Jel said: Are the GS Team really going to call it a day ? Didn't they secure a $1M loan recently or was that to pay for other things besides development ?
Money usually solves problems... why are updates SLOWER with the additional funding? It doesn't make sense to me. What's with the big delay? Why is it so hard to make a plan and stick with it? And if there's a change, what's the big issue with updating the community.
Imaginary Yodapollo said: "Hi everyone. There won't be an update in September because we're adding Game Center support and we're taking GameSalad out of beta... so we want it to be as close to perfect as we can get it."
...or something like that.
Mobile development is a hobby to some, but it's a business to others. An early launch of Game Center could mean the difference of tens-of-thousands of dollars. If I had chose Unity instead of GameSalad, I'd have iAds, GameCenter, Hyperlinks and many other features. I like GameSalad because the community is great and I think Gendai Games has the right approach to game development... make it more about the design and less about tedious programming. Yet, their community relations is terrible. They're too secretive. It doesn't make sense to me.
iads is not an acceptable 2ndary source of income. You need a good game first. Putting it as free and expecting to make hundreds of dollars is not going to happen unless the game is really good, in which case you should sell it. I think I've made $50 since GS supported iAds, and that was with an app that already had over 300k downloads.
jonmulcahy said: and that was with an app that already had over 300k downloads.
I think that's the problem. Was the app designed for iAds, or was it added later? I'm fairly confident that an iAds version of Arcade Action would outperform the paid version.
The price of Pro is separate issue. I think it hurts them. If I had hyperlinks and iAds in my app, I could use a different business design for my games. One of my house ads, to run when iAds is not available, would be for the The Unofficial GameSalad Textbook. That's pretty good promotion for GameSalad too, as players would see games made by GameSalad and they would have access to a book that makes the software even easier to use.
I see all the action that could be happening. The waiting is frustrating. How long is the community supposed to wait patiently before it becomes stupidity?
RH said: @ Shizane, do you know if they have emailed testers yet? I was hoping that I would get to try it out but I doubt it as I don't particularly have much to offer. (I'm referring to rocket pack)
I haven't received any emails yet no...it looks great though.
From experience, you don't get something for nothing in the business world. Getting 1 million in funding is good but they need to have a really good business plan which shows massive growth in profit over the next 3 years. Because the next update is taking so long, they must be making it ready for a version 1.0 product and I hope with lots of bells and whistles attached and memory leaks fixed. This also needs to be beta tested behind closes doors. If it gives us everything we want then great. If it disappoints then use gs for prototyping and mac games and learn one of the other game systems out there.
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Mobile development is a hobby to some, but it's a business to others. An early launch of Game Center could mean the difference of tens-of-thousands of dollars. If I had chose Unity instead of GameSalad, I'd have iAds, GameCenter, Hyperlinks and many other features. I like GameSalad because the community is great and I think Gendai Games has the right approach to game development... make it more about the design and less about tedious programming. Yet, their community relations is terrible. They're too secretive. It doesn't make sense to me.
Even burger king will give u something free if u have to wait too long
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The price of Pro is separate issue. I think it hurts them. If I had hyperlinks and iAds in my app, I could use a different business design for my games. One of my house ads, to run when iAds is not available, would be for the The Unofficial GameSalad Textbook. That's pretty good promotion for GameSalad too, as players would see games made by GameSalad and they would have access to a book that makes the software even easier to use.
I see all the action that could be happening. The waiting is frustrating. How long is the community supposed to wait patiently before it becomes stupidity?
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Wow, that came out wrong!
A possible update tonight?
oh wait im sorry that was iWeb,Safari, & iTunes
thats odd why dont they call it iSafari
in other news...
Yoda? are ya there?
grrr. frustrating!
Unless you see a yellow post, or a post from one of the mods, don't expect it.
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