Game Dev
We probably see a daily login reward system in every game nowadays. It’s a simple reward system that gets the players coming back every day or so. In this article, I’ll show you in detail how to develop a local-stored daily login system in Unity, using the MVC approach.
TLDR; A complete repository can be found here.
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Game Dev
You’ve probably heard about the Model-View-Controller pattern which has been widely adopted in web and app design. The general idea of MVC is to separate the internal representations of information so the projects can be better organized.
Read more “MVC Pattern in Unity – Less Code Dependency and Better Code Architecture”
Game Dev
I’ve been working on a casual game that every level was designed and saved as a prefab. It works great in Editor but not in mobile, especially in Android devices. Each level took a very long time to load and the game became unresponsive for 10+ seconds. We decided to optimize it by turning all level prefabs to scenes so we can use Unity’s addictive scene loading, which also enables progress showing.
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Web Dev
You’re probably familiar with house ads (or cross-promotion ads) in mobile games. Famous game publishers like Vodoo use house ads extensively to cross-promo their products. While you can put the house ads locally and pre-built them in the apps, having a server to serve the API and assets can give you live control of the ads. You can also use this as app event notices, to gives dynamic information and interaction with your users. This article will walk you through how to create the API calls with Laravel step-by-step.
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Life Hack
Today I’m not talking about gaming or tech, but a life hack that saved my (vacuum robot’s) life. If you’re reading this, I believe you screwed things up and being nervous to find the solution, just like what I did.
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Web Dev
Have you ever wanted to add a redeem code feature to your game or app? A redeem code system is always useful for rewarding your users and boost user retention in events, or compensate the angry users for any particular bugs. While there are quite a few free or paid third-party solutions on the market, but making your own gives you more control and customized features as you would like. This article will walk you through how to create API calls and simple console pages with Laravel step-by-step.
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Game Dev
Another year for Global Game Jam and it’s my 4th GGJ. This year is definitely a special one since it’s fully online. I stayed at home over the weekend and simply did a casual solo jam. Here’s just a quick wrap up and showing off the game, Blow My Wig, I made this year.
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Startup
You made a great game/app and it has started giving you revenue. You are able to consider buying users, and it is very important that to get the right player lifetime value (LTV) first so you can have an idea on how much cost per install (CPI) you can afford. This article will explain where to get the raw data and how to calculate the LTV in a spreadsheet.
TLDR; Put your numbers and calculate the LTV in this spreadsheet.
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Game Dev
As a programmer, it is very important to follow a coding standard and make sure others can read and easily understand his code. While there’s not majority guideline of coding standard in Unity and C#, you can/should code whatever you like, but in this article I’m going to show you our style and format guideline within the company. We have tried to adopt different styles throughout these years and came out the one we feel most comfortable.
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Game Dev
We have been working for mobile games in Unity for 8+ years. Throughout these years, we purchased and tried a variety of plugins in the Unity Assets Store. Today I’m here to share the list of some essential plugins that can hopefully make the lives of mobile game devs easier.
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