Topic: Maximizing your Ad Revenue with Chartboost

This month, Dan Droller of Chartboost will talk about how to maximize your ad revenue (w/ Chartboost)!

Same bowl-time, same bowl-place.

If you're showing up at the Office, we're in building 2, 2nd floor! Let us know here: http://www.meetup.com/GameSalad/events/227230839/

If you're gonna lurk online, you can find the usual webinar info at:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/5276049793597111809

Braydon_SFX will be presenting the talk:
Time Based Reward Systems in GameSalad

Description: Retention is an important part of creating a successful application, and reward systems are one way to entice your users to visit your game frequently. While you can create reward systems that are local on the device, there are potential issues with this strategy: players can change the device time and cheat the system to earn new rewards. But rejoice! With the introduction of the Network behaviors in GameSalad, we can now create systems that will look to online servers for data instead of the local device. Using the free app analytics system, Appformative, we can easily create reward systems that cannot be cheated; all without having to set up our own servers. The presentation will include:

-Setting up the necessary information on Appformative.com
-Creating the reward system in GameSalad Creator
-Becoming more familiar with the Network behaviors
-Best practices on when to call and retrieve information from online servers

Notes on location:

GameSalad is located on the 2nd floor of building 2.

If you can't join us in person, join us online

Description:
Hopscotch will be presenting the talk:
How indies compete with the big fish on a $0 budget

You have passionately slaved for months to complete your game.
Now you feel it is done and can't wait to throw it on the app stores.

Stop! Your efforts deserve a few simple extra steps to give your game it's best shot in the real world.

Allow me to convince you that marketing, engagement, retention and a good monetisation strategy, is easy, fun, and necessary, by looking at:

• How, when and where to best use ads
• How to increase user retention
• Social media options (Facebook, Twitter, Email)
• Soft-launching and AB-Testing
• Marketing for indies, ASO and Keywords

Come learn about GameSalad and meet other GameSalad creators. Chat with some of the developers behind GameSalad, including GameSalad's own Steve Jakab (a.k.a stevej), Alan Uthoff (a.k.a. BlackCloakGS), Tan Tran (a.k.a. adent42)

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Description:
Lost_Oasis_Games will be presenting the talk:
Harnessing the physics engine and other unconventional things:
We'll be looking at getting control of the physics engine and selecting the right physics behavior for the job. I'll be demonstrating some ways I used mechanics and the physics engine. We'll also look at how I created a swimming feel to the controls of my ocean HTML 5 game.

Come learn about GameSalad and meet other GameSalad creators. Chat with some of the developers behind GameSalad, including GameSalad's own Steve Jakab (a.k.a stevej), Alan Uthoff (a.k.a. BlackCloakGS), Tan Tran (a.k.a. adent42)

If you can't join us in person, join us online

Come learn about GameSalad and meet other GameSalad creators. Chat with some of the developers behind GameSalad, including GameSalad's own Steve Jakab (a.k.a stevej), Alan Uthoff (a.k.a. BlackCloakGS), Tan Tran (a.k.a. adent42)

Description:
RThurman will be presenting talk about:
In 1660 Robert Hooke invented the watch spring so that people didn’t have to rely on pendulum clocks to tell time. In so doing, he came up with Hooke’s Law – the law of springiness. Then he got mad and had a big fight with Isaac Newton over who invented gravity so everybody decided to forget about him. But they couldn’t forget his law of elasticity! Now Hooke’s law is used everywhere! This presentation will show how to use Hooke’s Law to make your actors come alive with elasticity. You will see how to make buttons jiggle like Jello, sliders move like they’re attached to rubber bands, and the camera shake like an earthquake. (Hooke was really into earthquakes!)

We might even see a demonstration on how to make a bobble-head doll! (Hooke would be so proud!)

If you can't join us in person, join us online

Come learn about GameSalad and meet other GameSalad creators. Chat with some of the developers behind GameSalad, including GameSalad's own Steve Jakab (a.k.a stevej), Alan Uthoff (a.k.a. BlackCloakGS), Tan Tran (a.k.a. adent42)

Description:

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Edit: Updated topic.

Come learn about GameSalad and meet other GameSalad creators. Chat with some of the developers behind GameSalad, including GameSalad's own Steve Jakab (a.k.a stevej), Alan Uthoff (a.k.a. BlackCloakGS), Tan Tran (a.k.a. adent42)

Talk: Armelline from the GameSalad Forums will be presenting

Getting to know and love the Expression Editor

Description:
A look at the less commonly used and more advanced functions found in the expression editor, including ln, log10, exp, sin, cos, mod, vectorToAngle, and the string functions

If you can't join us in person, join us online

Come learn about GameSalad and meet other GameSalad creators. Chat with some of the developers behind GameSalad, including GameSalad's own Jonathan Samn (better known to some of you as CodeMonkey), Steve Jakab (a.k.a stevej), Alan Uthoff (a.k.a. BlackCloakGS), Tan Tran (a.k.a. adent42) This week there will be an extra special surprise!

Talk: RThurman from the GameSalad Forums will be presenting

Train GameSalad to Read Your Mind!

Description:
This demonstration will show how to set up GameSalad to recreate Richard Marken's famous “Mind Reading” experimental program. (A version of the original program can be found at: http://www.mindreadings.com/ControlDemo/Mindread.html ) Using this setup you will be able to get GameSalad to determine a game player’s intentions -- in effect, reading the player’s mind. Using “Perceptual Control Theory” you will set up GameSalad to constantly determine which variable the user is trying to control. This “test for the controlled variable” will show us the user’s purposeful intention. It is the user’s purposeful behavior that reveals what he is concentrating on. (What is on the players mind.)

If you can't join us in person, join us online

Come learn about GameSalad and meet other GameSalad creators. Chat with some of the developers behind GameSalad, including GameSalad's own Jonathan Samn (better known to some of you as CodeMonkey), Steve Jakab (a.k.a stevej), Alan Uthoff (a.k.a. BlackCloakGS), Tan Tran (a.k.a. adent42)

Talk: PureEpicStudios from the GameSalad Forums will be presenting

Talk for the Jun 4: PureEpicStudios from the GameSalad Forums will be presenting

Real Time Strategy Game Individual Tracking Mechanics!

Description: Learn how PureEpicStudios RTS targeting template works .

Meetup Video Recording

The recording of Septembers' Meet up: