New to GS, but not new to making games...
ChaunceyK
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I've made several pencil/paper/dice games over the years, but never anything in the form of an app. But I like the idea, and I'm very happy that GS is a wysiwyg tool, seeing as I have no programming experience. About me, I'm a 40yo college freshman (lost a really good job to outsourcing & never recovered), and a father to triplet daughters. I'm hoping I can turn some of my old-school games into old-school style apps & make some money to put these kids through college themselves one day!
My first attempt will be a solo dungeon-crawl, ccg style. I originally made it back in '07, but I was very disappointed to find that the cost to have it printed meant it would never sell. But now if I can make it into an app with GS, cost shouldn't be a problem (I hope...is there anything I don't know about yet??).
My first attempt will be a solo dungeon-crawl, ccg style. I originally made it back in '07, but I was very disappointed to find that the cost to have it printed meant it would never sell. But now if I can make it into an app with GS, cost shouldn't be a problem (I hope...is there anything I don't know about yet??).
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Also, if you don't know already, you can find tons of video at this website: www.gshelper.com
To answer your question about expenses, all you need is a Apple developer license which cost $100 a year. You can publish with GameSalad for free, and if you want, go PRO which has many awesome features.
Again, welcome and good luck!
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Darren.
1st play around with the GS Creator … open and click each button/tab and see what happens
this will give you an idea of how to use things
EX: you can add actors by + in Inspector actorPane … or + in Home: actors …
or drag an image into that Home: Actors section or the sceneEditor
(but we usually import images via Library: Images
… then drag to or changeBehaviors in an actor)
whatever way you try to do something … Game Salad will try to get that done for you!
2nd do some of the gettingStarted tutorials in Cookbook … (link at top of page)
3rd download the Manual:
http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/45683/the-official-gamesalad-manual-now-available#latest
and, while doing the above …
try putting things you want in a project and getting them to work
(doesn't have to be your actual project … just a sandbox to try different things)
4th watch videos … and pause them to try out what they show you
after you are comfortable with the basics …
then it is sometimes best to focus on what you want to create … like your ccg
and learn the skills you need … to do that project
always, it is best to focus on one aspect/element at a time!
learning isn't hard … but can be overwhelming … so focus on specific skills is important
Enjoy yourself! playing games is fun; making games can also be fun.
There are a bunch of videos on how to various things (platformer control,spawning numbers in random order, etc.) on youtube.
Best of luck
I used to make CCG/Board games back in my 20s (1920s I think!) so very excited to see what you come up with APP wise
How're you finding it all?
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