Introducing GameSalad Creator
Game Creation for the Rest of Us!
GameSalad is the world's most advanced game development tool for non-programmers. From an easy to use logic and physics system, to a visual based interface, and even the means to share your games to the iPhone, Desktop, and Web - GameSalad provides everything you need to get your game from concept to execution. Simply download the tool to a your Mac, install, and start making games!
Not a programmer? Not a problem
Made for the 99% of us that don't code
You know what you want. You know how your game is supposed to play. But how do you get those ideas from your head to something you interact with on screen? GameSalad was created to help you do just that - without a single line of computer code!
Extensive behavior library
Creating advanced interactions is easily within the reach of game designers of all levels. With behaviors, manipulating data is as simple as typing a number. Even complex behaviors such as handling particle systems or modifying physics is handled through the behavior system.
Drag and Drop
It's so easy to add and remove art and sound assets. Simply drag an image or audio file from your Finder window into GameSalad and it immediately appears in your project. Drag in an image of a car from Finder. Drag an accelerate behavior onto your car actor. Drag your car actor into your scene. Before you know it, you've created an auto racing game! With GameSalad, game creation really is that easy.
Oh, but you are a programmer?
GameSalad has a lot to offer even if you have a programming background. GameSalad will never give you a syntax error or stop working because you misplaced a semi-colon. What's better, your finished game can be published to multiple platforms. There wasn't a single API you needed to learn or framework that you needed to add to make the game work; it just did!
Edit your games visually
Compose your games
All your game's a stage, and you are the director. GameSalad employs the concepts of actors and scenes, just like a movie. Move, rotate, and resize actors in a scene by dragging them with your mouse. Frame your shots in camera mode. You control every aspect of how the camera follows your actors.
Efficient asset organization
Organize your ever growing list of actors with a few keystrokes. Using GameSalad's Tag feature, these components can be labelled to whatever makes sense, allowing you to see only what you want to see in an uncluttered and simple view.
Get around quickly
Navigate easily between the various integrated game editors within GameSalad Creator. Need to get back to the scene editor you were just using? Simply press the "Back" button at the upper left of the tool. Need to get back to the top level of your project? Just press the "Home" button. GameSalad utilizes navigation controls similar to what you'd find on your web browser - meaning anyone who knows how to make their way around the Internet can find their way around GameSalad!
Game creation without the wait
Tweak your game while it's running
Reposition and tweak your game elements even while the game is running! There is no need to stop and restart your game as everything is happening within GameSalad.
Test your ideas in seconds
So you have an idea for a unique platform jump mechanic that might be crazy enough to work. Simply drag in some enemies, apply your gravity defying jump behaviors, and play! Making changes is just as fast as you can quickly jump between the game preview and the various editors.
Preview immediately without compiling
Test the game immediately from inside the tool itself. Need to see how it runs on your iPhone? Just launch the GameSalad Viewer app for iPhone and play your game within seconds. Need to test how the game plays on the web? Simply press the Web Preview button and your game loads inside your web browser!
Fully integrated Physics and Logic. Why? Because we love you.
Physics in a box!
Based on the advanced Box2D physics engine - used in games such as Fantastic Contraption, Rolando, and Crayon Physics. Add acceleration, gravity, spin, collide, or density for an additional level of realism. With this fully integrated physics system, the physics rules you set up for your game will work exactly as you want it to, regardless of the platform on which it's played.
Collisions
With the brand new Collision System, you can control how different objects physically react to each other within the game world. Create a basketball game and make the ball bounce high against a concrete floor, but not to much against the grass. Using the flexible Collision System, create triggers that detect the ball swooshing through the rim to increase the score!
Advanced rule editor
The rule editor turns programming concepts such as functions, booleans, and scripts into an easy to use, visual based system. Need to control how fast your main character can run? Just create a new Rule that checks his speed and drag in a Constrain Attribute Behavior to control the maximum speed.
Functions, Expressions, and Attributes. Oh my!
Create, access, and modify data in your game like you would in a normal programming environment. If you need to access variables, such as how much health is remaining or the score of the player, just set or retrieve it by dragging and dropping the behavior. If you need to create advanced mathematical expressions using references and functions like cosine, sine, absolute, or square root; they're all available in GameSalad's powerful expression system.
Platform independent publishing.
Share games on the Web instantly
Share your game with the entire world with a single press of a button. Games are uploaded to Gamesalad.com, an online community created to support amateur and professional game developers. From there, embed your game in Web pages and even share them over popular social networking sites like Facebook! Upload as many games as you want and have them played by anyone anywhere, all for free!
iPhone/iPod Touch
With millions of devices sold worldwide, the most popular handheld in the world is now your captive audience! Once your game is ready to be shared, use the GameSalad submission system to convert it into the necessary Xcode compatible file format in order to share it on the iPhone App Store. Requires subscription to the GameSalad Membership Program.
And more to come!
This is just the beginning. GameSalad Creator was developed to be platform independent. What that means is that you will see games made with GameSalad across more and more platforms in the future. The best part is that a game developed for one platform, can easily be made to work on a completely different one. Break down the barriers of game development with GameSalad!
