Game Jams and Hack-a-thons are like National Novel Writing Month. But for games. And shorter. Game Jams and Hack-a-thons are events where participants gather with a goal of building complete products together. Game Jams focus on games. Hack-a-thons are more generally about creating an app. We’ll use the phrase Game Jam for both in the …
The results are in and we have 3 winners for the 2022 GameSalad Creation Challenge! This year’s judging was tough with a number of close calls, but winners were needed and winners were selected! Games were judged on originality, design, and lack of bugs! There were High School and Middle School divisions as well as …
At GameSalad we’re never gonna give up looking for the next big thing in gaming. With the increasing popularity of hyper casual gaming, we firmly believe that first person 1D is the next dimension in gaming! Your prototypical hyper-causal gamer are constantly looking for new addictive, easy-to-play experiences. With GameSalad First Person 1D technology, we …
Happy Valentine’s Day! Looking for a last minute Valentine’s Gift? Is quality optional? Let an AI (OpenAI’s GPT-3) generate a valentine’s poem for you! How does it work? This GameSalad game makes a request to Glitch REST API. The REST API makes a call to OpenAI with a prompt in the form of: “A [type] …
For National Poetry Month, GameSalad’s Tan Tran shows you how to build virtual poetry fridge magnets.
Kelsea Barker, a 16-year-old girl decided to pursue her interests in coding and entrepreneurship by building her first app in GameSalad! Learn more about her story: https://www.ksl.com/article/37349079/utah-teen-builds-successful-app https://www.deseret.com/2016/4/8/20586191/16-year-old-st-george-girl-designs-free-gaming-app#kelsea-barker-is-the-16-year-old-creator-of-hue
Watch as GameSalad’s Tan Tran demonstrates how to estimate the value of Pi using the Monte Carlo Method with GameSalad.
In 2012 Braydon Coyer was teen who was not confident in his ability to program, but wanted to build a video game! He release his first iOS GameSalad Game, Penguin Pounce! and received 150,000 downloads. Since them he’s been a leading community member on GameSalad’s forums and an entrepreneur contributing to GSHelper, the leading GameSalad …
This month, please meet the founders of MySTEM Academy. Maria Yamanaka and Marcel Bergerman’s goal is to inspire kids in STEM and prepare them to become future innovators and leaders. Their project-based, hands-on programs allow kids to work collaboratively to solve challenges. When the world went remote, so did MySTEM Academy’s summer camps: including an …
Our Co-Founder Tan made a video where he builds a social distancing model in GameSalad. Give it a watch and decide if it’s something you want to share with your students. A quote from Tan at the end of the video: “So many of us have been asked to stay at home and distance ourselves …
