This is a link.

i thought Tigerworks used to make extensions or something.

....... whoa, it looks a *lot* like MMF2. No kidding about the competition.

Yes, Tigerworks made extensions for MMF in the past.

I'm not liking the Construct interface, almost certainly because I don't like change. That aside, it seems just as I expected: Aside from the odd bug or glitch that will be ironed out during beta, it seems to be MMF2 + more.

I ran some preliminary tests regarding # of objects on screen related to performance. It varies depending on what kind of "movement" you may have selected for the objects (the Physics movement takes up a decent amount of power), but under normal conditions you can have about three times as much stuff going on the screen as you can in MMF2 with no slowdown.

My first project (or so I'm thinking right now) is to make a "magic show" minigame for my niece, which will attempt to make good use of the special effects you can accomplish in Construct.

The thing I'm most interested in is how well it can "scale" projects, i.e. build large games without ridiculous scenarios like events duplicated in every frame. What kind of programming features are in it....

So far it looks promising.

"The thing I'm most interested in is how well it can "scale" projects, i.e. build large games without ridiculous scenarios like events duplicated in every frame. What kind of programming features are in it...."

There's actually a lot going on for that. You can have multiple event sheets, and call them whenever you want. So you could make an event sheet for your main engine, and at "Start of Frame" for a level you just say "Include Event Sheet: Engine-Sheet" or something.

Looks pretty sweet. I tried to play an example EXE and got a DLL error, probably because I need a patch for DirectX. It would be nice if the error message were more helpful and/or it downloaded the latest DirectX automatically---I've never had trouble opening an MMF app.

When you install construct, it should have prompted you to install the latest DirectX.

Edit: Oh, you're talking about playing an .exe. Well, I guess developers may want to include DirectX in their installation files.