GameSalad 0.9.1 – Mac App Store and Pause

February 7 2011, 9:44pm

GameSalad 0.9.1 is here! We’ve got some big new features and more than a few big fixes. Take a moment, and let’s walk through some the goodies you’ll find in GameSalad Creator 0.9.1 Beta. Mac App Store Publishing Of course, at the top of our new features list is the new Mac App Store publishing target. Mac desktops/laptops have always been a target platform for GameSalad, but now you’ll be able to publish your Mac games to the official Mac App Store. A lot of under-the-hood work for our dev team means a couple of checkboxes for you. Our Mac App Store publishing system is quick, intuitive, and ready for your games. For a closer look at the new publishing system, check out this awesome tutorial from Tshirtbooth:

For those who aren’t aware, publishing to the Mac App Store will require new certificates and another Apple developer account. For a walkthrough of these processes, check out this video:

Pause The wait is over! With GameSalad 0.9.1 we’ve introduced a new behavior… actually, TWO new behaviors. By assigning the Pause behavior to an actor, you will be able to put your scene into a freeze state – everything will freeze and a new scene will appear above. This will be your “pause scene”. Within the “pause scene”, you can apply the Unpause behavior to remove your “pause scene” and return to the action. For a more thorough walkthrough of our latest behavior, here’s Tshirtbooth with an incredible tutorial:

Making GameSalad Better On top of these new features, we’ve also greatly improved our Undo functionality. Undo now applies to target platforms, orientations, tagging, layers, and even unlocking instances! We’ve updated the security of our web games collection by altering the way game files are stored and called to on our website. On top of all that, there has been a slew of big fixes and performance improvements from the previous version. For a detailed blow-by-blow of our fixes, check out the release notes on our What’s New page. Thanks, everyone, for your patience and we hope you have a blast with GameSalad 0.9.1! What to do now:

Download GameSalad Creator 0.9.1 Beta Mac App Store Publishing (GameSalad side of things) Video Tutorial Mac App Store Publishing (Apple side of things) Video Tutorial Pause Video Tutorial Read GameSalad 0.9.1 Release Notes