Moving from MAC to PC - Any words of advice?
About 4 years ago I bought a Mac just to develop with GameSalad. I made a bunch of apps, mostly published to iOS (a few to Amazon) and I have experienced some success as a developer (mostly luck.. but still)...
I haven't even looked at GameSalad in about a year... But way back in the day GameSalad for Windows was wonky, had a different interface and didn't work real well...
Just curious: has it gotten better? I'd like to get back into it (maybe even work on Windows games) but I have limited time and being able to sit down with my Windows 10 PC laptop would be a helluva lot more convenient and useful than having to remote into my Mac every time I wanted to test something...
I'll obviously still need the Mac to publish iOS games.... but was just curious if the Windows GameSalad had gotten any better...
Thanks in advance...
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It still has a different interface, same as always. Not sure about any Windows 'wonkieness' since I work on the Mac versions.
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My recent experience with GameSalad Windows is that I wouldn't want to be working with it. I am a long-time Mac user, but have seen and worked with the recent Windows builds because I'm working with someone who is on a PC machine.
I don't know why, but the stability of the PC version and reliability as well, were horrible.
We've spent a LOT of man-hours getting the PC tool cleaned up. Still some lingering issues to resolve, but the next PC build in particular should be pretty great (see @CodeWizard's latest State of GameSalad post for more on this).
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