App viewer available for free memberships

jon2sjon2s Member Posts: 40
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
My opinion, not that it really matters, is that the app viewer for the iphone really should be included with the free GameSalad membership. Although the ability to create the games and use them in the GameSalad application is nice, it is very difficult to judge how it is going to behave on the iphone. I also think that since the limitations of the app viewer would allow this. It is my understanding that the app viewer only works if you are on the same wifi as the GameSalad application computer.

I've been holding off on buying an express / full membership because of this. If I had the ability to see it on my phone, even if it is just in the app viewer, I'm sure that I'd be getting my membership much sooner.

Thanks for the consideration.

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  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    Unfortunatly I don't see this happening. Apple does the same thing, you can play and preview on your machine all you want, but you need to pay up to test on your phone

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  • HunnenkoenigHunnenkoenig Member Posts: 1,173
    It's ok how it is now. $99 is not too much to pay and they need something that people are willing to pay for.

    The viewer never worked for me anyway. I couldn't make it into a working app with my certificates, but I don't miss it.
  • jon2sjon2s Member Posts: 40
    This has little to do with them getting or not getting paid, just a matter of when. If I push it to my phone, which I can only use it on that phone and if I'm right there on the same wifi, and see that it works great, then I know that I want to buy it. The way it is right now is if I test my game using the GameSalad application and assume that the way it runs on there is the way it will run on my phone I fool myself, buy the license and am disappointed in the result. If I assume the worst, I think that GameSalad may be too heavy of an application I abandon GameSalad all together.

    I can see both sides of it and yes, $99 is not too much money. It is just a suggestion.
  • HunnenkoenigHunnenkoenig Member Posts: 1,173
    GS is a cool app. If you can't code, it is the only solution for you to make iphone apps.
    I am thankful for the devs making it possible even for me to make my own games.

    It works phantastically well. You can believe me. What you see on your PC, is not much different from what you see on your phone. In my case it is even better on the phone.

    So I can only tell you, that you can pay the 99 dollars blind, as I did. I didn't regret it.
  • scitunesscitunes Member, Sous Chef Posts: 4,047
    I think what mulcahy is saying is that you cannot put the viewer onto a device until you have paid apple to become a developer. So I think GS is assuming that if you are serious enough to invest $100 to be an apple developer you are planning on releasing games with GS so you may as well just pay the $99 to GS. I guess there are probably some out there who already have accounts with apple because they develop on other platforms, but for most of us it just makes sense the way it is.
  • missmmissm Member Posts: 41
    What app viewer is this? ARe you talking about the SDK iphone simulator???
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    There's two parts...

    1) There's the viewer from GameSalad, which lets you view your app on the iPhone / iPod Touch.
    2) There's Apple's SDK (xcode and stuff) which you make certificates for. The process is that you tell Apple which device you're testing with, then you use their web based interface to create a certificate that's customized for you. With that certificate you create a GameSalad Viewer that's designed to run on your device. From there, you can test your GameSalad games through the viewer.
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