Source code

fightjunkie01@hotmail.comfightjunkie01@hotmail.com Member, PRO Posts: 60
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I read some posts but they were dated a long time ago.
I was wondering if it was at all possible to view the source code of your finished game?

If not, How do they expect you to build games and sell them, when most people want the source code with it as well!?

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  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Member, Sous Chef, PRO Posts: 6,598
    edited February 2014

    All apps made in GameSalad Creator are published via GameSalad and we receive a binary-type file (the source code "scrambled" in this way), which is then uploaded (to Apple, for instance) - a safe and reliable method that works well.

    There are enough unscrupulous people about who would steal source code at the drop of a hat - the way it's done is to protect you and everyone else.

    If you are selling your app to a company which insists on the source code, then GameSalad Creator isn't the program to use as there's no way of obtaining the source code.

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  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    No, it's not possible. The idea of using a tool like GameSalad is that you don't have to understand how to code something using a programming language and the flip side of that is that you don't have access to the code. How do they expect you to build games? Like everyone else here, if you are skilled at GameSalad you can make amazing games. How do they expect you to sell them? I guess they probably don't expect you to sell them to a third party. It's rare that I hear from someone who wants to make games solely to sell them to someone else, although it certainly does happen. If you're planning that as your primary purpose, you might want to do more traditional coding instead. That's not to say that you can't sell a game made with GameSalad but I suspect you're right that companies prefer to have the source code.

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  • fightjunkie01@hotmail.comfightjunkie01@hotmail.com Member, PRO Posts: 60
    Yea I understand both of your comments. I'm not making games strictly to sell them. But, there are a few games that I am building strictly to sell. Thats just the thing I dont understand about gamesalad. I love the creator. But, It doesnt feel like we have "Full right" to our game. I know that gyroscope said its to protect us. But if I pay 300 bucks for pro, I want to be able to do with the game what I please which includes selling the source code to it. For instance, Open source. If I want 1 of my games to be open source I believe I should be able to do that especially if I had paid so much money to be a "pro" member.

    Furthermore, If I publish to android gamesalad then sends me my .apk so i can do with it what I please correct? Could I then decompile that .apk so i can get my source code.
    I love gamesalad because of its simplicity and I hate the idea of having to use both this and also code2x if I need to make a game with source involved.
  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    Well, first of all the Pro membership is a fee you pay to have access to additional features (http://gamesalad.com/creator/pricing). And no, technically you don't have "full rights" to your games in the sense that they have to be compiled and published through GameSalad's engine. I understand where you're coming from but it's a choice you make when you ask for game design to be as easy as it is with a tool like GameSalad.

    I don't know much about android publishing so I really can't answer that.

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