![]() As a company, we're trying to push more toward sophisticated developers. ![]() We have a lot of interest in the education sector, it helps a lot and teaches people basic game design. In terms of more sophisticated developers comfortable with coding, the speed to market with not actually having to recode for each platform, we think it's become a much more appealing option. I can foresee a future where people can get to the bulk of what they want to get done through a visual interface. In the 80s, everyone used the command line and with the advent of the GUI, we don't even think of a command line. You shouldn't have to spend all your time to focus on syntax. SF: We want to go to a future of flow charts and make the nuts and bolts of programming much more accessible. You can choose Android, which puts it in the Nook Store, Amazon store, Google Play, for iOS it goes on the App Store.īI: Where do you guys go from here? Are you guys just sticking with games? When publishing, you just pick the platforms you want to target. SF: The interface allows you to create all those game mechanics, we've extracted the platform you're publishing to. Lots more users are using us for speed-to-market and cross-platform.īI: Does it work across all mobile platforms? Apple and Android simultaneously? The sheer effort required to code can be reduced as well. They're seeing us as a way to speed up their development cycles, so they can publish to Android and iOS and HTML5. Over the recent months as we've been supporting more platforms, we're starting to attract more traditional developers too. People that know their way around Adobe Creative Suite, they have a sense for design but not the coding skills. SF: We get a pretty wide spectrum of users, historically the biggest resonance has been with design-oriented folks. But utility apps are something we'll consider in the future.īI: What does a typical GameSalad user look like? A coder or a designer? ![]() We've already seen people use the platform for eBooks and visual comments, so we'll probably stick with the content and digital media space now. In terms of focus, if we can get games, we can do anything. SF: It's because games are the hardest things to do. He ended up democratizing game development and making it useful to users that don't have a CS background.īI: Why did you guys start with games? What about streamlining the process for apps in general? What he noticed was he had come up with a tool that was accessible to non-programmers. Our cofounder thought, "what if we created a tool set that extracted the most common features in a game." If he could abstract that into tool sets, it would help studios develop games quickly. A lot of the technology had been commercialized at Carnegie Mellon, initially it was how to develop tools for "rapid prototyping" in the gaming industry. SF: The company was started officially in 2009, three founders had come from an engineering background. We've seen 60 games reach the top 100 in the US App Store. We're now at over 300,000 developers that have build over 60,000 games, 10,000 of them on the iOS app store. Last year, a little more than 15 percent of games in the iOS App Store were built using GameSalad. We started with iOS, that's where we had the bulk of our success, and we recently expanded into Android and HTML5. We're accessible to a much larger audience that has the potential to develop games but doesn't build them because they don't have the skills. STEVE FELTER: GameSalad is a game creation platform, it's a visual-based system that requires no coding. Here's a lightly edited transcript of the full conversation:īUSINESS INSIDER: What exactly is GameSalad? What do you guys do? The co-founders simply decided that games were the most difficult use case, and if they could do that, they could do anything.Ĭheckout how easy it is to create a game using GameSalad: It's a favorite among designers that don't have the coding chops to make a game. Some of the most popular games on the App Store have come from GameSalad.You can build apps, too, but the platform is currently intended to just work with games. GameSalad has more than 300,000 developers already building games. ![]() We caught up with Steve Felter, CEO of GameSalad, to find out what the company is doing. Steve Felter is CEO and co-founder of GameSalad (Click Image To Enlarge) You could even make Angry Birds without ever having to crack open a command line. Instead of using complicated programming languages, you can build a game within GameSalad using a bunch of pictures and flow charts that describe what you want to do with the app. You aren't entirely out of luck: GameSalad is here for you. Ever wanted to create a game or app, but don't know how to program?
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