About 5 months ago, I released Thermometers Puzzles on all major mobile platforms. On Google Play, downloads were quite decent and reached 50,000 players a few weeks ago. I took some time to extract data gathered with Game Analytics SDK and analyze the behavior of 50,128 Android players. Part #1: Pack completion Levels are grouped… Continue reading Behavior Analysis of 50,000 Mobile Players
Category: Game Design
Statistics and Fun Facts About the Players of Don’t Feed the Trolls
Two weeks after a post about the sales and the ads revenue of Don’t Feed the Trolls, here’s another statistics post, this time about the players of the game. Don’t Feed the Trolls is a reflex game released in May on iPhone/iPad and Android (Google Play and Amazon). Feel free to try it, it’s a… Continue reading Statistics and Fun Facts About the Players of Don’t Feed the Trolls
Gameplay of Don’t Feed the Trolls
Here is a description of the gameplay of Don’t Feed the Trolls. If you don’t know it yet, it will be available soon for iPhone/iPad/iPod and Android devices. The gameplay is simple : bears and trolls spawn on the screen, you need to feed the bears and slap the trolls with the touch screen. Ten… Continue reading Gameplay of Don’t Feed the Trolls
Achievements/Rewards statistics for Spring Up Harmony
Spring Up Harmony PC was released a few months ago, it’s now a good time to study statistics of the rewards (or achievements) of the game. Rewards are a good way to see what the players are really doing in the game. These are the stats of online players that played the full version of… Continue reading Achievements/Rewards statistics for Spring Up Harmony
Never released game design and prototype #2 : DJ Machine
This is the second post of the series, you can read the introduction of the series in the first post. Project 13 I will talk about a prototype called “DJ Machine” (Project 13), that I started while Spring Up Harmony (PC X360) was being approved for Xbox Live Indie Games. I was looking for something… Continue reading Never released game design and prototype #2 : DJ Machine
Never released game design and prototype #1 : Museum Director
Last week-end, I ditched a prototype of a game because it was not as fun as I thought. It gave me the idea to blog about some of the game design documents and prototypes I made that were never released. It can really be interesting, because: If everyone agrees that the design sucks: I’ll definitely stop thinking… Continue reading Never released game design and prototype #1 : Museum Director
Spring Up Harmony PC – Rewards and Tips
Hi, the release of Spring Up Harmony PC will probably happen in the following weeks. Here is a post about the rewards included in the game and some tips for the hard ones. Beginner: Complete the first level of the game Top Scorer: Score 200,000 points in one level. Tip: Choose your level carefully when… Continue reading Spring Up Harmony PC – Rewards and Tips
Video : Dynamic level demo and background effect update
The development of Spring Up XNA has been going pretty well last week. Here is a new video, please note that it is still not the final art, just placeholders for now : You can see the following: New ways of using the physics engine in the levels (joints, gravity…) Small improvements on the background… Continue reading Video : Dynamic level demo and background effect update
Video : Level Editor
I am mostly working on the level editor. I was not sure when I started this project that I would need a specific level editor. But Spring Up! X360 needs some serious changes in the level design to improve the quality and to adapt to the X360 platform, therefore I need this new level editor.… Continue reading Video : Level Editor
Spring Up! XNA : first try at background effects
I spend some time trying to create an interesting visual effect in the background of Spring Up! XNA. The backgrounds of the PC/Mac versions are not really nice. I tried to do something more abstract and animated depending on the flow of the game. Geometry Wars 1 and 2 did a very good job at… Continue reading Spring Up! XNA : first try at background effects