Gendai Games
Encyclopedia
GameSalad, Inc., formerly Gendai Games , is an American
computer
software
company that designs and develops authoring tools and web service
s 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. 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 network
s.
In July 2009, Gendai Games joined the Austin Technology Incubator.
In November of 2010, Gendai Games announced it had officially changed its company name to GameSalad, Inc.
United States
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computer
Computer
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software
Computer software
Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....
company that designs and develops authoring tools and web service
Web service
A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...
s 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. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
with an additional office in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
.
Previously called Gendai Games, Inc., in March 2009 the company launched an open beta of its first product, GameSalad
GameSalad
GameSalad Creator is an authoring tool developed by GameSalad, Inc. aimed primarily at non-programmers for composing games in a drag-and-drop fashion, utilizing visual editors and a behavior-based logic system...
. GameSalad is a visual, drag-and-drop
Drag-and-drop
In computer graphical user interfaces, drag-and-drop is the action of selecting a virtual object by "grabbing" it and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object...
based tool for game creation, aimed at people without programming knowledge for building iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
, 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 network
Social network
A social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...
s.
In July 2009, Gendai Games joined the Austin Technology Incubator.
In November of 2010, Gendai Games announced it had officially changed its company name to GameSalad, Inc.