Making Global turn-based strategy for Android. Playtests start next Saturday. - Android Apps and Games

In 2010 I entered indie gamedev having a dream to make my own Civilization, which will be better than Sid Meyer's. Now I have 25 games released (among them there are 3 turn-based strategies) and I feel ready to fulfil my dream.
I must've created the devlog here earlier, so, now together with feature list I'll post their completion status
Game features
Focus your attention on really strategic issues. No need to issue orders to every warrior or a worker. Actually, there will be no individual units. Everything: see superiority, recon missions, building, wars are defined by numbers and formulas. They are defined by the primary directions, which are set by you.
Implemented: projects system for recon, expansion, city and terrain improvement, colonization.
Needed: war system, current projects rebalansing
Flexible technology tree. Your technological advance will be defined by what your people are doing and its environment Coastal nations will sooner advance in seafaring, while the steppes dwellers will be likely to become a major land conquering power. This will be more interesting than "Let's learn alphabet to open a way to catapults"
Implemented: initial development of sea technology
Needed: other technology branches: agriculture, war, construction, politics, philosiophy
Achieve your aim using hard- and soft-power. You can influence your neighbours, get them into your alliance, establish a puppet government or initiate a rebellion in their provinces.
Implemented: getting the colonies in your zone of influence or (if colony AI task) working to declare independence.
Needed: acquiring independent states into your zone of influence. Inspiring rebellions in the other player's colonies
Even if your country is captured, you can stay in the game as a rebellion leader. Gather enough resistance points to revolt and declare independence!
not iplemented yet
And if you expanded too much, neglecting other development sides, get ready to fight the separatism at your empire's suburbs.
Implemented: this comes naturally in the current gameplay system as the capital won't have enough soft-power produced to keep the growing provinces under its power
Needed: coefficients ballansing
As you progress you'll see the chapters from the future history textbooks telling about your glorious deeds and giving slight hints on your future development.
not iplemented yet
New civilizations will appear in the unoccupied territories during the game. They will receive a bonus for quicker expansion.
not iplemented yet
Map generator creates realistically looking planet with continents, archipelagos with climatic zones, rives, highlands.
Implemented
Unique names for the map objects and countries are generated.
Implemented
Game will be available both for mobile and desktop
Implemented
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I think, mobile devices lack these type of games now. My personal best are a series of EasyPlay (but they are more Risk, than Civ) and "Musket Smoke" (this is an ingenious game, but it's a wargame).
So, on the 17th of September I'll share the pre-alpha to play on Android and in Web.

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[APP][GAME]ScanDroid Kingdoms Alpha testing help. Barcode scanning Battle RPG

Im working on a game, currently in early stages of development.
It's already pretty fun, and online-play testing should start within a week.
Already has promise, and I want COMMUNITY involvement to make the game even better. I want this game to be developed based on others' thoughts. not just my own.
please give me an email i can contact you at, and ill get you into the dev boards we use for communication and alpha rollouts.
Here's a small idea of what I have in mind.
Medieval/Fantasy Type world
The game is heavily Text/form based, with some graphics here and there(much more in late dev).
You will be able to choose creature types too. (fire/water/earth/etc)
There is going to be an avatar picture you can choose for your creature as well, that will be shown in various parts of the game(stats page, battling, etc)
The ScanDroid Kingdoms are a consortium of people among the world united by their “battle games”. Each Kingdoms’ Power in the world is directly a result of their noble people’s might in the arenas.
You are a person who trains and battles the wild creatures found in the kingdoms.
These creatures(guardians) are vicious, mean, and dangerous. Think of them like serious, evil, bloody pokemon-like monsters. Haha.
There are arenas in the different kingdoms you will be able to register your guardian at(for Online Play). They can fight others at that arena online. There will also be district(muliti kingdom) arenas and a world arena.
Ranked and unranked battles can be had. Ranked battles take place at the arenas. Unranked take place elsewhere.
Ranked battles have higher risk and rewards (TBD)
You train your guardian by doing daily barcode scans to acquire EXP, items, and other things.
You also train by battling NPCs via scanning barcodes that turn into creatures.
There will eventually be some sort of questing involved too. Still TBD.
Your creatures stats right now are as follows:
Strength
Dexterity
Speed
Stamina
Luck
Sanity
Hunger
Leveling up your creature will increase its stats and its avatars appearance will change at certain points in relation.
Again, please give me an email i can contact you at, and ill get you into the dev boards we use for communication and alpha rollouts.
Get back to my pm ASAP please.

[GAME] [2.2+] Underworld - the First Smuggling MMO

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The twist? The game's online and location based, so the action unfolds in parallel to your real life and you get to interact with real people around you! Sounds crazy? Yes it does. The drill is simple: get cheap merch from drug labs, move around and sell for profit. Acquire better equipment as you grow your operation and widen your crew to gain more power. Rise to the top of your hood, become the most prominent dealer in your city, then take over the country and the whole world!
The game is coming out on Android very soon. Subscribe to be the first one to know about the game’s release and stay posted on the availability for iOS and other platforms.
We are one of those teams who are crazy about listening to our players and fans, so no matter what you have to say, just do it! And if you love the game, don't forget to spread the word and share with friends.
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[GAME][3.0+] Trump vs World

Here is the game that will give you comment around the world and with more controversy of all time, a fun and politically incorrect game.
Become a US president and destroy as many dummy enemies as you jump and run on an imaginary wall.
Be quick and watch the construction work of the wall, the blocks advance at a dizzying speed, the builders will not stop
Select characters similar to Donald Trump, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton among others.
100% unofficial, not endorsed by Donald Trump
How far can you go until you reach the White House?
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- Over 30 enemies
- Walls, forgiveness, randomly constructed blocks of levels.
- Infinite levels
- Share your score with your friends.
IMPORTANT NOTICE (Disclaimer):
This game is a political satire, all the characters are totally fictional, any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence.
This game is only for purposes of humor and entertainment, it should not be taken seriously.
If for some reason you do not see fit, do not download it.
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Next Business Tycoon 2

Always wanted to become a Business Tycoon and run your own company but didn't have the chance? this is the place for you! Next Business Tycoon is a super realistic tycoon game in which you manage your own company!
First choose a location on the global map then start developing your company - concessions, transportation, resources, research and development and many many more!
** New in Next Business Tycoon 2 **
- G20 - the group of 20 top industrials countries are now placed in world map.
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- Biggest banks in the world are now placed in the world map allowing loans at different rates.
- Main screen switched from company screen to world map where all countries sites and companies reside.
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In Next Business Tycoon you dont only have to be a good business manager, you also have to be aware of the competition. In Next Business Tycoon you compete against other companies, form alliances attack other companies and many more!
As you move up the stairs on your way to become a business tycoon you will advance in levels and new interesting features will reveal like the stock market and alliances. Be sure to always put money on research and development or your company will be left behind!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.michael.next_business_tycoon_2&hl=en

New App: Customizable tales for Kids

Introducing Myskazka, an educational fairy tale service for preschool children. The service contains educational, educational, and therapeutic fairy tales with personal variables. These are stories available to the user both in text form and in the format of audio tales. The mission of the project is to make life easier for parents and make their children happier.
According to experts, more than 90% of psychological problems come from childhood, which is why it is so important to address them as they arise. However, most parents simply don't have the time or moral strength to pay enough attention to them because of their daily routines and busy schedules at work. Often children simply "go headfirst" into gadgets, which the child wastes time on. At the same time, all parents are looking for a service that would simultaneously educate, help the child solve their problems, and allow them to spend their leisure time in a meaningful way. All of this is combined in the service MySkazka, in which you can spend time with a gadget really useful, reading or listening to stories. Psychologists have proven that reading a personalized fairy tale to a child increases the ability to adapt to the adult world and helps quickly resolve difficult situations, as well as foster the child's correct attitude towards life. Thanks to fairy tales, tolerance for others and acceptance of oneself are fostered, and a feeling of comfort and safety is created.
In this article, we want to talk about the service, as well as about the technology we used in our work. Here is what the service's founder Ivan Glushkov says about creating MySkazka: "The idea actually lay on the surface, since almost all small children ask their parents to tell them a story about themselves. I myself remember being told a fairy tale about Vanya as a child.Perhaps these fond memories gave me the idea of creating just such a service.”
When we thought about a problem, we asked ourselves: Who are we going to make the app for? What problem will we solve? And we realized that our target audience is moms and dads who want the best for their children, but don't always know how to explain something to a child or help him. That's where we come in handy, storytellers. Children can't stand lectures and moralizing, but they listen to fairy tales with pleasure.
Of course, fairy tale therapy has special conditions when working with children: the child has to clearly distinguish a fairy tale from reality. As a rule, this skill is formed in a child by the age of 3-4, which is why our fairy tales are aimed at children from the age of 3. In each case, it is important to take into account the individual features of the child's mental development, but one thing is certain: if you work through a problem in childhood with the help of story therapy, there is a good chance that he or she will not encounter a similar situation later on in adulthood.
Next, we began to study the market and competitors - this niche turned out to be quite spacious, the competitors could be counted on the fingers. Most of the competitors:
uses 1-2 variables in stories;
No animation;
No voiceover.
And no wonder: can you imagine how to voice a story with about 6 variables? And how about "favorite toy," "favorite food," and "the present the child wants"? So we thought about this, coming to the conclusion that our fairy tales will be voiced not by a professional speaker, but by a neural network. We chose a company that uses complex neural network models for continuous generation of speech audio signal, deep syntactic and lexical analysis of the text, modeling of intonation and breathing - all this allows to achieve smoothness and expressiveness of artificial speech.
In addition, we added personalization and animation to the voiceover of each tale, and we ended up with unique tales for kids with lots of variables.
We have sorted out the technology and the implementation, the main thing that remains is the content, on which our whole startup will be built. Since the main motive of our app is storytelling, we turned to professional playwrights with a psychological background, whom we managed to find and get interested in the plot of the tales.
Then we started looking for illustrators, because how can a fairy tale exist without colorful pictures? When the project started, we looked at over 500 illustrators-all of them cool in their own way-but it turned out that drawing for children is a special skill. It was imperative that children, and not just adults, like the pictures. In the end, half of them made it to the test assignment, from which it was possible to form a team of 10 illustrators.
What else? We're making a fairy tale in web format, so why not bring it to life? After all, it's easy: we take the layout, prepare it in layers, and animate it. Bingo: the colorful cartoon is ready!
As a result, we ended up with a colorful service that allows us to get rid of children's basic fears and solve some of their problems: fear of the dark and unwillingness to sleep in their crib, difficulties in communicating with their peers and many others. The characters in fairy tales are usually already familiar to children from other fairy tales and cartoons, so they elicit a positive reaction. Most importantly, it really works, because the most important "testers" of our product are the children of our team members! Yes, we make the product for their children as well. )
We already have our own loyal audience, an application in the Appstore, Google Play, and Huawey AppGallery.
MySkazka is proud to partner with charitable foundations and actively participates in the social life of society. By the way, one of the tales on the service is devoted to the problem of tolerance and acceptance by society of children with special developmental needs. It is called "Zebra without stripes," and we highly recommend that every child read it, because it helps us understand that each of us is special and not like the other.
Now MySkazka is the first service that plays audio tales by synthesizing speech based on neural networks. There are many audio tales on the market, but among them MySkazka is the first project that creates personal audio tales, not audio tales voiced in advance by the narrator without reference to a particular child. The solution implemented in the service allows for the real-time voicing of a fairy tale with personal variables specified by the user. In addition, each tale is animated, so it is perceived by the child as a colorful cartoon. All this increases the effect of the fairy tale and adds emotion to the reading!
And this is far from the limit! MySkazka has enormous potential: we want to make hundreds, thousands of useful fairy tales that will help parents solve certain children's problems. Our plans include cooperation with Disney and Greenpeace, as well as with many others whose mission is to help the world and the child. Together, let's raise a spiritually stable and harmonious generation of children!
We will be waiting for your feedback about the service! Feedback, suggestions for cooperation and recommendations you can send to the mail: [email protected]
Link app https://taplink.cc/my___skazka

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