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.
Read more “8 Must-Have Unity Plugins for Mobile Game Dev”
Startup
So, you made a great game and many of your friends love it. Here’s come to one of the biggest challenges of many indie developers – how to promote the game with a minimum budget? We are not marketing experts, but here are a few things we learnt on promoting our games and acquire users with zero dollars:
Read more “How to acquire users with $0 budget for indie developers.”
Game Dev
After you make a great game, it is very crucial that you find a good Ad network(s) that gives you a stable revenue, so you can focus on what you good at — developing game. There’s already a lot of in-depth articles listing each one of them. This article will show you how our experience trying different networks with (biased) opinions on them, and list a few more options that may not be well-known but suitable for indie developers like us.
Read more “Which Ad networks to use in mobile games for indie developers?”
Startup
We use Wix to build up our Block 42 website. It is a great tool that makes web design easy and saved us a lot of time, even saved us the need to hire/outsource a professional web designer/developer.
Read more “Setup Free External Mailboxes in Wix and Avoid Spammed”
Game Dev
We decided to make our top puzzle-solving game, “Rainmaker: The Beautiful Flood”, free for lifetime. It was originally $US 1.99 before.
Rainmaker is a minimalist puzzle game first released on 1 Feb 2016. It got featured by Apple as the best new game and obtained:
#1 iOS Puzzle Game in 3 countries
#13 iOS Puzzle Game in UK
#23 iOS Puzzle Game in US
Game Dev
Recently, we have a performance issue on our macOS build. The game runs smoothly in low-end Windows laptops but laggy in a 2016 Macbook. Although the hardware of the Macbook is not even as good as the Windows laptop, we doubted the performance would be much different. In addition, it runs alright in Editor in Macbook but not in a build, so the hardware influence should be able to be ignored.
Read more “Optimize for macOS Performance and Fix Fullscreen Letterbox Issue in Unity Build”
Startup
It’s been a few years I haven’t maintained my website/blog, while I dedicated all of my time on my startup mobile game company, Sweaty Chair Studio. It is a hard time and many sleepless nights throughout the years, especially developing games in Australia where there’s not much support from the government.
Read more “Hello world!”