After releasing my first mobile game (Bitey Trees) exclusively on the iPhone App Store last September, I set my sights on my next game development goal: Building and releasing a cross-platform mobile game, for both iOS and Android. It’s still in the very early phases right now – I’ve been taking my sweet time getting started with it and trying to plan things out – but for this blog post, I wanted to share my preliminary experiences with building for both platforms using Godot Engine, the game engine I’ve decided to use for this project. Read more...

A little over a year ago, in August 2018, I started working on a small puzzle game for iOS. I’ve been steadily blogging about it along the way – from this first post (where I naively thought I’d finish and release the game in 2-3 months) to the previous most recent post (all about the push to get it finished enough to submit to TestFlight and start beta testing). Read more...

Last August, I started working on a small puzzle game for iOS, and have been blogging about it along the way. Update #1 took a look at how it all got started, and creating a very minimal “playable” game over the first few weeks. Read more...

As of mid-January, I’m now 5 months in to this little iOS game development adventure… Which I started back in August, thinking it would take 2-3 months. The game started out as a blank slate, but after some iteration and experimentation, it’s shaping up to be sort of a mini RPG where you fight using casual “bubble shooter” mechanics, with the concept based loosely on my game jam entry for Ludum Dare #42. Read more...

Back in August, I started working on a small casual puzzle game for iOS. The idea was to go through the whole process of fully finishing a game and releasing it on the app store, in order to learn the ropes of doing it… And also create something simple but fun in the process. Read more...