★★★ Story Book Template ★★★

wayneh001wayneh001 Member Posts: 300
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
★★★ Story Book Template ★★★

Hi Everyone,
Here's a GameSalad Template to build interactive story books. The template is easy to customise, with simple annotated rules throughout. Add more interaction and graphics to create a fully immersive and compelling story book for your users.

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Features
-Page Flip: Forwards and Back page turn effect. (Thank You Tshirtbooth for the pageflip art)
-iPad Portrait Layout
-Fade in and out of Text
-Speech or Music overlay
-Simple One Scene setup
-Easy to customise.
Change the [TotalPages] game
variable to match your number of
pages. Create Pages with the same
names currently in template to
have a book instantly created.

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Comments

  • sdsmith64sdsmith64 Member Posts: 221
    wow ...thats great!! but can the page flip happen from the top right, instead of the bottom right? ...i will buy this.
  • wayneh001wayneh001 Member Posts: 300
    Sure it can. Just rotate the PageFlip Actor 180º. Then the Flip will happen Top left/Right.
  • simo103simo103 Member, PRO Posts: 1,331
    very nice .. awesome price also .. no brainer to buy this and have in the arsenal.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    Yeah this may actually be the first Template I buy. I like this a lot
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  • butterbeanbutterbean Member Posts: 4,315
    Very nice work and cheap too!
  • goliathgoliath Member Posts: 1,440
    purchased!
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  • MagoNicolasMagoNicolas Member, PRO Posts: 2,090
    Amazing! Will buy It SOON! This really Looks great.
  • macewanmacewan Member Posts: 214
    purchased - thank you
  • ChobbifaceChobbiface PRO Posts: 491
    Exactly what I was looking for thanks!
  • DalleZDalleZ Member Posts: 85
    I purchased this amazing template, but for some reason it crashes every time i try to load it on the iPad, anyone else having this problem ?
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    Dont have one to try it on. I did resize and load on the iphone viewer and it runs at around 200Mb of memory. Thats definitely to much for the iphone don't know about the ipad. Although I don't really get why its pulling that much memory since its only 18Mb in total size though.

    @Wayne Any thoughts on this?
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  • wayneh001wayneh001 Member Posts: 300
    OK, we've been looking into this problem, and there does indeed seem to be an issue.

    - There are 2 Animation sates for the PAGE Flip (left & Right) each with 22 frames.
    - GameSalad LOADS ALL ANIMATION FRAMES into memory at once - Not good.
    - There is ONE actor for the page graphics, and ONE for the TEXT.
    - The Graphics are dynamically changed based on the page being viewed.
    - Each page is loaded into memory as the user changes the page.
    - These page graphics never get released from memory.
    - GameSalad Adds all graphics into memory, even if it's already there and retained new retained.

    To sum up, all graphic files used within a GameSalad Projects are retained within a Texture Cache. It seems that, at no point do they [Release, De Alloc] memory or clear out Texture Cache data for un-used Graphics. This is extra-ordinarily bad, and needs to be resolved, as this kind of mis-management of memory is, at best, poor.

    As basic coding practice (C, C++, Obj-C), their are a handful of ways to manage graphics in memory, but it's not for me to advise GameSalad on the management of memory.

    We can only apologise to everyone who has purchased the Template. We will supply you with a coupon/voucher to compensate.

    Wayne
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    wayneh001 said:
    OK, we've been looking into this problem, and there does indeed seem to be an issue.

    - There are 2 Animation sates for the PAGE Flip (left & Right) each with 22 frames.
    - GameSalad LOADS ALL ANIMATION FRAMES into memory at once - Not good.
    - There is ONE actor for the page graphics, and ONE for the TEXT.
    - The Graphics are dynamically changed based on the page being viewed.
    - Each page is loaded into memory as the user changes the page.
    - These page graphics never get released from memory.
    - GameSalad Adds all graphics into memory, even if it's already there and retained new retained.

    To sum up, all graphic files used within a GameSalad Projects are retained within a Texture Cache. It seems that, at no point do they [Release, De Alloc] memory or clear out Texture Cache data for un-used Graphics. This is extra-ordinarily bad, and needs to be resolved, as this kind of mis-management of memory is, at best, poor.

    As basic coding practice (C, C++, Obj-C), their are a handful of ways to manage graphics in memory, but it's not for me to advise GameSalad on the management of memory.

    We can only apologise to everyone who has purchased the Template. We will supply you with a coupon/voucher to compensate.

    Wayne

    Well thats quite unfortunate. I was hoping it was just to much for the iphone. :(

    Is this something GameSalad has hinted they might try to fix? If so I may not even worry about a coupon. Otherwise do we need to request the coupon or are you guys sending those out at some point?

    Thanks for the reply.
    Aaron
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  • UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692
    £10 Voucher sent to all that purchased at £5.

    I hope GS fixes asap because big games with big images are not possible atm :(

    Darren.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    Don't know when you sent those vouchers out but I haven't received anything yet.

    Thanks
    Aaron
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  • sdsmith64sdsmith64 Member Posts: 221
    Darren....with the new build of GameSalad coming and having the Memory leak fixes....would this be good for this template? I would like to use it.
  • UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692
    Yes it is possible it will work a lot better with the upcoming new release.

    Darren.
  • m3arfm3arf Member Posts: 1
    Does new update 0.9.3 fixed your memory problems?

    if YES I will order your template.

    Waiting for your reply.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    m3arf said:
    Does new update 0.9.3 fixed your memory problems?

    if YES I will order your template.

    Waiting for your reply.

    The template is free if you go to their website and email them and no 0.9.3 fixes nothing with this issue.
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  • diegocsdiegocs Member Posts: 531
    spanish translation for your story books (only 20 bucks for 1 word page (arial 12), and an additional 8 bucks per page) email me at diegocs@me.com
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