I've officially had it with GameSalad!

mza1979m

I realize this is beta, but some bugs just make it literally unusable. I was designing my 6th level, and all of a sudden it won't let me modify the behaviours of a certain actor that I use as a spawner. I have it in all my previous 5 levels and it works fine, but now in my 6th level every time that I double-click the instance to modify its behaviours, a weird thing happens. The entire bottom left corner of my screen (Behaviours, Images, Audio) goes completely white and nothing on my stage responds. The menus of the program still work but that's about it. I have to quite GameSalad and go back in, but it goes back to doing the same thing. I tried deleting the actor and creating a duplicate of it again from the previous stages, but no luck. I tried deleting the whole scene and recreating it, but the same thing happens!
I think I'll wait until a more stable version is released before I do anything else.

Photics

Well... there is a bit of frustration with GameSalad. Even right now, with all of knowledge about the software, I find it difficult to continue. What project will I work on next? How will I compete in such a highly competitive market? What's the point? Why don't I just give up and start another hobby?

Maybe I can fly remote control airplanes or something?

Heh, but then I rest and get back to work. Yes, the software is in beta, but the money I can make is real. Tshirtbooth, Utopian Games, Firemaplegames... they got past the limitations of the software and they made lots of money.

If something weird happens with the software, ranting on the forums like this is not incredibly productive. The GameSalad team is helpful. Did you try using technical support? If some weird glitch happened. Maybe if you can explain it to them, show them how to recreate the steps that caused your software to crash, then maybe the GameSalad team can make the software better.

Sparkyidr

I had a similar issue the other day

Have you tried saving out to a new file? That seemed to solve it for me.

gyroscope

Or referring to an attribute in the Rules somewhere that's been deleted...

StormyStudio

gyroscope said:
Or referring to an attribute in the Rules somewhere that's been deleted...

...that one is always fun....

scitunes

Nothing like a blue oval that just says "game" in it!

mza1979m

Thanks for all your responses. For the most part I've been able to find a workaround for my issues, but this one seens directly related to software functionality, rather than "broken code" or whatnot, the way a part of the screen just goes blank. It's not during runtime or anything anyways, I really haven't had much time to ponder the issue. Been working at leasy 12 hours a day and by the time I get home I'm totally beat and haven't the energy to bang my head against the keyboard. Harry potter has a lightning bolt; I have a Windows key engraved into my forehead.

butterbean

@Mza: I too had the same issue as you, and it's a real P.I.A but hopefully you can get past it and work around it. I found when copying and pasting behaviors from one actor to another, that this occurred.

It took me longer to work on my game than I had wanted, but nonetheless, it's almost complete... just keep at it!

quantumsheep

mza1979m said:
I have a Windows key engraved into my forehead.

This is very telling.

I'm assuming you're running GS on a hackintosh?

QS

Asymptoteell

"Hackintosh"

Love the term, Quantum.

Asymptoeell

P.S. Despite gamesalad's issues (magnified by the fact that my computer freezes every 2 hours as is), it is still by far the easiest way to make games. Stick with it. It does wonders.

mza1979m

Yes... I'm using a Hackintosh Crap! Did I say Windows key? I meant... er... Command key! Yes, that's it...
QS caught me. I hoped with an i7 processor and 16GB of ram that GS would take advantage of the abundance of available resources and look past this little Hackintosh dilema.
Anyways, just a few more Air Miles and I can get a top of the line Macintosh laptop! Although I don't think I can wait another 4 months or so, I might just go grab me one sooner and pay for it, with like... money or something.

mza1979m

You're right butterbean... it seams it only occurs when I copy and paste behaviours. Even though I've been copying/pasting for a while with no problems, but some bug in GameSalad must have gotten triggered by some evil force, preventing me from copying/pasting without awakening its inner demons... ok, no more RPG games for me.

quantumsheep

mza1979m said:
You're right butterbean... it seams it only occurs when I copy and paste behaviours. Even though I've been copying/pasting for a while with no problems, but some bug in GameSalad must have gotten triggered by some evil force, preventing me from copying/pasting without awakening its inner demons... ok, no more RPG games for me.

Funnily enough, your issue has just happened to me!

I tried moving my menu scene from Gravitrixx into a new game, knowing full well that a lot of the actors and attributes would have to be remade.

It seems that whenever I opened an actor that I'd moved from Gravitrixx into the new game, the bottom left half of the screen went blank, and everything was unresponsive.

Then GS would crash.

Are you copy and pasting actors/attributes that don't exist into a new game at all like I am? Perhaps that's the problem?

Cheers,

QS

mza1979m

Nope... all within the same game. But I think (although not sure) that it may have something to do with broken behaviours within the actors, such as when referencing something that isn't there.
Now my copy/paste doesn't work at all. I can copy or cut, but when I try to paste anything, instead of the expected result, I just get a blank space where the copied behaviours should be. Although this is probably an unrelated issue, it's equally frustrating.
Boy I hope they release a new stable version soon...

TwistedMech

I have spent the last month trying to narrow down issues which cause crashes on the device. I will now rewrite my shooter in corona and hope gs improve. The last update was a bigger disaster than the update from 0.7.0.

scitunes

quantumsheep said:
Funnily enough, your issue has just happened to me!

I tried moving my menu scene from Gravitrixx into a new game, knowing full well that a lot of the actors and attributes would have to be remade.

It seems that whenever I opened an actor that I'd moved from Gravitrixx into the new game, the bottom left half of the screen went blank, and everything was unresponsive.

Then GS would crash.

Are you copy and pasting actors/attributes that don't exist into a new game at all like I am? Perhaps that's the problem?

Cheers,

QS

This just started happening with me too (over the last few days).

xarmian

Funny.. this just happened to me for the first time today.. what I did was create an instance and unlock it, add a single rule to it, then i decided i wanted to switch the instance to the prototype and copy-and-paste the rule from the instance to the prototype. So I copied the rule in the instance, clicked the "revert to prototype" button, pasted the rule into the prototype, and nothing displayed when I pasted. Then all of a sudden it went wacky - i clicked Add Rule and the new rule went in half-way down the page (as if what I pasted into the actor was there but not visible) and then the weird blank corner thing happened. I tried quitting and re-starting gamesalad with no luck. I then deleted the prototype and created a new one from scratch, and it went back to normal.

mza1979m

Well it's definitely a bug but it's hard to reproduce it, so it would kind of be difficult to report it.