GameSalad Summer 2024 Update
adent42
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Creator 2 / Summer 2024 Release!
If you haven't taken a look in a while, take a gander at Creator 2.0
Now with:
- Themes including Dark Pro mode.
- Onboarding Tour
- Free tutorials built into the tool!
- More responsive table editor
- And many bug fixes!
- List of projects shared with you in current session.
We held back on the release for a few months now as we waited for the school year to end (so as not to freak out Teachers and students with sudden changes). So I'm super pumped that we get to share this with you!
2024 GameSalad Student Creator Challenge Winners
We also just wrapped up announcing all of our Student Game Creation Challenge winners last week on social media, and I figure I'd share them here:
https://gamesalad.com/education/student-challenge/2024-challenge/results/
This year saw some awesome games!
Roadmap for Q3
Our projects queued for the summer include:
- The usual round of ad network updates
- In Creator 2 publishing UI
- HTML5 engine executables publishing options.
- Windows Native executable
GameSalad Webpack Boilerplate
Also for @Armelline a few other devs who are doing more with HTML5, we now have:
https://github.com/gamesalad/gs-webpack
Which will help you develop, iterate, and package your custom code more quickly! Based on a webpack boilerplate, this will allow you to easily use modern JS programming features and npm packages to develop your game and package all your custom code in a tidy package!
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HUGE release, just had a quick meeting with @geoascencio and we were looking at the same project together in different countries! This is a GS gamechanger
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Awesome stuff! Thanks for the update!
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Great! I waiting for Windows Native executable!
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Is this just web or will this be pushed to desktop as well?
Fantastic updates - thanks for keeping the Gamesalad train running 🤩
@Jeffm2 I will eventually release this as Desktop 2.0, but as promised, I won’t be killing the current 1.25 versions until I can get native or native like preview working with the HTML5 based editor.
The desktop 2.0 will come in 4 phases:
1) An online tied tool that is basically the web version wrapped for the desktop.
2) One that requires you start all new project online (so you have something to sync up to), and a switch to turn off syncing, so you can work offline until you’re ready to push your updates (sorta like google doc’s offline mode).
3) Completely independent desktop version that only requires you to be online to log in to find your subscription info and publish, much like the existing one.
4) Version with native preview or a browser tech based preview, but running lua on wasm for near native performance and testing parity with the native engine.
It will take us a while to get to 4, but once we get the windows executable, we’ll have handled the biggest blocker. After milestone 4, we’ll finally retire Creator 1.25.
@adent42 Thank you so much for all the work and the great response!