GameSalad (company)

This article is about the company. For the software product manufactured by it, see GameSalad.

GameSalad, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Interactive entertainment Computer software Digital distribution
Founded	Austin, Texas (2007)
Founder	Michael Agustin Dan Treiman Tan Tran
Headquarters	Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California, USA
Area served	Worldwide;
Products	GameSalad
Website	gamesalad.com

GameSalad, Inc., formerly Gendai Games (/ɡɛnˈdaɪ/ gen-DY), 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.

External links

• Company website