Hey all,
I work at a small web/advergames company in Brazil, and sometimes we get to develop pure entertainment games in our spare time.
I was proudly responsible for our first Android game, Minihunt!!
EDIT: unfortunately I can't post images yet, but you can check out screenshots and a video at minihuntgame com
The game is supposedly a fresh, original idea. I tried to keep away from recycling old formulas, and came up with a simple game where you need to swipe sand away to find and stun tiny bugs. All bugs in the stage need to be stunned at once for you to clear the stage.
The original concept, game design, level design, and story are all my creation. Art was made by a friend of mine and his girlfriend, and my girfriend was the sole programmer for the entire game
It is 100% free, and I would love for you to try it out and comment if possible. Any criticism is very welcome also.
It requires the free Adobe Air plugin installation (also available on the market)..
Get it directly from the market or check out a video and download the free soundtrack and more at minihuntgame com
Hi, I am also in Brazil.
I released my first game in android.
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We had just launch our new Android app, InstaB for Baby yesterday.
InstaB for Baby is an app where you can personalize your baby pictures with extra information such as age, gender, zodiac, photo taken date, current date and your baby mood. Now you can share your baby pictures everyday with more than 70 different customized overlay skins.
Your baby pictures will never be the same as you can easily see your baby growth together with his/her mood, and what happen everyday. You just need to choose your favourite baby pictures from phone gallery or direct capture using the phone camera, and we will do the rest for you.
Easy Sharing Option # Instagram # Facebook # Email # Photo Gallery # And Others
Google Play Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iconmobi.instab
Hope you all will love it. Thanks
niceeric22 said:
Hope you all will love it. Thanks
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Count me in mate
Installed the free version and very much like it. It simply makes baby photos more dramatic. The UI is also simple, very easy to operate.
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Here's the link !
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iconmobi.instab
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zigma80 said:
Count me in mate
Installed the free version and very much like it. It simply makes baby photos more dramatic. The UI is also simple, very easy to operate.
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Thanks, glad you love it. We targeted to bring in the video feature next month. Stay tuned. :good:
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Here's the link !
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Thanks a lot for the link ! :good::good:
We had made a simple promo video for InstaB for Baby
Good Day,
Today we had release our new version 1.0.2 with change log as below:
★ Feature to change the photo's date manually.
★ Extra new skins filter.
★ Minor touch to improve the UI experience.
Thanks for all the support so far. We will keep on improving the app.
Thanks for the app.
I'm downloading. Will put comment later.
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We had just launched our new revamp InstaB Android app.
InstaB is the perfect baby app for parents to personalize their baby photos with extra information such as age, gender, zodiac, photo taken date, current date, custom baby mood and specially crafted stickers for baby.
Now you can share your baby photos every day with customized skin overlays to highlight special moments, memorable occasions and epochal milestones in your baby’s life. Users can also decorate and spice up their baby photos with our specially designed stickers. There are more than 10 sticker categories currently which include baby toys, party pack, stylish glasses, oriental, achievement badges, cute animal mask and more.
In this version 2.0.0, we introduced a new feature called “Baby Q&A” for parents to ask question or seek opinion from other parents. Parents can include a photo in their question, following a question, provide answer or having discussion answers.
These personalized baby photos can be easily shared with their friends on InstaB as well as other social platform such as Facebook, Instagram and etc.
With InstaB For Baby, your baby photos will never be the same as you can easily chart your baby growth, insert his/her mood then, and record everyday moments. All you have to do is to choose your favourite baby pictures from your phone gallery or take a picture using your camera phone’s direct capture, and InstaB will do the rest for you by personalizing your baby photos accordingly.
Key features of InstaB:
- 100+ custom minimalist overlay skins.
- Auto caption on age, gender, zodiac and moments date.
- Custom daily mood of your baby
- Specially crafted stickers for your baby.
- Mini achievement badges for your baby.
- Thoughtful design of your baby timeline.
- Easy sharing on InstaB where you can choose to share with your friends and family only.
- Engage with other parents with the same baby age or zodiac with like or comments.
- Baby Q&A where parents can share tips or ask for help from other parents.
InstaB is now on Android Wear; LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live.
InstaB, introduced a companion app for Android Wear devices such as LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live. Currently the companion app allow parents to browse the latest feed (baby photos) as well as promotional item. On top of that, parents can ‘like’ the feed from their friends directly from their watch too. Beside that, the latest update also allow parents to receive their InstaB notification instantly on their watch.
This is our first version and we will keep on improving it. Do let us know if there is any problems.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iconmobi.instab
Hi everyone! I’d like to tell you the story about the creation and release of our first game. I will tell you a little about our company’s background and the difficulties that we encountered during the development. I hope our story might be useful to you too.
It all started a few years ago when my brother built up a team of like-minded people who were eager to create, and this was then expressed in the creation of animation and computer graphics for various projects. The team eventually grew, as well as the number of orders from clients. Then there was a point when we decided to create our own game project. Thus, we began a long preparation process. Unfortunately, our existing knowledge base was not enough to start the project. New volunteers joined the team, the learning process started, and the project began to acquire its first outlines. The result was a prototype of Crocks Hunter, a 2D platformer.
The plot of the game was as follows: Crocodile-aliens arrive on Earth to steal the Moon from earthmen. The main characters of the game (a boy or a girl, depending on player’s choice) must go through six different locations (desert, jungle, lava, water world, ice jungle, and fairy forest), and catch — not kill, the game is absolutely violence-free and child-friendly — all the Crocodiles into boxes which are used sometimes for some puzzles, and then defeat the final boss. One of the graphics features of the game is that 3D character models were rendered into 2D to make more complex, natural and fancy animations and to keep the high quality of the overall picture, along with a light-weight installation file.
Initially, the project was planned to be released for mobile platforms, but as the development progressed, it was decided to release it for PC, and then for Nintendo Switch. This was due to several reasons. Firstly, mobile game publishers are into the free2play game model, for which platform games are not quite suitable, although we figured out how to monetize the game, and to draw the player’s interest to micro-transactions. Secondly, in order to enhance the visuals of the game with various effects, we would have to sacrifice the performance. Therefore, it was more interesting to release the game on PC and consoles but at a set price. One of the publishers suggested that we release an update with six levels and two bosses once a month. Thus, it would be possible to retain the player for a long time, but so far we have not tried this model. Although, who knows, maybe you will?
We temporarily froze the Crocks Hunter project but did not abandon it. We are writing new documentation, and designing new levels. We are open to cooperation with investors and publishers to make a global bestseller together.
Currently, we are working without an office, so the whole team works remotely. In order to complete the project and make it at a high level, we would need to gather all the team members in one place, and this requires funding. So we started looking for investors. Many publishers appreciated the great potential of the game but would invest in the project after it being fully fledged and ready for release. As it turned out, Russian investors are afraid of the gaming industry, and they are completely unready to invest in it. Perhaps, this is due to their not understanding the potential and the specifics of the industry. Many foreign investors simply don’t work with Russia. At some point in our search for investors, we were stumped. The team could no longer work on pure enthusiasm. Some team members quit. Some began to slow down the main process, saying that they’d prefer to take orders as before than “work for the fairies and unicorns”. But some determined team members still believed in the project and continued to create it. So this is how the PUSHINGAMES company was created.
Unfortunately, there is no “book for dummies” on how to achieve success from the beginning to end in video games industry. The information you may find on the Internet is very superficial. Therefore, look for according courses, literature, or even better, find some competent mentor who will guide you. Our mentor was a game designer Konstantin Savochkin
One evening, when we were discussing some details, we decided to create a little something to distract ourselves, and came up with the “Quick Week” project. The main goal of which was to create and release one mini-game within a week. It took a couple of days to write game design documents and calculate P & L. Meanwhile, our artists already made the first sketches and prototypes.
We really like the examples of the Nintendo and Marvel universes when the story of one character is woven into the story of another, thereby creating fascinating endless worlds. Maintaining the heritage of the “Crocks Hunter”, we chose the main character to be a crocodile. The result was Jumping Crock: Jellyfish Attack, an arcade retro jumper for mobile platforms, designed in the style of space comic books of the 80’s .
Download link on GooglePlay: Jumping Crock Jellyfish Attack
In total, we spent around $600 to create the game, excluding licenses and developer accounts. We spent most of the budget on localizing the game and its description in 12 languages, including Russian.
To do the translation job, we chose a small but very responsible team — Locnloader a pool of freelance video game translators with 8 years of experience and voice over actors collected in one place. They specialize in indie-games and such small teams as ours, and that affects the price in a good way. For a reasonable price, they did us translations within 2 days. Moreover, they helped us with the ASO description text and edited it to sound a little more adequate, which is sometimes hard when it comes to repeating many same keywords in one small text. What I personally liked is that their team manager had some understanding in game design (and even took a course in it), and a little in ASO. That’s what I call speaking the same language!
We are very proud of the music in our arcade in particular. We love rock! There is 8-bit Space Rock music in the game. It was written by a wonderful musician, composer, and our cousin Yevgeny Protopopov. The music takes you back to the past, especially if you played Battle Toads and Tanks as a child.
Since we created the project with our own money, the payment to our specialists for the work done was extremely symbolic and incommensurable with the level of their professionalism. Therefore we are immensely grateful to our team and believe that without them we wouldn’t succeed.
In order for the project to be successful, it is very important for the team to have a Team Lead, who could drive this train, per aspera ad astra. In our team, that would be my brother Nikita.
Many companies could have achieved well-deserved success, but they never reached it, stopping halfway through. The history of the company with the fruit on the logo is the lodestar for us on how to do things.
Of course, you always want to do something unique and ambitious like Crash Bandicoot. You might want to make the game more complex by adding many different features and mechanics, but it’s better not to do so. Make it easy! The process of creativity absorbs you. You always want to add something else, when almost everything is ready. It’s best to concentrate on the main idea and actually bring it to life, and after the release, just make an update. By making game updates after the release, you maintain players’ interest and make your app appear at the top of the search results in application stores. In the long-term development of your project, it’s very important to take a detached view. Do beta and alpha testing. Of course, this is a bit like parent-teacher nights at school, when they scold your beloved child, and it can be painful, but it will be good for you.
We made our game free-to-play. We were looking for ads SDK for a long time, and we stopped at the companies:
● Appodeal
● AdMod
As the saying goes, “Creativity is great, but sometimes hunger takes over”. The most important thing is to remember who we are doing this for. We believe that a player should stay immersed in the game as long as possible, without being disturbed by ads in the heat of the moment. And of course, you can’t go without them at all. Use all available services of GooglePlay and AppStore, in-app ads, Achievements, and Leaderboards.
After we published our game in stores, the hardest part began — promotion. Promoting the project itself is also very important. You can create a masterpiece, but in order for it to become a bestseller, you got to try your best. How can you do it when there is no budget? To accumulate link mass, you can write articles in the media and various forums. But as practice has shown, there is nothing better than word of mouth. Bloggers, YouTube and streamers are such goodwill ambassadors. Each of them makes game reviews in their particular style. Find the one you like and persuade them to do a review for free. However, you are unlikely to have luck on this one (we haven’t). Russian bloggers ask for two to three times more money than their foreign counterparts, by the way.
Before releasing your game, create your info channels and use cross-references between them. It works! We use:
● Facebook
● Twitter
● Youtube
● Instagram
● Yunoia
● Bridget Loker
● Telegram channels and chats.
Now let’s get to the final part — working with app stores and how we published our game.
Google — everything is quick and easy. The main thing is to make an agreement with your conscience and not to sign Coppa.
AppStore —an application is being checked for a long time. It feels like an eternity. But in fact, it takes a week for them to check it, despite them saying 24 to 48 hours.
Amazon — quick and easy.
AppScater — as soon as you publish on the main stores, you can start invading Greater China. Appscater is there to help you.
So it goes.
P.S.
Once again I want to say thank you to my team. And please, don’t forget to try and play our game
The author of this article and chief marketing officer, one of the brothers, Artem Pushin.
Love your journey from starting to till today. Thanks for your post. :good:
Сongratulations on the release! I would like to read about promotion steps, if you did any, except social networks cross-references..
Love it!
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