It's kinda cool to open a 2D game and look around it in 3D

Windows WebView2 v145 is now rolling out and it properly supports choosing the high-performance GPU on dual-GPU systems (with C3 r467+). Been a long time coming but great to see that finally resolved!

I reported this bug and it was fixed quickly, so credit to the GameInput team for being responsive!

Tried to do some coding with the modern Windows GameInput API, and my Xbox One Elite controller appears as two devices, and there doesn't appear to be any way to detect that they are the same physical device. So GameInput is useless for multiple gamepads...?

I find it kind of fascinating the extent to which in a mature codebase, each file is so finely crafted line-by-line. This image is the "blame" history for a core Construct runtime file, with each line a different color for the last commit that changed it - rotated 90 degrees to fit better here.

Now shipping 3D model support in the latest beta. Give it a spin and let us know how it goes!

WebGPU's requirement that writeBuffer() must use a size that is a multiple of 4 bytes is kind of annoying when dealing with 16-bit indices. Not an issue in WebGL so something of a porting tripwire there.

Working on a Construct feature that should hopefully be in the next beta. Simple in principle but some complicated details.

Graphics driver bugs are such a nightmare - Construct now has to have its own internal GPU blacklist for WebGPU which covers Adreno 7xx, Intel Gen7 and Intel Gen9 GPUs due to various driver bugs, and also disables Safari entirely due to currently being entirely unusable there. Ugh.

Nearly 4 months after the release of iOS 26, according to StatCounter Apple have still only deployed it to ~16% of devices. Seems like an unusual delay to rolling it out - my best guess is liquid glass has become a total fiasco and Apple know it.

It's time for our annual review of the highlights of the year! The 2025 year in review blog post covers many of the new features and improvements, examples, web technology improvements and more from the past year. We've been busy and so there's plenty to cover! www.construct.net/en/blogs/con...

This is a fun write up of writing an even/odd check with 4 billion if statements 😛 andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/upda...

Interesting to see all the work Valve is doing with Windows and x86-on-ARM emulation. Perhaps a future Steam Deck will have an ARM chip and rely on emulation for compatibility. Steam Frame could be a proving ground for that. www.theverge.com/report/82065...

The experimental Web Install API is intriguing. It's a necessary step to make the web platform be able to act more like an app store, especially if web apps can install other web apps. blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/20...

JPEG XL in Chromium update: “[...] we would welcome contributions to integrate a performant and memory-safe JPEG XL decoder in Chromium. In order to enable it by default in Chromium we would need a commitment to long-term maintenance.” groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...

The new Steam Machine looks pretty cool. Going to order one and make sure Construct's Linux exports work on it - as it already supports the Steam Deck guessing it will be fine, but worth giving it a spin!

Our stats show 78% of all Construct users are now getting the WebGPU renderer in the editor. Pretty good support for a brand-new graphics technology! We have had a bunch of issues caused by buggy graphics drivers, but that's nothing new, and probably to be expected with a major change like that.

I revisited our Steam Overlay workaround, and it looks like Valve changed something about the overlay, and now it renders correctly over transparency?! I think this means unless something else comes up, we should be able to have the in-game overlay supported again...

Thoroughly unimpressed with this AI generated security review that submitted a useless PR that would have completely broken the code: github.com/AshleyScirra...

Firefox 141 is now out, with support for WebGPU on Windows. Seems to work great for me!

It's nice to try and help open-source projects by writing good bug reports, so when I ran in to a regression in zip.js, I made a minimal repro, found the version it regressed and identified the possible commit. Hopefully that makes the fix easy! Filed the issue here: github.com/gildas-lorme...

Publishing to the web has to be the future. The App Store rules are hostile and punitive.

Mozilla put out a blog post about shipping WebGPU in Firefox 141. And with Safari '26 shipping it later this fall, the API will be available ~everywhere! Great to see WebGPU support reaching more people! mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/s...

Sheesh, these notifications on Windows 11. I've never visited Yahoo - and yet out of the blue, Microsoft Edge prompts me to pin Yahoo to the taskbar? WTF?

We built a new tool to recover corrupt ZIP files to help customers with corrupt projects. Find out more about how it works, including a deep-dive on the ZIP file format and how the tool works, in Ashley's blog: www.construct.net/en/blogs/ash... And remember to check your backups!

Completely out of the blue, Windows 11 just showed me this notification. This seems highly dubious - isn't Microsoft fighting antitrust cases about this sort of thing at the moment?

@benhouston3d.com Hey, would you be able to add a measurement of isFallbackAdapter for the WebGPU stats here? web3dsurvey.com/webgpu It's kind of the equivalent of WebGL 'major performance caveat'

Looks like Firefox and Safari are both soon going to be shipping WebGPU support on by default - been a long time coming but great to get to this point! Thinking about making it the default in Construct, but there's still a couple of known issues.

This write-up of a 20 year old bug in GTA is a great analysis of how hard both long-term maintenance and knowing who to blame are with bug reports: cookieplmonster.github.io/2025/04/23/g... A Windows 11 update broke a game that ran fine for 20 years - is it Windows' fault? It's not so simple!

The new 'Synth sunset' example in the latest Construct beta release, exported from Construct Animate as WebM AV1 @ 60 FPS. Try it for yourself: animate.construct.net/beta#open=sy...

Great write-up on the nightmarish state of Linux app compatibility: jangafx.com/insights/lin... I ended up running in to all this with Construct's Linux/Steam Deck exporter. There's a good summary there with what look like sensible suggestions to fix it (if it ever will be fixed...)

It's just an early prototype so far, but got TypeScript type checking and precise autocomplete working in the Construct editor! Hopefully will be ready for the next release cycle.

TIL the full Construct manual printed out runs to over 1000 pages 🫠 It shows we do the hard work to write comprehensive documentation though!

New blog post - The reality of long-term software maintenance from the maintainer's perspective: www.construct.net/en/blogs/ash... Why submitting 10,000 lines of code to a project might not be as generous as it first appears!

Chrome 133 (rolling out now) has a small but important new API: moveBefore() allows moving DOM elements without resetting them (reloading iframes, resetting scroll etc). Solves a long-time pain point for dynamic web apps! Now used in Construct too. chromestatus.com/feature/5135...

An absurd and ancient part of Windows is there's only support for a few possible icon overlays in Explorer. Only the first few registry keys under ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers are used - ordered alphabetically. So different apps fight to have the most spaces at the start to come first 🫠

Updating Ubuntu seems to randomly change the Java configuration - one machine installed a new Java version and made it the default, while another doing the same upgrade apparently just fully uninstalled Java. Not too hard to fix afterwards but... wtf? Is it a bug?

I'm a bit disappointed with the development of WebGPU so far - in Chrome there's a ~7x performance regression over WebGL that hasn't been fixed for well over a year, display corruption on Adreno 7XX GPUs, and a couple other issues that block us enabling by default in Construct.

Office PC decided to give up today. *sigh* At least it's a chance to order the latest kit again!

Why yes, we spent a delightful morning perusing fine art, sipping wine and eating hors d'oeuvres. Perhaps you should too? This is such a unique take on Doom, and made in Construct 3! bobatealee.itch.io/doom-the-gal...

Proud of what the team achieved this year!

Emailed Gabe Newell about the Steam Overlay. Worth a shot.

Windows 11 now requires 64-bit processors (no 32-bit edition), and such processors have been around for 20 years. Is it time to drop support for Windows 32-bit builds? Seems like nothing needs them any more.

I'm often an Apple critic, but getting a code signing certificate for Windows is awful - loads of bureaucracy, special software, now even special USB hardware is required. By comparison Apple's $99/yr developer fee also covers signing apps, and is much easier overall.

It looks like Google are quietly trying to get rid of the software rendering fallback for WebGL. This could end up anywhere on a scale from "meh, fine" to "total disaster". Other WebGL developers might want to weigh in! See my post to blink-dev about it. groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...

Try out our new Steam Deck support!

Concerning talk of splitting Chrome from Google - doesn't seem like it would be good for Chrome, and seems like the wrong target too: it's easy enough to install a different browser, but changing phone OS is very difficult. Shouldn't any antitrust focus be on Android?

Thrilled to be here on BlueSky! Excited to work together with you all to drive change and unlock the future of the web and web apps. Let’s make it happen! 🤘

Been working on a whole series of upgrades for Construct's own macOS exporter - amounts to almost a complete overhaul. Includes tools to help with signing and notarization. Should make macOS exporting much better. Coming in next release cycle!

Did you know? If you need the smallest, fastest loading web export possible, an empty Construct project exported to HTML5 with full optimization is just 381 KB!