Project Editor

• Manage multiple scenes and actors
• Edit the title, description, and instructions of the game
• Upload your game to the GameSalad online portal
• Organize Actors with Actor Tags

Scene Editor

• Drag-and-drop image and audio files from Finder into the Media Browser
• Manage images and audio assets through the Media Broswer
• Drag-and-drop actors onto the scene as instances of the prototype
• Drag-and-drop behaviors onto actor prototypes and instances
• Preview the scene in play mode and edit it at the same time
• Add, delete, and modify game attributes to be shared among all actors in the project
• Modify scene attributes, such as size, gravity, and wrap
• Organize actors into re-orderable layers
• Actor prototype management
• Position, scale and rotate actor instances in the scene

Targets

• Web
• iPhone (see roadmap)

Asset File Formats

• Audio
  • ogg vorbis
• Graphics
  • png
  • jpg
  • (Other formats supported but are not optimized for web-based games)

Devices

• Keyboard
• Mouse
• Accelerometer - iPhone capabilities

Actor Editor

Behavior Editor

• Drag-and-drop behaviors to easily modify your actor
• Customize behaviors with static and variable values and rules
• Combine basic behaviors to make more complex behaviors
• Reuse behaviors or groups of behaviors in the current actor or other actors
• Rename behavior and rule labels
• Reorder behaviors
• Collapse and expand behaviors to expose only what you're working on
• Add notes to the rule editor so others (or you!) can understand it

Types of Behaviors

• Motion behaviors to adjust speed and acceleration, linearly and angularly
• Attribute modification behaviors to set or constrain attribute values
• Container behaviors to group other behaviors to run under certain circumstances
• Continuous behaviors that have specific tasks that always run, such as displaying text or controlling a camera
• Action behaviors that have specific tasks that happen once, such as destroying the current actor, spawning other actors, or animating the actor with different images

Actor Attributes

• Adjustable size and position
• Adjustable color using a color wheel
• Adjustable transparency color or image
• Adjustable image displayed for the actor, set by dragging and dropping
• Motion Attributes
  • Initial rotation without behaviors
  • Initial motion without behaviors
• Physics Attributes
  • Interaction with other actors with friction, density, restitution, and collision settings
  • Adjustable collision group to collide with only certain actors
  • Rectangular or Circular collision shapes
  • Allow the actor to be affected by gravity
• Ability to add new custom attributes