windows vs mac creator

danshaw

hey folks...
im ready to start working on my first game salad game...ive been doing most of my learning of game salad on my mac...but i also have a PC and acctually perfer to work on a PC...grew up with a pc and find it easier to use....
my question is, is there any significant difference between the 2 versions of game salad? pros and cons?

thanks
Dan

joshiwu

i like pc, for its predictive text functions. and its backwards compatible with mac (for cola purposes.)

-Timo-

you can only publish to apple with a mac
windows has some bugs... (you cant use decimals)
so I think mac is best

KevinCross

Go with what you're comfortable with. If you've got both you've got the publishing to the App Store solved as you can build it on the PC and then send it over to your Mac to package it up for Apple.

I would have thought that the Mac version would be a lot more reliable as it's been out for longer than the Windows version, but I'm not a PC Windows fan so my answer is probably a little biased.

Good luck with your first game

Hopscotch

The decimals bug only affects people in regions where the decimal "." and thousands seperator "," is swapped.

As a workaround you can easily change this under the Windows Regional settings.

-Timo-

@Hopscotch thats nice to know thanks for information. maybe you can start an discussion where you explain to people how you can do this? (a lot of people are asking for it ^^)

jamie_c

If you're interested you can see a side-by-side comparison of the interfaces here:

http://www.jamie-cross.net/?portfolio=gamesalad-macintosh-and-windows-interface-side-by-side-comparison

Hopscotch

@timolapre1998, ok, I accepted your nudge

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/59247/windows-creator-first-stop-if-you-experience-unexpected-behaviours

@jamie_c, I also referred to your excellent post in it.