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Pros
Pro Extensive community of seasoned professionals for support
The GameSalad community is highly active and very helpful. Extensive community of seasoned professionals in all disciplines (graphics, game design, animation, physics, music, video production, marketing, etc.) producing tutorials, videos, publishing tips, free templates and who are willing to answer forum questions and help newcomers.
Pro Free standalone viewer app allows instant, live mobile device testing
The GameSalad Viewer is a free app available for iOS, Android and Kindle. Once installed on your mobile devices, you can deploy and test your GameSalad games live on any mobile device running the Viewer that is on the same local network as your dev computer.
This even allows Windows users to test their games on iOS devices without a Mac device and without any complicated code signing or provisioning profiles.
And, you can even take your games with you -- once loaded onto your mobile device, a history option caches recent games on your device without any connection to the dev computer.
Cons
Con Product is in limbo
Company is lacking developers, company leadership and there's no voice from corporate. Some customers are currently in a holding pattern from the lack of support and messaging from GS corporate. Communication from staff could be better. Current build is stable.