DaveSapien

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by DaveSapien 2y ago
A life time ago I was a ceramicist among other art things. And one thing I love todo was a Seaweed firing. I would say its easier than his method, but i can see his to be more convenient. All you need for a seaweed firing is a beach with
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by DaveSapien 2y ago
They had me at the loading sounds. I often crack open my ZXPlecturm app to play those wonderful loading sounds. Chills.
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by DaveSapien 3y ago
This was way more fun than it should be. Wonderful! Reminds me of Linelight on Steam and my game Kanso, both have 1D game mechanics (but with 2D visuals).
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by DaveSapien 3y ago
This has convinced me to add prepossessed fill areas on my kids colouring book for iOS. (no IAP, subscription, no ads, etc, like the general sentiment here) Been thinking about this for a while, but things are fast enough on an iPad that i
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Yeah absolutely, early morning memories of better times.
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Thank you! Likewise! I'm not too bothered about Steam's discoverability, its at least honest(ish) about it. The more reviews and sales you get the more its pushed...as far as I can tell. I've found discoverability/promo
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
I'm also a solo game dev with a recently released game. All this is really spot on with my experience. It just not clear if the author hired an artist or he just recommends it...its quite common for Game dev's to claim they made
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
That has been my impression of the company's games, but only an impression as I don't play their games. I might check out this new mobile game for study though.
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Yes. No, each industry has its special flavour of abhorrent behaviour. I'm not 'taring' the entire industry at all. Indeed I said, "vast number of honourable people in the industry", what I am concerned with is ju
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
There will be, for sure, lives ruined because of this game's predatory practices. It really sickens me. To quote myself from a previous thread: "If you could hear the contempt that "some" game devs have for their custome
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Here here.
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Just came here to say congratulations! Releasing a game is a real accomplishment and you should be very proud. Well done!!!
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
No problem, glad to help!
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Realised that was a bit snarky of a comment, I'm using a a modified version of Cocos2dx .v4. It took way longer to create than if I was using Unity, but its a great solution for a small and performant end product. I was able to get Ka
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
A computer for the most part. Xcode, I use Xcode for the most part and visual studio for the Steam version.
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Yeah sure thing, this is Kanso on iOS (its also on Steam) https://apps.apple.com/app/id1384257762
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Total remakes from basically scratch. I've settled on rolling with c++ with no(minimal) external dependancies as the best solution...still using Unity for some projects, its just so fast to get stuff done!
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Yeah, spread that over 20 games/apps. It can really mount up, I can think of other indie game dev's that only publish on iOS that their games are now forever lost. It's a real cultural loss.
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
If only it where only that simple. There are many dependancies that require some kind of reimplementation, it's a pain. I have made things easier (in the long run) with my last game. I wrote it all in c++ with all dependancies under my
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Some, most of them not.
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
You are spot on, but that might even be the best case scenario. Thing can quickly turn south and cost quite a bit of time.
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Zero, just my time. And the cost of fixing all the problems with new versions of Xcode, Unity, and whatever else was used and has now changed. It can become quite the rabbit hole, and thus quite costly.
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
This has happened to me also (indie game dev) a few years ago. The number is about 20 or so games that have been removed by Apple because they hadn't been updated in two years. The worked perfectly fine on all the new hardware/sof
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
oh yeah!! " loading sounds with your own mouth " I feel thats a video or it didn't happen moment.
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Damn, I forgot it was the 40th anniversary today! The ZX Spectrum was my first computer and I was a bit too young to write any software for it sadly, but it was my second (TV Pong was my first) introduction to gaming...on a black and white
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
I thought I was having a stroke when I first booted up the NES virtual console and the start screen from Mario Land (original GameBoy) flashed on screen for a split second. Anyone else have this experience, all most two years ago?
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
No grocery store has my personal details...and yes I also have a big problem with grocery stores employing that tactic against children. Its psychological abuse and I will never, have never, taken a child in these places. Horrible behaviour
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
Thank you for confirming what I said. I know I won't convince you one way or the other. I've seen statements eerily similar to yours before, that I feel that it might be a regurgitation from some article or book somewhere. Note th
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by DaveSapien 4y ago
At great expense to my carrier I have out and out refused to take part in creating these predatory practices. If you could hear the contempt that "some" game devs have for their customers, you might never buy a game ever again.
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by DaveSapien 5y ago
From a manufacturers point of view its a really hard sale, a smaller device will alway have 'poor' battery life or use a less powerful cpu to keep the battery life on par with bigger phones. Either way reviewers will tank it for

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