Introduction
Construct is a free powerful and easy to use development software for both DirectX 9-based games and applications. It includes an event based system for defining how the game or application will behave, in a visual, human-readable way - easy enough for complete beginners to get results quickly. Optionally, advanced users can also use Python scripting to code your creations.

Construct is not a commercial software project, and is developed by volunteers. It is 100% free to download the full version - no nag screens, adverts or restricted features at all.
Features
Create games and applications with:

    * Super fast hardware-accelerated DirectX 9 graphics engine
    * Add multiple pixel shaders for special effects, including lighting, HDR, distortion, lenses and more
    * Advanced rendering effects like motion blur, skew and bumpmapping (3D lighting)
    * Innovative Behaviors system for defining how objects work in a flexible way
    * Physics engine for realistic object behavior
    * Place object on different layers for organising display, parallaxing, or whole-layer effects - also freely zoom individual layers in and out with high detail
    * Debugger giving you complete control over all aspects of your game for testing purposes.
    * Python scripting for advanced users - however, Construct's Events system is still powerful enough to complete entire games without any scripting.
    * Smaller, faster specialised runtime for applications
    * 60+ plugins ranging from Tiled Background to Windows controls and a C++ plugin SDK for custom development

Development process
Construct is developed open source under the General Public License (GPL). This means you can download and use Construct for free, but it also means that the underlying source code - the code that defines how the program works - is also freely available. This means other programmers are free to fix errors in the code and make their own contributions to Construct. Development is located on Construct's SourceForge.net page.

For more information, see Open-source Software (Wikipedia) and GPL (Wikipedia), the open-source license Construct uses.
User Interface Library
Construct uses the Prof-UIS professional user interface library, with kind permission of FOSS Software, Inc. Remember if you wish to use this library in your own project, you must purchase the appropriate license from the website.

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About Enamel with 4 comments by Ehnenu on May 22nd, 2013

Hello everybody!

Early Beta version of "Enamel" is coming soon on Desura, so it's time to give you more information about the game, and tell you little about us.

* English is not our native language, so sorry for all the mistakes

We are a team of two people whose passion is to create games. This is our first game, and it took us a more than year and a half to the make current version of the game. Not everything went as we would like, but we learns from our mistakes. We hope that with your help we can gradually improve overall gameplay and fix all encountered bugs in the game.


The current version (0.7.3) of the game contains no content plot, and still not all of the features are enabled. However, it will gradually change during the game updates.

"Enamel" will cost 4.99 EUR in Beta stage. Once game is completed, this price will increase probably to 7.99 EUR. If you like it, you can preorder "Enamel" now and get it on May 28.

Enamel

If you have any questions, just ask and we will try to answer as best as we can :)

Cheers!

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x246h00--r5
x246h00--r5 Jul 4 2011, 2:36pm says:

guys is site scirra.com a live or a down?
can't open, i'm sad

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pastaprod
pastaprod Oct 25 2011, 12:55pm replied:

its still going

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Reqieumthefallen
Reqieumthefallen May 18 2011, 1:29pm says:

This game is probably one of the best I've seen. I've tried scripting systems similar to Construct's (primarily RTS games like Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds), and I have to say this leads the pack. Also, the fact that you can make commercial games without having to do anything, other than credit the original devs, is a rather nice bullet-point in choosing this engine.

As for multi-platform development... I frankly am not that deeply concerned as of yet. While I do look forward to making my gamessome day work on Linux and Mac as well, the PC is a good proving ground before you go further. It's better to know if you're ready to actually develop games before you start something like a Source Mod or a 3D game (such as a game using CryEngine3, UDK, or Unity).

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harvey_soft
harvey_soft Mar 6 2011, 12:53pm says:

The problem with this program is that there isnt any cross programing or anything. this needs fixed or i will quit using this when i upgrade, which i will be soon. please fix this.

+1 vote     reply to comment
Derme302
Derme302 Nov 10 2012, 10:35pm replied:

Construct 2 has multi-platform support.

+1 vote     reply to comment
RangerC
RangerC Feb 2 2011, 4:45pm says:

im just afraid of newbie products which die after 1 week of developement.

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Arky_
Arky_ Feb 5 2011, 1:43pm replied:

"Release Date: Released Jan 10, 2008 "
emm, yea.......

+5 votes     reply to comment
onewizardstale
onewizardstale Jan 2 2011, 12:21pm says:

Great programm, to make interesting 2d games.

+3 votes     reply to comment
-Phil-
-Phil- Sep 12 2010, 2:35pm says:

REAL GOOD,And easy to learn

+2 votes     reply to comment
mast3row
mast3row May 11 2010, 12:08pm says:

i am going to try it now ;)

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