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But yes, they were made with Construct 2.",{"id":57,"by":10,"text":58},"6985905","I made the basic structure with scirra's construct 2 ( www.scrirra.com ), but I made the rest with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. To learn those, I got some books. O'reilly has some…",{"value":60,"source":51,"evidence":61},"JavaScript",[62,65],{"id":63,"by":10,"text":64},"6985911","It is mostly made with JavaScript. I really liked making apps on Windows 8 because I can use languages I already knew from making websites.",{"id":66,"by":10,"text":67},"6985918","I used JavaScript to make the apps. The only thing that was difficult about getting approved was making it support touch and keyboard inputs. 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It's made without any programming using this app: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.scirra.com\u002F ... still more games than i have done though :-P",{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"6986642","jebus989","It's worth noting that this isn't a cool github account someone's turned up of a surprisingly young programmer, it's a serial publicist [0-2] using primarily a game creation…",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"6986758","zachlatta","Hey, I'm around your age and very impressed with what you're doing. It's neat that you've released so many apps this year. As others have noted, it looks like you're using some…",{"value":137,"source":79,"evidence":138},"Copies others' characters and assets",[139,143],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"6986287","MJR","This doesn't detract what the fact that you had the initiative and drive to complete 30 different games. 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