If this is your first time with GameSalad, this is a good page to start your experience. We will begin with making a game using a template, where everything from actors to sounds are already ready for you to use.

The first step is to start GameSalad. A dropdown list of templates should appear.

Select 'Space Rocks - No Behaviors' [1] from the list of templates and click the 'Choose' button [2].

Double Click on the Space Rocks Scene[3] to open the Scene Editor.

Drag and Drop 'Accelerate' [4] from the Behaviors list to the 'Player' Actor (blue spaceship) [5]. For something more advanced, you can double click the actor to modifiy the behaviors like changing the direction of acceleration.

Push Play [6]. You have now made a game, maybe not a fun game, but a game none the less.

Tip: For this tutorial, there are 2 ways to drag and drop behaviors to an actor. Dropping a behavior onto the actor in list of actors will add the behavior to all instances of the actor.

Dropping a behavior onto an actor in the scene will only add that behavior to that instance of the actor.

Continue with Quickstart Part 2 for something a little more advanced.