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GameSalad Creator is an authoring tool developed by GameSalad, Inc. (formerly Gendai Games) aimed primarily at non-programmers for composing games in a drag-and-drop fashion, using visual editors and a behavior-based logic system. It is used by consumers and creative professionals such as graphic designers, animators, and game developers for rapidly prototyping, building and self-publishing cross-platform games and interactive media. The application runs on Mac OS X for producing games for iPhone, it also runs on Windows which is optimised for producing games on Android devices although games developed on Windows have to be converted to Mac OS files to be published to the App Store, web browser-based content in HTML 5, and Android applications.
On December 21, 2009, Macworld Expo partnered with Gendai Games, the developer of GameSalad, for the Macworld 2010 GameSalad Challenge to promote Mac and iPhone game creation before and during the Macworld 2010 conference.
On November 20, 2010, GameSalad unveiled a new "Free to Make" model, making basic membership free to all users, including iOS publishing.
On June 11, 2012, GameSalad unveiled a Windows port of the Mac program, allowing Windows users to create games for iPhones. The basic concept is the same, however major changes to the layout were made and some features are as of yet unsupported.
Between October 3, 2012 and November 27, 2012 GameSalad laid off approximately half of their staff.
GameSalad, Inc., formerly Gendai Games , is an American computer software company that designs and develops authoring tools and web services for game creation. Their flagship product is GameSalad Creator, a game creation system for creative professionals that enables non-programmers to create 2D casual games for Apple's mobile iOS platforms, such as the iPhone and iPad, HTML 5 games, and games for Android devices. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States with an additional office in Los Angeles, California.
Previously called Gendai Games, Inc., in March 2009 the company launched an open beta of its first product, GameSalad. GameSalad is a visual, drag-and-drop based tool for game creation, aimed at people without programming knowledge for building iPhone, iPod, and iPad games. GameSalad is geared to provide support for Apple's iOS platform and devices to take advantage of the latest technology in mobile computing. Users can exchange templates of games online, share their games to GameSalad.com so others can play them in a web browser, and share their games over social networks.
In July 2009, Gendai Games joined the Austin Technology Incubator.
In November 2010, Gendai Games announced it had officially changed its company name to GameSalad, Inc.