GameSalad 0.9.3 - Game Center is Here!
Yodapollo
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Hey, everybody!
It's here! GameSalad 0.9.3 Beta is live and ready for download. At GameSalad, we aim for each update to best all previous versions of the Creator. We want it faster, more reliable, and with more features than ever before. I can say that 0.9.3 definitely meets those criteria.
With GameSalad 0.9.3 Beta, we introduce a couple of new features that our community has been asking for, as well as our largest single release improvement ever, in terms of Creator memory management, performance, and stability.
Ladies and gentlemen, GameSalad 0.9.3 Beta is here!
Game Center Leaderboards
At long last, Game Center has come to GameSalad. Our newest Professional Feature allows users to integrate Game Center leaderboards into their games, thus providing their players a whole new way to share GameSalad-powered games with others.
In addition to including the trio of Game Center behaviors (Login, Post Score, Show Leaderboard), we’re also including a new template, specifically for guiding developers through the best practices of Game Center integration.
Commenting Out Behaviors
In GameSalad 0.9.3, we’ve included a new usability feature for our behavior system. We call this commenting out behaviors. The feature presents itself as a simple on/off switch on rule, group, and behavior boxes within the Actor Editor. This small interface change provides profound usability improvements that could save developers hours of building time. By commenting out behaviors, users that, in effect, unit test their actor’s behavior systems, as well as future proof their game for multiple platforms by simply commenting out the controls that do not apply to a certain target.
Improved Display Text
We’ve provided some much needed improvements for our Display Text behavior with the new update. Display Text now fully supports left/right/center alignments and properly supports text wrapping.
Reliability and Performance
As states above, GameSalad 0.9.3 Beta signifies the largest improvement in terms of Creator performance, memory management, and stability in a single release. Creator slow downs and crashes are virtually a thing of the past. With these dramatic improvements it’s easy to remember why we all do this: making games is fun!
Bonus Material
With this update, we’ve also included a number of new templates, mostly dealing with functionality – Game Center integration, Commenting Out Behaviors, and App Rating Process. These templates are not full games and designed to show functionality and best practices in a more useful way.
In addition, we’ll be posting a series of blog posts, written by the head of our internal game team, Billy Garretsen, providing a more in-depth look at these new templates and the latest features found in GameSalad 0.9.3 Beta.
What To Do Now:
Download GameSalad Creator 0.9.3
See What’s New in 0.9.3 plus Release Notes
Game Center Leaderboards Tutorial
Commenting Out Behaviors Tutorial
App Rating Tutorial
Display Text Tutorial
It's here! GameSalad 0.9.3 Beta is live and ready for download. At GameSalad, we aim for each update to best all previous versions of the Creator. We want it faster, more reliable, and with more features than ever before. I can say that 0.9.3 definitely meets those criteria.
With GameSalad 0.9.3 Beta, we introduce a couple of new features that our community has been asking for, as well as our largest single release improvement ever, in terms of Creator memory management, performance, and stability.
Ladies and gentlemen, GameSalad 0.9.3 Beta is here!
Game Center Leaderboards
At long last, Game Center has come to GameSalad. Our newest Professional Feature allows users to integrate Game Center leaderboards into their games, thus providing their players a whole new way to share GameSalad-powered games with others.
In addition to including the trio of Game Center behaviors (Login, Post Score, Show Leaderboard), we’re also including a new template, specifically for guiding developers through the best practices of Game Center integration.
Commenting Out Behaviors
In GameSalad 0.9.3, we’ve included a new usability feature for our behavior system. We call this commenting out behaviors. The feature presents itself as a simple on/off switch on rule, group, and behavior boxes within the Actor Editor. This small interface change provides profound usability improvements that could save developers hours of building time. By commenting out behaviors, users that, in effect, unit test their actor’s behavior systems, as well as future proof their game for multiple platforms by simply commenting out the controls that do not apply to a certain target.
Improved Display Text
We’ve provided some much needed improvements for our Display Text behavior with the new update. Display Text now fully supports left/right/center alignments and properly supports text wrapping.
Reliability and Performance
As states above, GameSalad 0.9.3 Beta signifies the largest improvement in terms of Creator performance, memory management, and stability in a single release. Creator slow downs and crashes are virtually a thing of the past. With these dramatic improvements it’s easy to remember why we all do this: making games is fun!
Bonus Material
With this update, we’ve also included a number of new templates, mostly dealing with functionality – Game Center integration, Commenting Out Behaviors, and App Rating Process. These templates are not full games and designed to show functionality and best practices in a more useful way.
In addition, we’ll be posting a series of blog posts, written by the head of our internal game team, Billy Garretsen, providing a more in-depth look at these new templates and the latest features found in GameSalad 0.9.3 Beta.
What To Do Now:
Download GameSalad Creator 0.9.3
See What’s New in 0.9.3 plus Release Notes
Game Center Leaderboards Tutorial
Commenting Out Behaviors Tutorial
App Rating Tutorial
Display Text Tutorial
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No, the commenting out is not Masala. Commenting Out was just a usability feature we wanted to include. Masala is much bigger and should be part of the next release.
--Yodapollo
Commenting Out Behaviors- I LOVE THIS!!
No more pinwheel of death. Now we can be in the zone for a long time.
Display Text is Fixed- Cool!
Game Center - An absolutely required option and now we have it!
:-)
""You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike." - Zork temp domain http://spidergriffin.wix.com/alphaghostapps
Heh... now I have to figure out a workaround... and then update approximately 140 actors.
Also, there might be an issue with fixed rotation. That seems to have been ignored. The bullets from the fire gun in BOT started to curve, as there was a rotate behavior on the actor. That rotate behavior should not have been on the bullet. I didn't notice it because fixed rotation was overriding the rotation behavior. But now, the projectiles started rotating.
You Must have a WEsbite, and make a Special page like:
http://www.epiggames.com/ePigDashRate (Doesn't exits now)
Then, you just redirect that page to your Rating Link Once your app is approved and the Id is Assigned!
Cheers.
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You Put a Timer, After 2 Sconds, log in.
Will That Work?
I don't want to Add a Log in button.
Cheers.
-josh
I dotn see it in GameSalad and i want that link
Cheers-
Now... if we could only have custom shapes for physics, we'd be ready to produce some real diamonds
When I test my game in the Preview within GameSalad it crashes once I start the main actor moving in the first level.
It is fine when I test it on a device.
What should I do?
~CTM
When I test my game in the Preview within GameSalad it crashes once I start the main actor moving in the first level.
It is fine when I test it on a device....
....The above problem I had was to do with playing a sound at a specific time. I am now playing the sound 0.01 seconds later and the game is no longer crashing in Preview. However, I am not hearing any sounds at all in Preview.
Volume on the mac is up etc. and the sounds play fine when testing on a device.
Is anyone having any similar problems?
at Gamecenter IDon GS behaviour I have put my bundle i.e. "com.marcosriffel.mygamecenter ID" it is correct? or the ID is just "mygamecenterID"?
www.marcosriffel.com
Hope that helps,
QS
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1. read it.
2. opened gamesalad.
3. said to install update.
4. While I was waiting, I read the comments here.
5. finished installing.
6. opened up my project.
7. opened up a scene.
8. opened up an actor.
9. Said to my computer: "Oh S*** that's fast!" and jumped a half inch out of my chair.
Thank you Gamesalad wizard! Our human sacrifices clearly have pleased you.
Asymptoteell