GS plus Outside development

rePlayrePlay Member Posts: 23
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Has anyone ever created a base game in GS & then asked third party developers to add more functionality to it?
I've been going through many of the templates & demos that I bought or downloaded
For example I want to create a dress up game based on a template, change the graphics & add a few things myself. Then I want a third party developer/programmer to add some things like
Save your character for editing
Save an image that can be used as a backdrop screen

I'm mainly wondering if it might be hard for thirdparty developers to work with a GS base program.
Has anyone experienced this?

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  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    as long as the 3rd party developers can work without gamesalad and add those features. you can't add anything GS can't currently do, it's a closed system, when you "compile" your app, you get an actual app back, not an xcode project.

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  • xyloFUNxyloFUN Member Posts: 1,593
    rePlay (cool nick btw),

    generally, that is not something that you would do. It sounds a little like you wash your car at one car wash and drive to another one for the wax job.

    Unless you know someone who develops with GS, you will get a little lecture and, sad to say, it will be expensive.

    You see, if you bring a few templates and "ideas" to a professional, s/he has to do quite a bit of research to see the "big picture" and anyone that is good at what they do, will charge a minimum of $50 and up. WAY up!

    So it would be better if you started simple and asked here on the forum how to complete additional steps.
    It would also be smart to keep a "note book" for yourself so that you can review certain tasks and learn from how to do them.

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  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    No you cannot modify your game outside of GameSalad. It would probably be cheaper to have someone build your game from scratch in Gs than you start and they finish cause they may spend just as much time figuring how you did things as it would take for them to just build from scratch or one of there own templates
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  • rePlayrePlay Member Posts: 23
    Thanks for all the replies.
    I'm not at the point of compiling yet so I didn't know it makes an actual app & not xCode for me to compile later.

    In that case I might want to start simple.

    @xyloFUN - Thanks it's actually more than a nick :-p
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