★★★ Why We Love GS ★★★

UtopianGames

Chris was trying out some new art styles today and we decided to make a game in a day (our last one ended up at #17 Red Ball of Goo) so i spent an hour prototyping the gameplay and realised how lucky we are to have GS.

No other engine can take an idea to a playable game in less time than GS...it's speed is amazing and that's why we love it.





The video below is a demo i made in less than an hour, i will update when we have the art and music put together.



Nearly the final version below...



Darren.

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JPickard

I agree. If I didn't find GameSalad I couldn't even pretend to know how to start making my game. THANKS gang!

Braydon_SFX

Very nice, Darren.
It looks amazing, and the concept of the graphics are sure to pull people in.
I would be cool if you had a 'bad bird' in there, if you tapped it, it might reset the game.
Just a thought.

Keep it at!

Braydon

JPickard

What's the name of the game? Crow Magnet? As The Crow Flies? Raven Mad?

UtopianGames

Umm not sure...i like your names, any more ideas for a name guys?

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tenrdrmer

as always Chris puts out some amazing artwork. Looks great guys!!!

Braydon_SFX

I like Raven Mad. As I am not a good person with names, I cannot give you a good opinion.

StormyStudio

impressive...I must say its probably the best aspect of GameSalad that you can mock up a game idea in a few hours and test out a game idea and see if its fun to play...

As for names:
'watch the birdie'
'Scare Crow' (as you grab the crows they get scared and fly down?)
'Crows'
'As the bird flies'
'mile high crow'
'Boris the crow collector'
'fussy feathers'

something with Magpie,

Raven mad is good though...

JPickard

Now that I think about it, Raven Mad is also a fun play on Angry Birds, without being too "rip off" sounding. More like and homage. (especially because the game is nothing like angry birds.)

MagoNicolas

Love Style of graphics, and thats a very good game design.

And Just, We All Love Gs

Cheers.

Braydon_SFX

Yeah, the graphics are amazing, I wish I could do graphics like that. *sigh*
But hey, with practice, anything is possible.

butterbean

Artwork looks amazing! Great work

svn

For a game name, what about: MonoCROWmatic?

stevenc89

svn said:
For a game name, what about: MonoCROWmatic?

Are you serious. O . O::::::

SingleSparq

Guess "Counting crows" would get you in trouble eh?

3xL

harlin36

Crow Rustle ?

svn

stevenc89 said:
Are you serious. O . O::::::

Of course. I think MonoCROWMatic is a perfectly good title. If you dislike it, then okay.

stevenc89

svn said:
Of course. I think MonoCROWMatic is a perfectly good title. If you dislike it, then okay.

Don't get me wrong, the name is perfectly fine.
On side note, This game looks like higly addicting!

JohnPapiomitis

svn said:
Of course. I think MonoCROWMatic is a perfectly good title. If you dislike it, then okay.

lol look at the name of his game

and looks great darren

morphinegamingmachine

well the fact that u love gamesalad enough to leave "made with gamesalad" on to your custom splash, and that your games are good. made me buy bumps and red ball of goo after trying running wild for free

UtopianGames

Yeah it's true we did leave the made with GS splash on our past games but not sure we will in future games as it's a sad but true fact (heard it from several editor friends) developers will have a harder time gaining press coverage with the made with GS splash.

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beefy_clyro

Excellent in all aspects as always sir

UtopianGames

Pro membership doesn't run out for a while, i still stick to what i said and will see whats around and GS pricing model when it expires but for now i'm with GS and having a load of fun.

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LeonardDeveloper

UtopianGames said:
Umm not sure...i like your names, any more ideas for a name guys?

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Matchin' raven

SingleSparq

Based off harlin36 suggestion but make it "Rustling Crows"

mynameisace

I agree with everything you said, that's why I never slag off GameSalad. We are only here because we work better with a visual style of coding and a lot of the developers here, making money from publishing iOS games wouldn't be doing so if it weren't for this great tool. Sure, we all wish that certain parts of the engine would be different and that other features (and let's be honest, those features themselves are not going to make us more money, it's the games) would be added sooner, but I personally came back to GameSalad (I left when GameSalad Direct came along a year ago... Dark, dark times) after learning Corona & LUA because of the speed and visual aspect of it as so much more fun and rewarding to me! Also, they saw the error of their ways with GameSalad Direct!

At this moment in time (and I say that because I know other engines are coming along), GameSalad is by far the fastest way to get quality games on to the app store.

The game looks really fun, also! Again, the artwork is just stunning!

Ace

UtopianGames

Made a new video...were working on bird movement so they don't all fly straight, bonus items and hazards.

Some of the art is placeholder.

It was my B Day yesterday so i didn't spend a lot of time on this but work will continue today.

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beefy_clyro

Yeh varied bird movement would be awesome. Looking good though.

Happy belated bday for yesterday.

mynameisace

Happy birthday

Looking forward to seeing the updated movement, etc.

Ace

JPickard

I smell a hit.