When can we expect 0.9.0 ?

ORBZ

Hey devs,

I eagerly await 0.9.0. When can we expect it? I have had a lot of problems with 0.8.x and I hope that 0.9.0 will resolve them. Most importantly, preserve scene functionality, reliable collision detection, and moveTo behavior that stops on target.

Any idea when we can expect to see 0.9.0? I ask this since I, like most people on here, are paying customers and we deserve to know these things so that we can plan our projects accordingly.

I won't hold you to the timeline, but I would love to see a roadmap of what you are working on. I know development can sometimes take longer than expected. I just would like to see a picture of what you guys consider to be priority.

Thanks

venon_it

I hope a lot of integration: open feint , preserve scene .

staff: it is Possible to know how to proceed?

Thanks

gregr209

I second the motion for getting the 'moveto' command to work properly :-) Also would like to see the memory leak fixed and a real random function...among many other things :-)

Jel

Open Feint is top of my list at the moment.

iDeveloperz

- Open Feint
- Speed
- Using hardware (Camera, GPS, Microphone)
- High Scores

I think that is my overall though, I don't expect it to come with 0.9.

adado

Here we go again...

;-)

venon_it

yes yesss STAAAFFFFF PLEASEEE INSERT OPEN FEINT IN NEXT UPDATE

firemaplegames

SXSW is about to happen in Austin, March 12-21. GameSalad was chosen as a finalist for the Microsoft Accelerator in the Interactive section. I imagine they're pretty busy with all that right now, and we won't see an update until after.

iDeveloperz

Sorry, I ment Online leader boards.

Photics

I don't like the idea of Open Feint. Why would I want to work hard on a game and tie it to someone else's gaming network?

I'd rate the following as far more important...

-- Better Collision Detection
-- Fix the memory leak
-- Better performance
-- More platforms (Web browsers, Android, iPad, PC)

beatrage

Yes " Photics " !!

My suggestions are:

- collision per pixel could be a good idea!
- Every scene clean the memory allocation ( and i am destroying every object on my game if you ask me)
- make it fast to load and kill the jags from wrapx or wrapy background objects
- make it more stable...some times the GS closes itself and give me an error, and when the game is huge this keeps happening all the time.
you could create a debugger screen and show in red like the name of the objects that are creating errors on the game ( THIS WOULD REALLY HELP ALOT ) because sometimes i think that the GS closes itself from a fatal error when you run your gamebuild with a logical error.
- and finally fix the sound errors my explosions are gone and even creating new files my build doesn´t accept anymor ...and I don´t know why! And That Makes me Angry ^_^

And for the Christ's sake A PAUSE option please...the users can´t clean their asses while they are shitting and playing at the same time in the toylet...whithout a pause option T_T -> ^_^ !!

synthesis

@ Beatrage...LOL!!!

The iPod was invented for entertaining toilet timeouts! When else are you supposed to be able to play games at work.

jonmulcahy

I think it's been discussed that with the current Physics Engine (Box2D), Pixel collision was impossible, so I doubt that's coming

I'd love to see performance improvements, especially on the earlier devices. Loading time for the app and in between scenes can be brutal on a 3G iPhone, where it hums along on the 3GS

Valan

I would love to be able to move the pivot point and to group actors. To able to draw lines and shapes would be very handy too.

Photics

I think a pause option would be good. It could take hours to reach level 10 in my game.

As for pixel detection, I don't know how necessary that is. Look at Street Fighter II, isn't that all hit boxes? Even if it was possible, I'm not sure it's a good idea. The performance hit would be too great, no? With Circles and Squares, I can be quite creative.

The problem is watching the ball go right through my flipper. I hate that.

quantumsheep

There's already a 'pause button' workaround.

It's horrible, it's convoluted, but you can get it to work. Check out the Wiki.

Because of this, I doubt there'll be added 'Pause' functionality in the next update at least

QS

jhaas

My vote is performance and memory/resource usage.

Maybe I'm the only one having an issue with audio killing performance over time (after about 7 minutes)but without a fix in the near future my ability to continue use the engine is in doubt.

JackBQuick

A reliable Move To behaviour would make me enormously happy.