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.
Read more “Removing Small Stripped Screws with Sandpaper”
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.
Read more “Develop Redeem Code API With Laravel For Mobile App/Game”
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.
Read more “Global Game Jam 2021 Quick Wrap Up”
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.
Read more “Calculate Player LTV of Your Game/App in a Spreadsheet”
Game Dev
As a programmer, following a coding standard is crucial to ensure code readability and understandability. While Unity and C# lack a definitive coding standard, you have the freedom to code as you prefer. In this article, we present our internal style and formatting guidelines developed over the years to create a comfortable coding environment.
Read more “Coding Guideline for Unity C#”
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