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Encapsulating behaviors, making it so you can reuse it in other games.Ī lot of people don't know how to create good artwork or don't have time to, so we'll have a marketplace with art created by vendors. We'll look into doing 2.5D games that will allow you to import models. Being able to do tile maps and different types of spaces. Being able to do sequences and intervals. Things coming up in the wings are things that cater to advanced users. We'll constantly improve it and people will always have the latest version of the tool. We also announced an iPhone preview app that allows you to pair your phone with the GameSalad application on your laptop or desktop, so you can click and beam your game over to your iPhone. The beta announcement was yesterday with Facebook integration. With a layered interface, a larger range of people can use it in different ways. If you're not a programmer, it's hard to tell which is which. Features for more advanced users are hidden, but not that far away.Ī scripting engine mixes composition, behavior, logic, and expressions. Features that are easier to understand are more accessible and visible. Most of the fun games came from film majors! One of the first games was, ironically, Pong Basketball: you can move the paddles everywhere, and try to bounce the ball into the other player's basket. During those four weeks, students were able to build Zelda clones, shooters. GameSalad was used at the University of Texas for a game development class. Right now we're focused on 2D games, so people can make platformers, racers, Breakout, classic arcade games. What kind of games can be produced with GameSalad? there's a blogger that has a GameSalad blog and he's from the UK.

Someone translated entire tutorials into Italian.

We really don't know where these people come from. And we haven't really made a marketing push until now. Since then we had 200 people sign up for alpha, then we opened up and had another 500 sign up and start making games. It's really built for the 99% of players that don't know how to program. GameSalad is an open platform that allows non-programmers to create games for the web, social networks, Facebook, and also for iPhone.

I spoke with Gendai's Michael Agustin about the software, which just went into open beta, and how the development platform will develop in the future.

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The free program allows users to create games using a visual, drag-and-drop interface, and easily move them to the iPhone for testing. If the iPhone platform, which is already lauded for making it easier for small developers to create and publish games, isn't democratic enough for you, Gendai Games is attempting to open up iPhone game development (as well as development for other platforms like Facebook, and, in the future, game consoles like the Wii and DS) to everyone, whether you can program or not, with its GameSalad software.

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