@adent42 That’s unfortunate about the Viewer. Hopefully that situation can be resolved soon!
As an aside, what is the possibility of implementing folders in the images tab? My game will be heavy on animations when its said and done, so being able to organize would be amazing.
Also, my project has been attempting to publish to the servers for nearly four days now. It’s a new project, so I cant provide a link to the publishing page. It says an App ID doesn’t even exist yet. Thanks!
@adent42 not quite sure what happened, but when I went to add images to my project, it jumbled up ones that I had already added (didn't match what the actual files are) and the new ones that have been uploaded aren't the correct image. Any clues?
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If this is creator 2 there might be a case where a delete of an image didn't fully take and there's some bad state. DM a link to your project.
@adent42 I logged on today after work and it appears to have fixed itself. However, it still is reading as Publishing Request, as it has since last Thursday. Any idea on that front?
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@191tmg if you DM me your publishing link I can look into it.
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Hello GameSalad family. I was slightly sidetrackedto get ready for the school year but we just pushed out the door! It include 1 EDU specific item and a couple of items that are great for everyone!
Bowlbot. We finally launched Bowlbot! If you're a Basic or Pro user you'll get a limited number of credits to use Bowlbot on Creator 2. Bowlbot is a coding agent for GameSalad, backed by Google Gemini for the time being (best balance of costs and performance. Once we build a credits system we'll enable more models like Claude.
Creator 2 backend upgrade. We've swapped out the database that stores and syncs projects on Creator 2. With that update users should see better reliability and speed (and we see a smaller cloud bill!)
AI Grading Assistant. Since we built out a PGFScript spec (a scripting language representation of GameSalad projects) to make it easier for Bowlbot to reason about GameSalad "code", I realized that I could set things up so an LLM can grade a project against our final project. So we built that to make teacher's lives easier!
New tutorials. We added a few more tutorials into our education project, while also means that soon there will be more tutorials available to Pro users! Keep an eye out for Flappy * (build Flappy Birds Clones), Choice Words (dialog system), Bowlbot Survivor (swarm survivor, think Vampire Survivor), and Salad Gardens (crop maintenance, think Stardew Valley).
Creator 2 stability and bugfixes. We've been working to make Creator 2 more stable for large projects. That's an ongoing effort, but hopefully things will feel a bit better for power users.
What's next?
Creator 2 default. With our more scalable backend GameSalad's homepage will now start new users on Creator 2. Don't worry old-timers, the desktop versions will still be available and we're going to try to work in a few more updates.
Engine 2 (or 1.5?) The new engine we kept talking about is now up next and we're rebuilding our app generation pipeline to allow us to get the new system in your hands! Which means we'll finally get native Windows builds! And though we have yet to validate it, in theory our tech choices open up game consoles as well!
Publishing 2 - AppGen. Did you know that publishing was called that because we originally wanted to stand in the middle and publish your games? In conjunction with the new engine we're working on a new build system and the way you manage your apps will change too. Now instead of a Game with multiple Apps, we're looking to move to a Snapshot -> Apps model. All app config will be directly linked to the app and not a "Service + Platform". And all of this will be inside Creator 2.
Bowlbot MCP - Some of you probably already have a Claude or Codex account and don't want or need to but credits from us. So we're building out a Bowlbot MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. This will let you point your coding agent to GameSalad's servers and edit your GameSalad games directly from your coding agent. And as a bonus if you keep your Creator 2 browser window open, you'll get to see the updates reflected in the UI so you can reason about the changes visually, the GameSalad way!
Let us know if you have any requests or suggestions!
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Oh and before all the other "next up" stuff, we need to upgrade Android to API 36 for the August deadline.
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Sadly apple rejected the viewer, so I'm going to have to retool it a bit.
@pinkio75 it will only be available to web Creator.
Lot's of new stuff in the pipeline! Love to see it!
@adent42 That’s unfortunate about the Viewer. Hopefully that situation can be resolved soon!
As an aside, what is the possibility of implementing folders in the images tab? My game will be heavy on animations when its said and done, so being able to organize would be amazing.
Also, my project has been attempting to publish to the servers for nearly four days now. It’s a new project, so I cant provide a link to the publishing page. It says an App ID doesn’t even exist yet. Thanks!
@adent42 not quite sure what happened, but when I went to add images to my project, it jumbled up ones that I had already added (didn't match what the actual files are) and the new ones that have been uploaded aren't the correct image. Any clues?
If this is creator 2 there might be a case where a delete of an image didn't fully take and there's some bad state. DM a link to your project.
@adent42 I logged on today after work and it appears to have fixed itself. However, it still is reading as Publishing Request, as it has since last Thursday. Any idea on that front?
@191tmg if you DM me your publishing link I can look into it.
@adent42 I don’t have a publishing link yet. It says no APP ID exists
@191tmg can you send me your creator link then?
Hello GameSalad family. I was slightly sidetrackedto get ready for the school year but we just pushed out the door! It include 1 EDU specific item and a couple of items that are great for everyone!
What's next?
Let us know if you have any requests or suggestions!
Oh and before all the other "next up" stuff, we need to upgrade Android to API 36 for the August deadline.
@adent42 Will get it sent over shortly! Thanks for the updates on what’s new! Im guessing Viewer2 is a no-go for iOS?