What a cool program this little bugger is man. I use to play around with Click Team Game Factory, MMF1.5, 2, and dev. When they release the flash export it was like super cool and when they said they were going to have an IOS Export I was like heck yeah... time to make games for Apple and make some money. I was sadden when I read their tutorial on how to export to IOS.
"Simply Click and create with our drag and drop visual interface and amazing event editor. Then a touch of button MMF will build you your xCode project, Move it to your mac and compile it to your iDevice and test it. Once you happy with your app simply submit it to Apple. MMF2 will build everything you need to submit to them, It's that easy."
"Then a touch of button MMF will build you your xCode project, Move it to your mac and compile it to your iDevice and test it."
What!, this is not like the Flash Export where it compile everything for you. NOOOOOO!!!!
Reason is I don't own a Mac but do understand how to use one and will get one some day.
So in the end this what it came down too,
MMF2 Dev :$369.00 USD
IOS Export: $129.00 USD
Mac Mini : $599.00 USD (Cheapest Mac Computer on Apple website, no upgrade. stander stock hardware)
Apple Dev : $99.00 USD
Total: $1196.00 USD
That's a lot of money spent just trying to make a game for the IOS device.
Come on, really really, but yeah no heart feeling for them. Don't get me wrong I do still love their product and still use their product to make windows and Java games tho. Not like I am bashing them or anything, but that's just a lot of money spent making game for side hobby.
Until I stumble upon scirra.com while Googleing
Free CS2 : $0 USD
HTML5: $0 USD
On IOS Device : Free
On Android Device : Free
Windows Phone : Free
Total With Mac Mini: $599.00 USD
Total Without Mac Mini: $0.00 USD
CS2 Standard: $35 USD then now $79 USD
Apple Market : $99.00 USD
HTML5: $0 USD
Android Market $25 USD
Mac Mini : $599.00 USD
Little Googleing And SDK Help : FREE
Total: with both market and Mac Mini $802 USD
Total: without both market and Mac Mini $35 USD
SC2 Business: $365 USD
Apple Market : $99.00 USD
HTML5: $0 USD
Android Market $25 USD
Mac Mini : $599.00 USD
Little Googleing And SDK Help : FREE
Total: with both market and Mac Mini $1088 USD
Total: without both market and Mac Mini $365 USD
So in the end Scirra Construct 2 is by far the best program for me in a long shot for a hobbyist.
No coding like in Game Maker, Ummm you got the Javascript SDK and the Call Javascript plugin by Joe7, and the Ajax plugin. So code away
O and in my thoughts and opinion coming from a web developer it is easy for me to pick up.
Thanks Ashley for such a great program.