State of GameSalad on 7-17-13
CodeWizard
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Hello! It's that time again... time for another weekly state of GameSalad post.
Estimated Stable Build Schedule
We’re still holding off on releasing any new stable builds. More bug fixes and optimizations are in progress in the nightly builds. Head over to the “PRO - Working With GameSalad” forum for more info.
We've got a tentative release schedule underway. The QA team is digging in on the nightly builds and are making sure all is well. They'll be looking at things for the next week or so before giving us the go ahead for release.
We're also working on a "Release Candidate" system that will allow all users to take a look at proposed stable release builds before we release them. It's almost like the nightly builds... except that we're only including code and features for stable release in them. Keep an eye out here for more information on when the first release candidate will be prepared.
What’s New This Week?
1. We’re continuing to look for some new hires to help cover some weaknesses in our current staffing. Will keep you abreast of the developments on this front. Are you a skilled developer or do you know one? If so, head over to http://www.gamesalad.com/jobs
2. Async multiplayer is almost feature complete. We still need to add a ChangePassword behavior and have some code cleanup to do. We'll be integrating this into the nightly build soon. Before we do, we'll need to do some more internal testing and have a contract to finalize. But it's looking good!
3. We've got a fix going into nightly builds for changing actor visibility. Yeah, you'll be able to do so soon.
4. We've fixed several issues with sound playback. These fixes will be going into nightly builds shortly.
5. Our rework of the build process for Creator and the engine / viewer is taking a bit longer than anticipated. It's coming along well though. This is making our internal development process quite a bit easier (and is helping our latest programmer hire learn the code). Good times!
6. We're still optimizing the HTML5 engine and cleaning up some bugs for Tizen support.
7. We're profiling and optimizing the actor spawning code to speed it up. Should have something ready for nightly release in the next couple of days.
Estimated Stable Build Schedule
We’re still holding off on releasing any new stable builds. More bug fixes and optimizations are in progress in the nightly builds. Head over to the “PRO - Working With GameSalad” forum for more info.
We've got a tentative release schedule underway. The QA team is digging in on the nightly builds and are making sure all is well. They'll be looking at things for the next week or so before giving us the go ahead for release.
We're also working on a "Release Candidate" system that will allow all users to take a look at proposed stable release builds before we release them. It's almost like the nightly builds... except that we're only including code and features for stable release in them. Keep an eye out here for more information on when the first release candidate will be prepared.
What’s New This Week?
1. We’re continuing to look for some new hires to help cover some weaknesses in our current staffing. Will keep you abreast of the developments on this front. Are you a skilled developer or do you know one? If so, head over to http://www.gamesalad.com/jobs
2. Async multiplayer is almost feature complete. We still need to add a ChangePassword behavior and have some code cleanup to do. We'll be integrating this into the nightly build soon. Before we do, we'll need to do some more internal testing and have a contract to finalize. But it's looking good!
3. We've got a fix going into nightly builds for changing actor visibility. Yeah, you'll be able to do so soon.
4. We've fixed several issues with sound playback. These fixes will be going into nightly builds shortly.
5. Our rework of the build process for Creator and the engine / viewer is taking a bit longer than anticipated. It's coming along well though. This is making our internal development process quite a bit easier (and is helping our latest programmer hire learn the code). Good times!
6. We're still optimizing the HTML5 engine and cleaning up some bugs for Tizen support.
7. We're profiling and optimizing the actor spawning code to speed it up. Should have something ready for nightly release in the next couple of days.
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Otherwise exciting times once again.
Bu I Love 2#. I hope this come out within some fre week. Because that would help my game idea so much easier. And I think many people would agree with that
And I'm curious of what he means with "release candidate". @Codewizzard,could you explain this further.
Sorry for asking so much but I hope these isn't so difficult questions.
Some much needed improvements:
1) particles BEHIND actor
2) particle gravity independent of scene gravity (most people don't use scene gravity anyway)
3) Particles should not have to have same height/width
4) It would be nice to allow more than one size/color change (so that particles could start small, grow, then shrink back)
This should have been done a long time ago.
We'll release async multiplayer when it's ready.
Let me talk about release candidates for a moment...
We have nightly builds for Pro users, right? Well we also want to take those nightly builds and release them to everyone at some point. This requires testing from our QA group before we can sign off on a stable release. Checks and balances being what they are and all.
Well to help our QA group out, and to get more test coverage for the changes, we'll be releasing "Release Candidates" to everyone. They're like nightly builds in that they have new optimizations, fixes and features not yet released as stable. But they're not as cool as nightly builds because they don't have the very latest stuff in them.
For example, we just pinched off a release candidate branch internally for version 11 of the Creator and engine. We'll be testing that internally and releasing it to all GameSalad users to help aid in the testing. We most definitely don't want a repeat of 10.2's release where you were blindsided by several compatibility changes. The release candidate won't be getting the latest nightly build changes for a while though.
So, think of release candidates as a snapshot of the nightly build that we polish and fix up until it's ready for release to everyone. Nightly builds will keep on being released while we polish and fix the release candidate -- and the release candidate won't get the new nightly build features until we've released it and started a new release candidate cycle.
Man, that's a lot of words to explain this. Umm. Just know that it's cool and will help us make the tool and engine better for you before release.
Yeah, we've done some pretty impressive optimizations on particles. But those features you mention haven't been implemented yet to my knowledge. Making a note for future follow up.
Keep it up!
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We are definitely planning on supporting standalone HTML5 publishing one day. It's on the list and everything.
Excellent !!!
[Edit - the phrase 'tighter spawning' is a little unsettling, but go with it]
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Yes it's crazy. I thought it would take a much longer time.
But now when async coming to a end. Have you decided... Will this feature be another "only PRO feature" or will it be for everyone?
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there still a strange bug i'm having, on device & ios simulator, not on gamesalad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vYKSEDNhCEo
And please do not assume I was saying anything about them being slow. Those were your words not mine.
I think you should read last weeks update than read this weeks and tell me it did not sound almost the same.
Also, if you are going to use a word like "antagonize" you really should spell it correctly...
Will HTML5 have user tracking like the apps have, or can that code be removed? I am a skilled web developer. Wow, that Web Developer / Hacker job sure looks good. I looked at the houses in Austin this morning... very pretty!