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A life time ago I was a ceramicist among other art things. And one thing I love todo was a Seaweed firing. I would say its easier than his method, but i can see his to be more conv…

They had me at the loading sounds. I often crack open my ZXPlecturm app to play those wonderful loading sounds. Chills.

This was way more fun than it should be. Wonderful! Reminds me of Linelight on Steam and my game Kanso, both have 1D game mechanics (but with 2D visuals).

This has convinced me to add prepossessed fill areas on my kids colouring book for iOS. (no IAP, subscription, no ads, etc, like the general sentiment here) Been thinking about thi…

Yeah absolutely, early morning memories of better times.

Thank you! Likewise! I'm not too bothered about Steam's discoverability, its at least honest(ish) about it. The more reviews and sales you get the more its pushed...as far as I can…

I'm also a solo game dev with a recently released game. All this is really spot on with my experience. It just not clear if the author hired an artist or he just recommends it...it…

That has been my impression of the company's games, but only an impression as I don't play their games. I might check out this new mobile game for study though.

Yes. No, each industry has its special flavour of abhorrent behaviour. I'm not 'taring' the entire industry at all. Indeed I said, "vast number of honourable people in the industry…

There will be, for sure, lives ruined because of this game's predatory practices. It really sickens me. To quote myself from a previous thread: "If you could hear the contempt that…

Here here.

Just came here to say congratulations! Releasing a game is a real accomplishment and you should be very proud. Well done!!!

No problem, glad to help!

Realised that was a bit snarky of a comment, I'm using a a modified version of Cocos2dx .v4. It took way longer to create than if I was using Unity, but its a great solution for a …

A computer for the most part. Xcode, I use Xcode for the most part and visual studio for the Steam version.

Yeah sure thing, this is Kanso on iOS (its also on Steam) https://apps.apple.com/app/id1384257762

Total remakes from basically scratch. I've settled on rolling with c++ with no(minimal) external dependancies as the best solution...still using Unity for some projects, its just s…

Yeah, spread that over 20 games/apps. It can really mount up, I can think of other indie game dev's that only publish on iOS that their games are now forever lost. It's a real cult…

If only it where only that simple. There are many dependancies that require some kind of reimplementation, it's a pain. I have made things easier (in the long run) with my last gam…

Some, most of them not.

You are spot on, but that might even be the best case scenario. Thing can quickly turn south and cost quite a bit of time.

Zero, just my time. And the cost of fixing all the problems with new versions of Xcode, Unity, and whatever else was used and has now changed. It can become quite the rabbit hole, …

This has happened to me also (indie game dev) a few years ago. The number is about 20 or so games that have been removed by Apple because they hadn't been updated in two years. The…

oh yeah!! " loading sounds with your own mouth " I feel thats a video or it didn't happen moment.

Damn, I forgot it was the 40th anniversary today! The ZX Spectrum was my first computer and I was a bit too young to write any software for it sadly, but it was my second (TV Pong …