Greetings: Are Gamers turning over a new "leaf"?

HireduHiredu Member Posts: 6
edited November -1 in Introductions
Hello all! I'm wet behind the ears I'm embarking on a voyage to navigate the GS lingo and tools. This looks like a fun group, and I'm excited to join!

I'd like to make an iPhone game that stars a hero firefighter jumping from the firefighter's trampoline to save residents from the fuming perils of high-rises aflame. I have yet to learn about how to access graphics, sound & music royalty free, so if anyone has good suggestions (or things to avoid) I'm all ears.

I love the name GameSalad! I love salads, but gamers are notorious junk food eaters. Are gamers turning over a new leaf here?

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  • iMuseiMuse Member Posts: 80
    Welcome to GS! Good places to start would be to read the sticky's, visit the support section of the site and look over the youtube tutorials made by tshirtbooth in the gamesalad cookbook http://www.youtube.com/user/GameSaladCookbook.

    Now having said that i think most here are still junk food eaters except for one certain sheep, I suspect he eats leafs or at least something green! :P
  • AsymptoteellAsymptoteell Member Posts: 1,362
    Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome! Enjoy the software and the forums! Make good apps and don't make apps that you don't think are perfect.

    Asymptoteell
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    The Wiki also has a ton of information:
    http://gamesalad.com/wiki/

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  • MotherHooseMotherHoose Member Posts: 2,456
    Hiredu said:
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    I love the name GameSalad! I love salads, but gamers are notorious junk food eaters. Are gamers turning over a new leaf here?

    well developers try to stay Healthy and Active... ;D

    Free things... (alas many things are free for personal use ... not commercial!)
    you can take pictures of things and use them...
    you can draw on your devices and email to yourself...
    you can draw on paper and scan into your computer..
    you can make your own music and sounds...
    --or about a thousand free sounds (some need creator crediting)
    http://soundbible.com/royalty-free-sounds-1.html
    Wiki Commons has many Public Domain images plus some free-use with credit to creator.

    I usually don't do in-depth graphics... just placeholders (correct size)... till I get the code done.
    (Though colorScheme is one of the first things I do do!)

    MH
  • peachpellenpeachpellen Member Posts: 977
    http://techority.com/2010/10/08/free-resources-for-app-developers/

    The above is a list I put together some time back; openclipart and cooltext (the lesser is for graphics while the latter is for buttons and text) are awesome, but the whole list is good :)

    Welcome to GameSalad! A lovely first post :)
  • DrGlickertDrGlickert Member Posts: 1,135
    My first few hours of GS was watching the videos posted by GameSaladCookBook on YouTube. I'd follow along with TShirtBooth. Then, I started to write down my game idea and began what I could, started posts on the forums and followed everyones ideas. Now, my game is about 50% complete!

    I love salads, too!

    And, I agree with Jon, the GS wiki has a link on the right hand side called Sprites & Sounds. It's pretty much links to sites that have either free or cheap music, sounds, and artwork for your games.

    Also, if you really want to splurge, you can put an add out on craigslist and find some starving artists and musicians to fill the gap between what you're good at and what you suck at (in my case, I can't even draw stick figures and I don't know the white keys from the black ones on a keyboard) :-)

    Good luck!

    Welcome to the 'Salad!
  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    Firstly, welcome! :D
    Hiredu said:
    I love the name GameSalad! I love salads, but gamers are notorious junk food eaters. Are gamers turning over a new leaf here?

    I think that games are heading towards the casual space at a rapid rate! The market for people with iphones is a lot bigger than people with iphones that are traditional 'gamers'.

    Those traditional gamers, old dinosaurs like me into junk food, are still important of course. But the salad people are taking over!

    Also:



    QS :D

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  • osucowboy18osucowboy18 Member Posts: 1,307
    Welcome to GS! Look forward to seeing what you can do. If you need any help, just post on the forums. There's always someone around to help 24/7. See ya around.

    - Alex
  • HireduHiredu Member Posts: 6
    Thanks for your help, all!
    I guess I'll soon figure out what stickies are, and what free sprites I should use, which I should pay for, and what I'll need to hire for.

    I usually don't do in-depth graphics... just placeholders (correct size)... till I get the code done.
    (Though colorScheme is one of the first things I do do!)
    MH

    Good call MH, I was headed down that path too.

    Love the clip QS!

    BTW I like junk food too (I'm not an alien)...but I will admit, after Anatomy and Nutrition classes in college and seeing what junk food does to your body... I must say burgers never tasted the same. Maybe I should have taken the blue pill ;)
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