Armelline's GameSalad Tips - A video series

Armelline

So now all the commotion has died down a bit, I thought I'd post some links to a few short videos I put together. The idea of these videos is to give a series of tips and tricks to help you get the most out of GameSalad.

These aren't tutorials, and you may find you know some, most or all of these things. They're just little things I have discovered using GameSalad that I've found handy, and wanted to share with you too. I plan to make these a regular thing, and have videos for 5 more made and 5 more after that planned out, so look out for more soon!

Tip #1: Moving things Off-screen

Tip #2: The max() and min() functions

Tip #3: More than 50 tables

Tip #4: Keyboard navigation

Tip #5: More space to Preview

More coming soon!

neoman

Thanks for sharing and for the great effort. I am sure these will come in handy and useful for many users. I love the tables trick ...

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Now I have a voice to put with that rabbit...good job!

MentalDonkeyGames

Awesome stuff. Great job, and keep them coming!

Armelline

@The_Gamesalad_Guru said:
Now I have a voice to put with that rabbit...good job!

You've had one of those for a while :P I did a Meetup presentation, and I've posted at least one little throwaway video before :P

Glad people are enjoying them though!

Hopscotch

More of these @Armelline! Great stuff.

floatingwoo

@Armelline Absolutly this is awesome! Very clean title graphics and timing, no nonsense, in and out . Brilliant

As_Of_Latte

@Armelline Awesome, thank you! A lot of your tutorials and vids help me greatly. Especially for the game I'm currently building. I look forward to seeing more tips

The_Gamesalad_Guru

@Armelline said:
Glad people are enjoying them though!

Hey I was away the last six months...

Armelline

@neoman @NipaDidIt @Hopscotch @floatingwoo @As Of Latte Thanks! More coming tomorrow!

RThurman

@Armelline -- Great video tips. Keep 'em coming!

NimbleBug

@Armelline Nice tips Videos are short and sweet

GeorgeGS

Those sweet table hacks.

I'll ask around and see if the limit is still necessary or if it can be increased. I'm still a n00b when it comes to actually making stuff in Creator, but what do you use more than 49 tables for?

Armelline

@GeorgeGS said:
Those sweet table hacks.

I'll ask around and see if the limit is still necessary or if it can be increased. I'm still a n00b when it comes to actually making stuff in Creator, but what do you use more than 49 tables for?

Levels! Most things you can use 1 huge table for, but doing so is not ideal as it involves tracking which portion of the huge table you need to access for each level, and if you add a level you have to export/add/reimport.

I've been working on another project that I can't get into any details about but it requires lots of tables to manage player stats, and those can't be combined into one big table for good reasons.

Armelline

Tip #6: Copy/pasting expressions

Tip #7: Find which actors use an attribute

jamie_c

Love #7, helpful when you have tons of actors!

Armelline

 Tip 8: Use tags to tame the actors list

Tip 9: Save colours with the colour picker

Tip 10: Easily toggle a boolean attribute

The next set will really kick things up a notch! If more than a handful of people already know a couple of them I'll be impressed!

MentalDonkeyGames

Very useful tips! I already knew most of the ones you released, so i'm really looking forward to the next ones.

Armelline

@NipaDidIt @ice cream More coming soon, glad you enjoyed them!

The_Gamesalad_Guru

You're a video machine!

Braydon_SFX

Very nice! Great tips!

tintran

great tips.. Number 7 doesn't work for me when i delete the attribute it just deletes it and i don't get a warning window to cancel.

MentalDonkeyGames

@Armelline
Just watched the tip #6.
You mentioned the copy and paste method, but there is a method you did not mention. You can copy expressions from expression editor to another by simply selecting the whole expression (cmd+A) then just drag and drop it to another expression editor.

Armelline

@NipaDidIt said:
Armelline
Just watched the tip #6.
You mentioned the copy and paste method, but there is a method you did not mention. You can copy expressions from expression editor to another by simply selecting the whole expression (cmd+A) then just drag and drop it to another expression editor.

Great tip! I'll add it to a future tip if that's okay with you!

great tips.. Number 7 doesn't work for me when i delete the attribute it just deletes it and i don't get a warning window to cancel.

Are you on Windows? I've never tried it on Windows. If you're on Mac, that just means the attribute isn't used by anything at all.

KnightStar

Wow...these are awesome.. Tip#8 is a huge time saver!

-- J

KillerPenguinStudios

Awesome vids @Armelline!

Armelline

Two more tips today! I've got a few more made but finding time for these things is very difficult at the moment!

Tip 11: Reverting Attributes to Prototype

Tip 12: Type to Find in Actors Lists

robertkdale

Thank you @Armelline !

Armelline

Tip 13: Save Time With Custom Rules