So, I’ve been making Indie games for years, with very little success, usually because I write obscure little games that don’t usually see much action. So I decided to write something that many gamers do love, an Idle Upgrade Cookie Clicker. I decided to go with the same format as… Read more“Thinking of Making an Indie Game?”
Category: Game and App Development
Game and application development of all kinds
Online Game Stores
Big list of online game vendors for developers and gamers: Steam (Alexa rank 202 G2A (Alexa rank 897 GOG (Alexa rank 2001 Green Man Gaming (Alexa rank 5797 Games Gate (Alexa rank 26250
Big List of Popular Flash, HTML5 and Unity 3D Web Gaming Portals
Big list of web game portals / sites that accept games mainly from Flash, HTML5 and Unity 3D developers: Facebook Alexa rank 3 Y8 Alexa rank 761 Kongregate Alexa rank 1375 Miniclip Alexa rank 1750 Kizi Alexa rank 1816 Newgrounds Alexa rank 2624 Poki Alexa rank 2985 itch.io Alexa rank… Read more“Big List of Popular Flash, HTML5 and Unity 3D Web Gaming Portals”
Cookie Clicker Save the World free game for iOS, Android and Facebook Gameroom
Just released my latest mobile and Facebook game Cookie Clicker Save the World targeted at raising awareness of climate change in a fun and challenging gaming environment. Gamers playing the game are gradually introduced to various climate issues and what can be done to help, such as recycling, using wind… Read more“Cookie Clicker Save the World free game for iOS, Android and Facebook Gameroom”
Upgrading from Unity 5.4 to 5.6
Recently had the need to upgrade a couple of projects from Unity 5.4 to 5.6 and after much trial and error and scouring the net for solutions I finally managed it. My project uses two plugins which do not play well with Unity 5.6, these include: TextMeshPro – Do not… Read more“Upgrading from Unity 5.4 to 5.6”
From Unity 3D to Facebook Hosted!
So I decided to have a go at getting one of my mobile games up and running on Facebook’s site, chatting to other game developers they warned me to steer clear as its a pain and it will eventually break when they change to the next API release etc… Of… Read more“From Unity 3D to Facebook Hosted!”
Facebook now host Games up to 500MB!
I’m usually so busy that I miss cool stuff sometimes, anyway, I’ve discovered today that Facebook will now host WebGL (including Unity) and HTML5 game content for you for free. So gone are the days of having to host your own and get a SSL certificate etc.. There are some… Read more“Facebook now host Games up to 500MB!”
Booty5 HTML5 Game Maker 1.9.3b out now – Droidscript support added
It has been a long while since I released an update of Booty5, but at last it is here. A good fellow over at Droidscript got in touch to let me know that they had added a plugin for their awesome app (check it out to see what I mean… Read more“Booty5 HTML5 Game Maker 1.9.3b out now – Droidscript support added”
Colour Cycle Effect Unity Shader
Just added a new colour cycle effect transparent Unity shader to the free shaders collection. This shader can be used to overlay a y-axis colour cycle effect over a texture The code for the shader is shown below: [sourcecode language=”js”] Shader "Unlit/ColourCycleTexture" { Properties { _MainTex("Color (RGB) Alpha (A)", 2D)… Read more“Colour Cycle Effect Unity Shader”
Wavy Text Unity Shader
Just added a new wavy transparent shader to the free shaders collection. This shade can be used to apply x and y axis waves to textures which looks nice on bitmapped based text, e.g.: The code for the shader is shown below: [sourcecode language=”js”] Shader "Unlit/WaveTransTexture" { Properties { _MainTex("Color… Read more“Wavy Text Unity Shader”