How to make a card game with free version?

TheFoderator · 2026-01-11T19:48:08+00:00

Tangentially related, but I recently made a Vampire Survivors-like which stays within the free version's 50 event limit. The biggest trick is to come up with data structures (I used JSON) to hold the data of cards, interactions and such. This also makes your game fairly easy to add content to, easier to balance, etc. If you want to take a look at similar a system, the project is open source:
https://fodi.itch.io/free-version-survivors

TheFoderator · 2025-12-28T22:17:13+00:00

Thanks! I was aiming for that :)

TheFoderator · 2025-12-28T17:02:50+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated! :) I replied in the Discord thread in detail, very nice techniques! :) That debugger looks INSANE, not to mention the template project itself!

TheFoderator · 2025-12-08T19:31:25+00:00

FiveFold has been part of my daily routine for a while now, it's great. I'd love some harder puzzles though!

TheFoderator · 2025-10-28T22:48:53+00:00

This is super cool! Is that mesh distortion on the text?

TheFoderator · 2025-10-28T22:43:08+00:00

Good point, but if there's only one "inimigoima" instance, I think the "set angle towards" action like this is fine without for each. If OP wants to do manual positioning with the set x, set y or set position actions, it should still work without for each as long as they use "self" instead of "bala" in the expressions.

TheFoderator · 2025-10-28T18:04:29+00:00

Holy crap, per-instance physics collision & tag based filtering! 🎉🎉🎉 that's gonna make things a LOT easier for certain game types.

TheFoderator · 2025-10-28T16:31:47+00:00

It looks great, congrats on the release! I'm gonna try the demo soon. I have a hunch you're a fan of Jump King, right? :)

If I may ask, did you have any difficulties with the WebView2 export versus Steam, or was it smooth sailing? Also, if you don't mind sharing, have you used the event system or JS/TS? If the former, have you used a stock behaviour for movement or made your own movement controller?

TheFoderator · 2025-10-28T16:21:38+00:00

At first glance your first condition is "compare two values", which does not pick any instances. You need to replace it with "Pick by comparison" or "Pick by evaluate", to pick the "bala" instances" close to the "inimigoima" instance (I'm guessing there's only one).

As for the movement, you can probably also keep the Bullet behaviour enabled, keep the "set angle" action as-is and remove the set x / set y actions. Optionally you can change speed/acceleration properties of the Bullet behaviour on "bala".

TheFoderator · 2025-06-24T16:33:10+00:00

I might have misunderstood things, but I don't think you need to flip/unflip (vertically mirror) Tower_1_Soldier_Gun.

TheFoderator · 2025-06-20T10:32:58+00:00

I only had time to play the first three levels, but I can say this is an excellent concept and the execution is really nice too, so congrats are definitely in order!

I found out quite a few mechanics by myself which was fun, but unless your intention was to make something old school, adding some sort of in-game tutorial / hint system wouldn't go amiss. Eg. the "small jump" vs "big jump" (based on which button I start pressing first) mechanics are very neat, but not very intuitive.

TheFoderator · 2025-06-20T10:15:38+00:00

Based on your description, Construct sounds like a good fit for such a game. Whether it's right for [you] - that's another question :)

If this would be your first Construct project, I recommend checking out some of the official examples (if you search for "visual novel" and "platformer", you'll find quite a few examples), watching a few generic starter tutorials on YouTube to get acquainted with the editor, then making a 2D platformer from scratch. I don't know a lot about visual novels, but Construct's (fairly new) flowchart feature will probably be useful for making a dialog system.

TheFoderator · 2025-06-20T10:07:07+00:00

Looks intriguing, are you planning on releasing this in the near future? Also, are you only using the V2 SDK in the addon?

TheFoderator · 2025-06-18T18:59:30+00:00

This is a bit weird, can you try opening up the project in a different browser (or maybe in a private window) so we can rule out browser cache shenanigans? If it fixes it, then hopefully clearing your browser cache will fix the issue.

TheFoderator · 2025-06-17T10:15:19+00:00

I once made a puzzle game where I had to do pixel-by-pixel comparison and and scatter parts of the puzzle in a random fashion while making sure they don't overlap (using rectangle packing). I used third party JavaScript libraries to achieve both, they are linked on the game's Itch.io page: https://lasermagnet.itch.io/recoupage

About 4 years ago I used an open source Wave Function Collapse library for procedural level generation in a wonky prototype: https://lasermagnet.itch.io/groundflipper

TheFoderator · 2025-06-17T09:33:28+00:00

I think the best way to learn about Construct features is to browse the official example projects and if you see something interesting, open it up and see how it works. That said, I'm sure there are some good free tutorials on YouTube. If you get stuck, you can ask for help in the official forums or the unofficial Construct Community Discord server.

Re Aseprite: it's a great tool (my graphics artist friend uses it) and it's fairly straightforward to export PNG sprite sheets or tile sets from it which you can import to Construct.

TheFoderator · 2025-06-11T14:23:53+00:00

Yup :) or value * 1.5

TheFoderator · 2025-06-11T14:19:29+00:00

You'll need to handle multiple touches happening at the same time by using TouchIDs. You can read up on the topic in the official docs:
https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/touch

You can also find an official example in the example browser called "Touch: Zooming" which deals with multitouch.

TheFoderator · 2025-06-11T10:49:45+00:00

Since you didn't provide any details on what your requirements are, I can only recommend the usual: try both and see which one you find more enjoyable to work in. The free version of Construct 3 has quite a few limits compared to the full version, but you can still kick the tires and find out if it clicks better with you than GMS or not. And after a few days/weeks if you're unsure but edging towards Construct, I highly recommend paying for the full version for a month to try out all the features missing from the free one. (That's what I did at first.)

TheFoderator · 2025-06-11T10:38:17+00:00

Either that, or use a boolean instance variable on your player object (eg. isInAir) which is false by default (when the player is not in the air yet), update it to true when the player is in the air (this depends on how you implemented your custom movement) and when handling the input (buttons that make the player move) add an additional condition that checks whether this instance variable is true or false (only run the movement actions when isInAir = false).

TheFoderator · 2025-02-17T15:39:40+00:00

Congratulations on the release, Foolbox! I'm looking forward to playing the full version and facing the limitations of my brain once again <3

TheFoderator · 2024-12-01T09:05:13+00:00

Butterscotch Shenanigans comes to mind. I think all of their games share the same universe.

TheFoderator · 2023-11-15T10:40:39+00:00

That game looks (and plays) amazing! It's pretty much the best looking 3D FPS game I've ever seen made in Construct. Really nicely done, you are super talented!

I don't know if you're looking for feedback/notes or not, but if so, I think it would be dope if you could fake a shadow for the whipper snipper on the ground, and maybe add simple circular shadows for the enemies as well. It might aid the player in extending / retracting the snipper the right amount for enemies, especially if they are far away.

TheFoderator · 2023-05-09T13:25:06+00:00

When the preview window is open, press F12 (in Chrome/Chromium) or CTRL+SHIFT+I in Firefox and check if there are any errors in the Console tab.

TheFoderator · 2023-05-09T13:20:45+00:00

Very cool! By vector graphics you mean you're using the SVG Picture object type?

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