Help me please! Create a game like Cityville, Farmville?

Ale28mj

Hi, my name is Alessio and i'm 16. I live in Italy and i'm using game salad from 3 days!
What I wanted to do is sort of game like Farmville, CityVille. A game where you can build something with some money, a particular shop and events.

For the moment I am only able to create the background, some message and a little shop whit an object! :-l
I wanted to know if someone was willing to help me. I repeat, I'm Italian and I do not speak English well.

Maybe we can be on Facebook or Teamviewer

Ale28mj

Nobody? (

MarkOnTheIron

Ciao Alessio,

Probably a game like this would be too hard for you if you just started using Game Salad.
Try with something smaller and simpler, build up some experience and know how and watch a lot of tutorials on GS youtube channel or on gshelpers.com

Then probably you will be able to start working on a project like Farmville.

Ale28mj

Hello Mark! Thanks for reply!

I've seen many tutorials that led me to make some small step.
In any case, like you said, this games are very complicated. :-S

I'll try to do something simpler.

I also wanted to know something.
To publish a game on Appstore have to pay anything?
You must be over?

It 'a curiosity!

MarkOnTheIron

To publish on the Apple App Store you have to get a iOS dev license from Apple that costs 99$ per year (79€).

Also you need to be over 18. If you're younger you can subscribe using your parent name and credit card.

PuzzlePlatformerMan

One thing to keep in mind, too, is: games like FarmVille and CityVille have quite advanced AI. It might not seem advanced, but it is hard to program even the simplest games, and those games are not the simplest games. Another thing is, GameSalad, while being a very good tool, has a reputation to be, well... limited, so to say. The fact is a game like FarmVille might simply just be too hard to program in Gamesalad. You might be stuck with making simpler games. But, that doesn't mean they wouldn't be fun! Oh, and one last thing to worry about: Copyright laws. If you make a game with the intention of making it play and feel like a Zynga game, Zynga could find your game and sue you, or email GameSalad or Apple and tell them to take down your game or face legal action. So, when and if the game gets done, I'd be careful with what you write in the description and the Title. Certainly don't write 'Ville' at the end of your game title, and don't write in the description that you made a zynga game clone. I think you'd be safe with writing your influences in the description, but just don't write a zynga game as your ONLY one.

Ale28mj

Ok, I'm trying to make games much much easier.
It 'still great fun!