GameSalad is a company that offers up a third-party development and publishing that allows anyone, even people who can’t code, to use their (GameSalad) SDK, make a game, and then publish it to the web or other platforms like Apple’s App Store.
This week GameSalad continued in that focus with a service called GameSalad Direct. Previously, developers could pay a fee to remove GameSalad’s branding from apps, and then sell to the App Store under their own Apple developer accounts. That’ll work for GameSalad devs for now, but when accounts expire, it will all move to GameSalad Direct. Direct will be free for devs publishing free games or will pay a fee for publishers wanting to sell paid apps.
It all means that GameSalad game devs won’t use their Apple accounts any more - everything created by GameSalad will need to be published under the GameSalad banner. Some GameSalad subscribers are not happy with this move and we all know Apple won’t be too happy either since these GS developers won’t have a direct developer account with Apple.
What do you think? Is this cheating Apple’s system by not having to have an Apple Developer account? Seems like a cheap idea to me, why not get an Apple Dev license and learn to make your own apps. Mike Rundle wrote an interesting post, Be Curious, Be Dangerous, this week about being curious and learning new things. It makes us better all around and only benefits you for the future.
