@Japster - I'd have understood your "it'll probably never happen" attitude a year ago, but over the past year so many things have happened. I just can't support such an attitude now.

GameSalad has custom fonts, you can add any font you want.

Well, @Socks, I really appreciate you stepping in and mentioning that, it kind of exonerates me - although I'm getting the distinct feeling that @marionwood and I are never going to see eye-to-eye on

It just seems that your point of view is of someone who has not invested their livelihood on this tool being a commercial tool.

Student will get it for free.from the school. .it 's very unlikely that they buy a second copy....and if ever the 0.3% of student in this class want to become programmer, some guy in their class will

Exactly, this is what should worry us. I hate to speculate on how things like this will be handled, but with the lack of communication it's hard not to... speculate.

Hey you calling me ignorant?! I thought we had both about the same number of actual facts. Could you tell me a couple of extra facts then please?

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss his concerns, I know for a fact, through my inside contacts at GS, that @CodeWizard spent nearly $200,000 on a gold fedora which he wore only once and now uses it to

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Thank you @Japster for throwing yourself in the oven with everyone else who is not afraid to tell it like it is.

@blob With the greatest respect, you're really not summarizing the "issues", but collecting together a list of rants and conspiracy theories, which more-or-less accuse the GS team of

Tables aren't required but are certainly easier since they don't require loading -- it's done automatically -- and you can save multiple "attributes" (cells) with a single Save Table

@fmakawa Yes, you'd need to use a custom keyboard. And yes, good point about Loop over Table for returning multiple results.

I posted it on the forums. Not sure of the exact thread. AI is a very broad subject. Each use will be very different. As tic-tac-toe is a solved game, I was able to just have the AI step through the p

Thank-you

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You are right to assume that these kids will be interested in these very features and would prefer to make money via their games rather than riding paper routes or washing cars. Who wouldn't?

@marionwood "I did wonder when someone was going to bring up the Graphene debate, though I really don't think the two situations are at all comparable, not least because we're not being asked

If you haven't been developing a games serioussly or invested years on game salad, if you are not intending to be a successful professional game developer...

Thank you for some specifics! At least now I understand what some of the real fears are.