Construct Classic

Construct Classic is a 2D constructor, 3D games for the Windows OS (using DirectX 9), and also serves for creating applications, cartoons, and 2D animation videos. The constructor was built on the WYSIWYG principle. This means that to create your video, animation, or game, you won’t have to spend a long time studying programming manuals. It’s very simple – add an object, enable animation for it, and it moves.

Construct Classic is a free, open-source application, so programming experts and developers can customize it as they see fit. This program, like Game Editor, is a quality alternative to the popular constructor Game Editor.

Advantages

The program operates based on programming the desired reaction to script events. Using DirectX, the constructor creates effects, through which custom pixel shaders on HLSL can be connected. The program supports plugins, allows skin replacement, and includes an integrated Python interpreter.

The installation package typically installs about 6 files. The installed file GraphicsDriverUpdater.exe is a component for automatic program updates, designed to check for software updates, notify about them, and apply them when new versions are detected.

Features

Events are the heart of Construct Classic. An intuitive alternative to programming. Operating solely with events makes it easy to start bringing your idea to life. You don’t need any programming experience to use it, and the wide range of features will appeal to experienced users.

Events are designed visually and in a developer-friendly way, allowing you to create game logic in your projects. There’s no need to memorize complex programming languages.

Events help you focus on what really matters: developing your idea! An event consists of a list of conditions and a list of actions to trigger. When all conditions are met, the actions are executed. It’s simple and intuitive.

Events also help you learn to think logically and understand real programming concepts, making it easier for you if you later decide to study a programming language. For example, Construct Classic events have equivalents to functions, loops, and variables. The program carefully works out these aspects to be analogous to programming, making them far more accessible to people without any programmer experience.

The environment is built in C++, and projects are based on Javascript. Compilation minifies Javascript, with the ability to connect Java plugins, SDKs, or add code yourself.

Among the advantages is that version r216 has a modular architecture, thanks to which action plugins used during development are excluded from the script itself, improving the optimization of the finished product.

Over 25 built-in scripts: direction, platformers, Car_2.1, bullets, fade, flash, wrap, pathfinding, turret, drag & drop, and more, greatly simplifying the creation of a gaming application.

Functionality

Construct Classic is one of the first engines to provide full-fledged support for “particle” effects in HTML. Box 2D Physics ensures the quality of physics modulation and offers fairly rich possibilities for implementing physical effects. Code test runs are available on the fly, without the need for compilation.

Plugins – over time, as an open-source product, it has gained a multitude of plugins and add-ons, significantly expanding its capabilities.

Main Functionality:

• Editing event reactions and events using drag-and-drop.
• Possibility to use a huge number of plugins.
• The program was created in Python, but it can be further developed in C++.
• Pixel shaders on HLSL can be connected.
• You can integrate ready-made source codes of games and applications in CAP format into the program.