Sorry this got buried.

This isn't actually a bug. Broadcast message does work in a loop, the thing is that if you put a both a loop and a receive message behaviour onto the canvas, they can be executed in any order. The problem occurs when the loop behaviour is executed before the receive message behaviour is.

Solution: Put the loop and receive message behaviours into the same behaviour bundle, with the receive message executed before the loop behaviour.

That's pretty creepy. What we do on our own time is our own business.

@Aidan-Oxley I've downloaded your project and will take a look

We're also working on Hyperpad full time. But it’s hard. There’s a reason why we're the only WYSIWYG game creator on iPad.

Also, updates are slow because our app is in both a really stable state and a really broken state. For our more hardcore users (you guys), we're fixing pretty much all the issues at once because they all relate to each other, while making sure that the app stays stable for everyone else.

@Deeeds fix is very difficult, actually. Since a lot of our app runs on timers, everything will need to be tested. Just because its a "quick" code fix (it's also not a quick fix), does not mean its a quick fix for everything.

As for timers being slightly inaccurate, I think its because time is based off of frames, so if you're doing some pretty time accurate things, they need to be multiples of your fps eg 1/20, 1/60, 1/30 etc.

@deeeds said in Scenes are Broken:

This was also playing havoc with other aspects of my loaded scenes, since my entire game (and its camera motion) is based on physics. But it was so noticeable in the camera that I'd often (wrongly) assumed it had something to do with the code in the camera movement acting differently in loaded scenes. It's not that... it's the fundamental of physics time causing this most horrible of problems.

That is super strange! I'm glad you've been able to pin point exactly what part is broken. That gives me some ideas on where to look. If you can figure out the steps on how to reproduce it I can fix it much quicker

Whoa, I like the effect where all the gold comes to the character

Arrays are already global. Use the Get Array behaviour and set the Type to be behaviour. You can select an array value from other objects.

It sounds like you need the sound to preload the sound effect. A work around could be to play the sound with 0 volume initially that way its loaded into memory, and you can try playing it again later.

I have finally finished the tool to clean up bloated projects. We're initially going to add a button to do this in the project options, and we'll do it automatically when we see that its safe to do so. For now, anyone that wants their project cleaned up, can send the project to contact@hyperpad.com and I'll email you back your cleaned project.