Three.js
As a game developer, I’m excited to share the technical journey behind Planet Blue Invasion, now live on Stake.com. This isn’t just another casino game—it’s a showcase of what’s possible when you combine modern web graphics technology with innovative game design.
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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.
Create a Daily Login Reward System in Unity
TLDR; A complete repository can be found here.
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Game Dev
MVC, short for Model-View-Controller, is a pattern that has gained widespread adoption in web and app design. It focuses on separating the internal representations of information to enhance project organization. This concept can also be applied in game development to cultivate a more organized programming habit.
Read more “MVC Pattern in Unity – Less Code Dependency and Better Code Architecture”
Game Dev
I’ve been developing a casual game where each level is designed and saved as a prefab. While it works fine in the Editor, it causes severe performance issues in mobile devices, especially Android. The game freezes for over 10 seconds whenever a level is loaded. To solve this problem, we decided to optimize the game by converting all the level prefabs into scenes. This allows us to utilize Unity’s addictive scene loading, which also enables us to show loading progress.
Read more “Optimize Large Prefab Loading To Addictive Scene Loading with PrefabSceneConverter”
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, 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.
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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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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?”