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1. How do I create a new scene?
2. How do I edit how a scene looks?(background color, size, etc.)
3. How do I create a new actor?
4. How do I create a new actor tag?
5. How do I add an image to an actor?
6. How do I add an actor to the scene?
7. How do I scale an actor in a scene?
8. How do I rotate an actor in a scene?
9. How do I create an attribute(variable)?
10. How do I change an actor's own attributes?
11. How do I use a rule?
12. How do I design my game?

1. How do I know which movement related behavior to use?
2. How do I create paddle (pong-style) player movement?
3. How do I make an actor follow the mouse?
4. How do make a drag and drop movement?
5. How do I make an actor move in a perfect circle?
6. How do I make an actor move in a wave motion?
7. How do I make an actor pace back and forth?
8. How do I stop my actor from bouncing off the ground/wall?
9. How do I make an actor jump?
10. How do I move and stop an actor with animation for each state?
11. How do I make an actor roll uphill against gravity?
12. How do I do controlled movement with the keyboard and accelerometer?

1. How can I add Gravity to a scene?
2. How do I change the bounciness of an actor collision?
3. How do I make a blast effect?

1. How do I create a button?
2. How do I make a joystick control?
3. How do I make my game to use the iPhone/iPod Touch default controls?
4. How do I make use of the iPhone/iPod Touch accelerometer?
5. How do I make use of multi-touch?
6. How do I make controls to turn music on and off?
7. How do I trigger an actor using another actor?

1. How do I create, display and add to a player score?
2. How do I display a static HUD on a scrolling scene?
3. How do I create and display player lives?
4. How do I make a health bar? (by QuantumSheep)
5. How do I have multiple hit areas on the same actor? (by Tshirtbooth)
6. Adding Bars 101 (by JGary)
7. How to create a minimap? (by Toby)

1. How do I create a wall?
2. How do I create a collectible item like a coin or food pellet?

1. How do I create a card flip effect without animation? (by JackieMac)
2. How do I create a page flip animation? (by tshirtbooth)
3. How do I do animation based on direction?
4. How do I create images for animation?
5. How can I have a player change the color of an image during the game?
6. How can I fade an image in and out? (Title screens, etc)
7. How do I make an image blink?
8. How do I make a drawing system?

1. How do I use attributes(game, actor, and/or scene)?
2. How do I track that an actor is over another?
3. How do I make one actor follow or chase another?
4. How do I make an actor "invincible"? (After spawning a player actor, etc)
5. How do I make actors smaller based on their position on the screen?
6. How can I add functionality to pause the game?
7. How do I make a game where I can select grid squares?
8. How do I optimize my game for the iPhone?
9. How do I modify difficulty based on intervals of score or time?
10. How do I use the expression editor?
11. How do I have the Timer behavior use variable speeds?
12. How to make a timer. (By tshirtbooth)
13. How do I count actors in the scene? (By utopiangames)

1. How do I make a platformer game? (By firemaplegames)
   1. Tutorial #1: Basic Left and Right Movement
   2. Tutorial #2: Solid Platforms - Part 1
   3. Tutorial #3: Ducking

1. How do I support autorotation?

1. How do I develop and publish to the app Store?
2. How to make one link to all your games in itunes. (by tshirtbooth)

1. How do I export my game?
2. How do I update my game on the GameSalad site?
3. How do I make a screenshot for the game I am uploading to the website?