event limit
• No Families
• Other than that, the free version works just like
  the full version. Pricing is also very
  competitive compared to other products out.

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Learn Construct 2

• Learn Construct 2 is a website dedicated to
  helping beginners of Construct 2 with video
  tutorials.

http//www.LearnConstruct2.com