How long after learning GS did you release your 1st game?

Ebreeze

6 months
0 games
Still developing my skills

quantumsheep

I think it was about 6 months for me - mainly because publishing to the app store wasn't available when I started! :O

However, I see that as a good thing - like yourself, it meant I had a pretty good understanding of how GS worked.

It's easy to rush to publish, when really more time should be spent learning how to use the tool.

QS

SingleSparq

8 months
After 3 games getting it down to 4-6 months
This is when I have free time kinda work - if I did it full time I could get it down to 2-3 months

aario

its been 5 months for me:

4 different games
+ 2 free versions
+ 1 iPad version
+ 1 utility app done in Xcode

freon1200

i havent published yet, but shootin for maybe next weekend. ive been almost 3 months, watchin a TON of youtube videos. tho till mine is pubilshed, i guess i cant officilly answer XD

BSideGames

One year
6 games

plus
1 other game not made with GS

Asher Scott
B-Side Games
http://bsidegames.weebly.com/

LumpApps

I believe I started in february and have released a percussion app (Pandeiro), a shuffleboard game (Penny Shoel) in English an Dutch, an reflex game (Kung Fu Finger).
I also entered the TOTB contest with Shell Ops and that game is half finished, mostly level design and some tweaking. Last 1.5 months I have been working on Kung Fu Finger 2. The last one will have lots of improvements like a level picker, game center, in app achievements (prepared for gc).
I could work with gs from the beginning although I am getting better at it every day.

DigiChain

From downloading GS software to releasing my first game took about 6 weeks. No templates used and all gfx created by myself. Its extremely fast to pickup and use and I got a lot of my quaestions answered here on the forum.

If interested - that game made in six weeks is here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aimless/id449688749?mt=8

To be honest I've learn't a lot more since, and some of that knowledge would have been very helpfull in making the fist game.
My second game is taking a lot longer though!

MSStudios

Finished my first game 2/3 months after learning GS (spent all of summer learning), however, not being able to publish due to server errors

MSStudios

Digi-chain said:
My second game is taking a lot longer though!

My second game is also taking a lot longer

tenrdrmer

every Game is Different But I published my first Game 3 months after starting with GameSalad.

LumpApps

I forgot to mention I also have a prototype for another game. My first idea. But this game wil be big so I will first publish some other games to try and get some money and time.
I have a script ready for another cool game which I will do after Kung Fu Finger 2 and Shell Ops. I have some bands involved in this for background music to fit the theme. What theme it is is still a secret but I think it will be awesome.
I hope to raise enough money one day to have other people build my games so I can do concepts, artwork and scripts only. And marketing off course.

Mammoth

I made a really simple a game in about 1 month. But I have been making games for sometime before that including and XBLIG

www.mammothinteractive.net

jonmulcahy

took me about 12 weeks or so to create my first game z is for zombie
http://gamesalad.com/blog/2009/11/12/interview-with-z-is-for-zombie-creator-jonathan-mulcahy/

chicop

12 months, half a game done, 0 release...

chicop

quantumsheep said:

It's easy to rush to publish, when really more time should be spent learning how to use the tool.

QS

its been slow process for me but i agree, ive been able to solve more issues on my own now and also understand the feedback given in the forums better. Also its competitive out there and i want to be sure when i release if feel it has a chance to succeed.

gyroscope

Like chicop, it's been a slow process for me also. I've been using GS for over two years now, I'm pretty much certain, yet haven't any finished apps yet. There are quite a few reasons why which I won't bore you with; except to tell you that I've other creative pursuits that tend to "steal my time".

When my first app is ready (end of October, fingers crossed), my other 4 apps should roll out fairly steadily after that. (They are all in different states, though most have at least a quarter of the work done to them each). I'm aiming on having all 5 finished by the end of 2012, i.e just under a year and a half's time. A year and a half is probably too optimistic, but I'll wait and see...

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http://davidgriffinapps.co.uk/

firemaplegames

I released Danger Cats! 11 days after learning about GameSalad. I didn't sleep much

Absolutely life-changing software.

tenrdrmer

firemaplegames said:
I released Danger Cats! 11 days after learning about GameSalad. I didn't sleep much

Absolutely life-changing software.

Showoff!!!

LumpApps

Haha!

OtherGuyStudios

Can none answer my thread or post? Can you get a gamesalad game to run in the bg of your iphone even though you have pressed the home button? e.g. Like an alarm clock does. I need that function. Also does GS support push notifcations?

JamieOneil

Im going to tell the truth, i had only been using it a few weeks, i was rushing.
But i know have learn't from my mistakes.

Grunt

Three months for first game. But I had programing and technical experience. These three months included graphics, animation design etc. I learnt it hands on. i mean i learnt overall software and then each behavior as required and as the project went on. i thought most people would do it like that.

Started 27th April, apple approved 25th july

Mammoth

Ebreeze said:
6 months
0 games
Still developing my skills

I would release a really simple game to go through the process of releasing. Releasing is the hardest part of production. You have to go through that process at least once.

MagoNicolas

firemaplegames said:
I released Danger Cats! 11 days after learning about GameSalad. I didn't sleep much

Absolutely life-changing software.

WOW, Amazing.

My first game was released like 2-3 weeks from when I knew the software, but was a Really BAD Game (Its not longer on the app store, and it was NOT an ePig Game), then release another bad game (Same as the other parenthesis). But when I started with my ePig Games, it took me like 4 month, and thats was like my real game.

Ebreeze

Thanks Mammoth

I'm just curious, what kind of hardships does one experience during a first release?

imissu2

3 weeks, I just published 2 hours ago(70% of the time on debugging).
It's hard after you hit the wall "couldn't publish cause the file error."

Hypnorabbit

Taken about two years learning and learning. And still learning! First App out a few days ago.

Check it out if interested: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/mesoblastic/id476833682?mt=8

JGD

StormyStudio

After 2 weeks:
Released 'contented baby sleep' basically a customisable sound board to send babies to sleep, also had a colour changing relaxin touch screen thing.

Then 3 or 4 months later:
My first full game ''quake builder'

Then a few versions of that , lite etc.

Then spent a good 8 months starting different projects, learning so much more.
Eventually released 'escape artist' which I'd started for the first totb competition.

Then spent 1 week making an iPad version of my contented baby sleep app.

Then many more months slowly working on a big point and click adventure still not finished.

Now about 1 month on my current invaders game

svn

February 20th, 2011-November 8th, 2011. After many prototypes, I decided that I should start small. I am having a good time coming up with levels and new game elements. In fact, just 27 minutes and 34 seconds ago(as of posted time exactly) I built a Pachinko-themed level!

GuaveMedia

I started one month ago and released today my first game with 15 levels.
I worked 4 weeks, each day 12-14 hours on it...

see ya