In this post I’d like to review and discuss the status of my mobile games (mostly Android). I’ll share the download numbers, ads stats, and income report. The first thing worth mentioning – I’ve spend little to no money on these mobile games. I’ve purchased a Unity 3d game template for the trivia games at 10$. … Read more
I’ve introduced Jelly Wars in my previous post – it’s a strategy board game for Android, similar to Reversi and Go. In this post, I’ll discuss a bit about the development process of the game. Overview Jelly Wars was developed from scratch in Unity3d and C#. It consists of a main menu, a game scenes … Read more
Jelly Wars is another Android game I’ve released a few weeks ago. This game is a bit different than my previous games – instead of relying on a Unity3d template, I’ve developed it from scratch. I’ll have a post about the development soon, but I want to start by introducing the game. Jell Wars is … Read more
In my previous post, I introduced my latest Android game – Down the hill – a one-click game, based on the the Emoji Down the hill template. In this post, I’d like to discuss the development process and changes I made to the template. Handling the “premium” features The template comes with a few “premium” … Read more
Down the hill is a new android game I’ve created based on the Unity3d template Emoji Down The Hill by SgLib. I’ll discuss the development changes I’ve implemented in the game in the next post, but for now, I’d just wanted to introduce the game. Down the hill is a simple and addictive one-click game, … Read more
I’ve found an cute Android game template in the Unity3d assets store: Droppy Dot by App Advisory: These guys have lots and lots of assets in the store – most of them low priced and are used to promote their more expensive assets. Back to the template, I’ve noticed that there are a few exact … Read more
Once again, I’ve tackled the process of gathering enough data in order to create a new trivia Android game. And once again, I went for a music-related them – Aerosmith Trivia – America’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band. You can download the game here: This game was quite hard to gather the data for – … Read more
With the success of The Beatles Trivia, I’ve decided to try implementing an additional music-related trivia Android game – 3 Doors Down Trivia – after the American rock band. The game is based on 7 albums, 73 songs, hundreds of lyrics, 9 people (past and current band members), and events, and has 9 different types of questions. … Read more
This is another post in my TV Shows Trivia game serie. In our last post we used TvMaze to retrieve information about various tv shows. After retrieving around 1600 shows, I came to the conclusion that the data was a bit too much – it’s not enough to have the data, we need to be able … Read more
In our previous post we discussed representing TV shows data as a graph using objects and their relations. In this post, we’ll see how to gather the information needed for our trivia game. There are a few websites that allow you to follow up on the show you watch, such as Rotten Tomatoes and TheTvDB. I’ve … Read more
Following my trivia games, I’ve decided to start working on a TV shows trivia. The first step of creating a trivia game, is to make sure I have enough data, and that I can represent it in a way that my engine can generate questions.Representing the data for TV shows as nodes in a graph … Read more
RavenDb provides a push notifications mechanism, named Changes API, that allows you to receive messages from a server about events that occurred there. This mechanism makes is extremely simple to create a ChangeMonitor class that can be used with CacheItemPolicy, in order to expire cache items when something happens on the server (such as a document being … Read more