Self-Hosted HTML5 Export Status?

ianfitz@gmail.comianfitz@gmail.com Member Posts: 3
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Hi,

I keep wanting to dive into GameSalad development, but am waiting on HTML5 Self-Hosting to land. It seemed like it was going to happen in 2014 as of last August:

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/71701/state-of-gamesalad-on-8-20-2014

"Statements about when HTML5 self hosting will happen, in order of certainty:

It will happen. I'm confident it will happen before the end of the year. I'd like it to happen before the end of the quarter."

I found these two bugs on GameSalad for HTML5 export with no comment/confirmation...

http://bugs.gamesalad.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511
http://bugs.gamesalad.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521

So, wondering what the latest is?

Thanks!

Answers

  • LovejoyLovejoy Member Posts: 2,078

    @ianfitz@gmail.com said:
    So, wondering what the latest is?

    Thanks!

    I don't think anything has been done about it.

    But is this something your looking for?

    http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/505877#Comment_505877

    Fortuna Infortuna Forti Una

  • ianfitz@gmail.comianfitz@gmail.com Member Posts: 3

    @Lovejoy said:
    I don't think anything has been done about it.
    But is this something your looking for?
    http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/505877#Comment_505877

    Yea, I've seen the hack way to do it, and guess that could work. My fear is...will it continue to work, you know? Will a future release break this, since it's not officially supported method.

    So, I was hoping for official support. They had talked about actually doing it in a way where the resolution scales, so you can do full screen with HTML5 export. Not the fixed viewport of the current arcade method.

  • LovejoyLovejoy Member Posts: 2,078

    @ianfitz@gmail.com said:
    So, I was hoping for official support. They had talked about actually doing it in a way where the resolution scales, so you can do full screen with HTML5 export. Not the fixed viewport of the current arcade method.

    Hopefully someone from the GS team can come in and give us a little update.

    Fortuna Infortuna Forti Una

  • ShineyGamesShineyGames Member Posts: 157

    +1 for me as well that why I'm no longer a pro member waiting for this.

  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394

    Are you @Photics in disguise? ;)

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  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    edited February 2015

    @beefy_clyro said:
    Are you Photics in disguise? ;)

    Nope, that's not me.

    @ShineyGames said:
    +1 for me as well that why I'm no longer a pro member waiting for this.

    Two seemingly trivial issues have been stopping me from renewing my GameSalad Pro subscription... Metrics Gathering (Hi @ForumNinja - the Roadmap is still not updated... http://gamesalad.com/creator/roadmap ...the removal of Metrics Gathering is still at the bottom of the list.) and the lack of proper HTML5 exporting.

    @ianfitz@gmail.com said:
    So, I was hoping for official support. They had talked about actually doing it in a way where the resolution scales, so you can do full screen with HTML5 export. Not the fixed viewport of the current arcade method.

    Yea, I've seen the hack way to do it, and guess that could work. My fear is...will it continue to work, you know? Will a future release break this, since it's not officially supported method.

    I'm imagining it's trivial to allow self-hosted HTML5 projects. I don't want to hack my projects to get it to work. That might make GameSalad grumpy. So, I've been waiting for an official GameSalad announcement.

    @Lovejoy said:
    Hopefully someone from the GS team can come in and give us a little update.

    In the thread linked in the first post, ForumNinja said that the RoadMap would be updated soon and @adent42 said that he was confident that the feature would be added by the end of the year. Unfortunately, he didn't specify which year.

  • ianfitz@gmail.comianfitz@gmail.com Member Posts: 3

    I already gave up and moved to Stencyl instead.

    It doesn't have HTML5 export, but it has Flash export which is scalable/can do full screen. And it's not locked into a marketplace, you can just export it to SWF. As for mobile devices, it can publish to iOS and Android.

    So not perfect, but a lot better than GameSalad for my needs.

  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    edited February 2015

    @ianfitz@gmail.com said:
    I already gave up and moved to Stencyl instead.

    It doesn't have HTML5 export, but it has Flash export which is scalable/can do full screen. And it's not locked into a marketplace, you can just export it to SWF. As for mobile devices, it can publish to iOS and Android.

    So not perfect, but a lot better than GameSalad for my needs.

    Unfortunately, Flash is dying...

    However, HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively. This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.

    http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html

    Even without Stencyl, I got really good with Flash. It's been frustrating to see Flash phased out by HTML5, when the HTML5 developmental tools were not up to the same quality. It seems that is about to change though. Something interesting is in beta.

    I've been waiting for years to see if GameSalad or Stencyl would deliver professional level HTML5 development tools. It didn't happen. It feels like such a wasted opportunity.

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