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braco_alva

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About braco_alva

I'm the co-founder of 502 Studios, an independent games studio. bryan@502Studios.net

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    "Game Programming Patterns" has been of huge help throughout my career and it's always my go to recommendation for new game programmers and reading your comment makes me feel even …

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    This exact thing happened to me too. They claimed click fraud and terminated my account. It was 10 years ago, and I have tried to make an appeal about it but always with the same r…

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    Comment #6866359

    For what I see on the Showcase games, they are canvas, but I really hope it supports webgl also, looks like an interesting library.

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    Comment #6788710

    I don't know about the resources part, but the installation should be easy using Bitnami http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab

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    Comment #6673370

    Good post! I specially liked the "Why should people bother playing the game I make?" part. I keep making myself this question over and over again, and your answer really clicked wi…

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    Ask HN: Experiences using Payoneer?

    This is a question mostly for non US folks, has anyone used Payoneer US Payment Service to sell paid apps on the Play Store or to charge with Paypal, Amazon, etc...? I've been thin…

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    Comment #6501789

    Glad to hear I'm not the only one, the whole concept looks really interesting, but for a walkthrough, the Cat.random thing is kind of confusing.

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    Comment #6325339

    AFAIK it only does NaCl besides their Web Player.

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    Comment #6131452

    I think they're just referring to the subcategory in the Play Store, but yeah, almost any mobile game could be labeled as Casual.

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    Comment #6024454

    That would be awesome if you do it!

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    Comment #5849779

    Sorry, that blog it is not mine, I just stumbled upon the post and thought it was interesting, didn't know it wasn't the original source.

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    Comment #5766083

    This is really bad news for latin american developers, as far as I know, Argentina was one of the few latin american countries that were able to sell in the Play Store and now it's…

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    Comment #5741053

    Could this mean that could expand the number of countries that were supported by checkout? I really hope so, not being able to sell in the Play Store/Chrome Web Store is something …

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    I agree with you, I'm not saying that the video can be low quality because it doesn't matter, just that the content is far more important to them, but yeah, I think is better if yo…

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    I think he was talking about what the founders say in the video, not the quality of the video itself.

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    Comment #5447671

    This looks good, but one of the things that could stop us from using it, is Paypal, we can't withdraw money from Paypal where we are located.