Steve ballmer Gamesalad competition????

ChaserChaser Member Posts: 1,453
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Mac rumors reports steve ballmer from Microsoft will be speaking at wwdc about visual studio app making tools. Gamesalad you may have some competition especially if they have more use of api's like mic camera compass

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  • JoshKahaneJoshKahane Member Posts: 470
    Yes, however it would still require coding at heart. It would be a very different product than GameSalad and would I imagine be more like Xcode for windows. However its all rumors and speculation. :)
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    I think I tried Visual Studio back when XNA was new. I was thinking of making games for the XBOX 360 and PC. That didn't work out well. It was hard... really really hard!

    If Visual Studio does go to Mac, I think it's more of a problem for Unity and Torque. GameSalad has an edge in that it's not directly working with code. Heh, more visual development.

    This seems like more evidence of what I suspected. I think Microsoft and Apple are forming an alliance to fight Google.
  • rebumprebump Member Posts: 1,058
    I'd welcome Visual Studio and a ported SDK to the Mac OS.

    Make sense if they team up since they are a bit outside each others' mainstays (peoples' mindsets) to some extent.
  • mrfunkleberrymrfunkleberry Member Posts: 424
    I agree. The GameSalad concept is vastly different to that of VS, and thus attracts different types of developers. However it all depends on how it's implemented. I would imagine most VS developers would be fairly resistant to learning obj-C, (i know some that positively hate it). So would the market be ripe for GS style game dev plugins?

    Rumors can be dangerous things. Last time i acted on a rumor i got slapped by Susan Hemming behind the bike shed.

    Personally I don't think GS will ever be safe until it's bought up by Apple. That's not a another rumor, just a personal wish :)
  • Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
    would have been great...ish

    http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/27/keep-the-tomatoes-at-home-ballmer-not-coming-to-wwdc/
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