This is an introductory presentation of GameSalad for hybrid/cross-platform game development at the Digital World 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

1. GameSalad
Fastest way to create cross platform games
Hybrid Game Development Conference
Digital World 2015

2. About Me
M. Mizanur Rahman
CEO of Informatix Technologies & TechMasters
CSM, CSP and ZCE
Novice mobile game developer
http://booleandreams.wordpress.com

3. What is Game Salad?
• GameSalad Creator is an authoring tool
developed by GameSalad, Inc.
• Aimed primarily at non-programmers for
making games in a drag-and-drop fashion
• You do not need to know any programming for
creating games using GameSalad!

4. Are you serious? No programming!!
• Yes, you heard it right. You do not need to
know any programming or scripting
knowledge to build games
• Anyone can build games with GameSalad
• How is that possible? Let’s explore

5. Supported Platforms
• Web
• iOS
• Android
• Mac Desktop
• HTML5
• Windows 8
• Tizen
• Kindle/Nook

6. Download GameSalad Creator
• Go to www.gamesalad.com
• Download GameSalad Creator and it’s Free!
• It will work in Windows and Mac
• Install the creator and open it

8. New Project

9. Default view

10. Understanding GameSalad
• Scenes
• Actors
• Behaviors

11. Scenes
• Scenes are the building blocks of your game
• Contains the objects of game and provide an
essential way to organize different sections
• Example: Game Splash screen, Thank you screen,
actual game play, different stage of the game
• It is possible to split each scene into layers (like
photoshop)
• Allows to group objects within scene and arrange
them in front of or behind other layers/objects

12. Example of a scene

13. Scenes can be modified through
• Name
• Time
• Width & Height
• WrapX & WrapY
• Color
• Camera
Origin
Size
Tracking Area
Rotation

14. Actors
• Actors represent the visible objects within
game
• Actor can be an simple object/ obstacle/
characters which are shown on screen
• Actors can be controlled through user
motions/actions
• Actors can be hidden as well!

15. Identify Actors in this scene

16. Actor type
• Prototype: Master actor. The birds of angry
bird game or the bricks,obstacles are
prototype
• Instances: different birds are used in different
level of the game as instance of Prototype
actor
• Any change in prototype actor, will affect
instances

17. How to change actor properties
• Name
• Time
• Width & Height
• Position
• Rotation
• Color
• Image
• Graphics attribute (visibility, blending etc)
• Motion attributes (velocity, max speed)
• Physics attributes (density, friction, bounciness etc)

18. Behaviors
• The building block of the games
• Define logic for game and take action based on
user interaction
• 3 types of behaviors
– Rule: used to define a certain behavior to take place
only under specific conditions
– Persistent behaviors: behaviors that continue to act
on an actor continuously
– Action behaviors: behaviors that occur once. Repeat
under a rule with toggle value

19. behavior editor

20. Key behaviors
• Accelerate
• Animate
• Change Attribute/image/scene/size/velocity
• Collision
• Destroy
• Display Text
• Move
• Particles
• Pause/Reset/Restart Game
• Spawning actor

21. How games are saved in your machine
• Pure XML files
– Actors, behaviors, scenes, images, musics are
saved in separate folder
– Everything is defined in XML files
– You can modify XML files directly if you know what
you are doing

22. How to publish the game
• When you click publish, you have to choose
your desired release platform

23. Publishing in AppStore
• High speed internet connection
• 512 by 512 PNG icon image
• Xcode 4.2
• Valid Provisioning Profile and Keychain
Certificates
• At least 1 PNG screenshot of appropriate
resolution (Can be taken in Creator with the
Screenshot option, during Preview)
• Splash-screen PNG (optional)

24. Publishing on Google Play
• High speed internet connection
• Pro membership at GameSalad
• 512 by 512 PNG icon image
• Valid Keystore Key Signing Tools installed
(Keytool, Jarsigner, Zipalign)
• At least 1 PNG screenshot of appropriate
resolution (Can be taken in Creator with the
Screenshot option, during Preview)
• Splash-screen PNG (optional)

25. How does the XML changes to App
• XML and assets are uploaded to GameSalad
server
• They build your game app for your desired
platform

26. You can do more with Pro
• $299/Year
• Support for
– More platforms
– Ad network
– In app purchase
– Social network posts
– Nightly build
– Asynchronous multiplayer

27. Questions!!!
• Download some sample games from online
• Go through tutorials online
• Start building games….