http://html5games.com/2013/08/unsquare/
This is a great moment!
I have submitted unsquare to quite some sites, but I know that having it on html5games.com is a really great thing, since it will give LOTS of traffic.
I will also try now to contact publishers with this game.
I also thought about making a new game with nice graphics, since it seems that that's what the publishers like. Simple game play and nice graphics. I thought about making a fill-it clone, but now I think of making something better.
Also, I am thinking about using phaser.js as my library for the ludum dare.
For now, good bye.
Wednesday 14 August 2013
Saturday 27 July 2013
Unsquare Status
It seems that what I have been expecting, Unsquare featuring in the clay.io promotional letter, has not happened. The reason was that there were too many games, and I didn't have enough rating and views.
Oh well, Austin Hallock of Clay.io was so nice, (again!) and he "resetted" my game so it could be featured in the next letter.
Oh, I almost forgot! I have been offline for a week because my family and I took a vacation in Puerto Plata. During that time, not much happened though. I had really few views. None the less, I had about 12 cents of revenue, because of a CPM ad scheme. Imagine if I will have even more views!
Oh well, Austin Hallock of Clay.io was so nice, (again!) and he "resetted" my game so it could be featured in the next letter.
Oh, I almost forgot! I have been offline for a week because my family and I took a vacation in Puerto Plata. During that time, not much happened though. I had really few views. None the less, I had about 12 cents of revenue, because of a CPM ad scheme. Imagine if I will have even more views!
Monday 15 July 2013
Unsquare Released!
I have published Unsquare to the Clay.io "marketplace" and now it is pending. It usually doesn't take too long before the game gets accepted.
I also have submitted a link to my game to html5games.com , which is a nice traffic source, which takes about a week to approve a game.
I also posted a link to Facebook, to get my friends to play it. I also posted a link specifically in the "2013 Lloyd Auckland Invitational Seminar" page, since I know that the people there would like logic puzzle games like Unsquare.
I am now trying to find where else I can post my game. It's interesting how all this promotion works. It's like a time bomb. There is no way to know that it will work other than waiting and hoping that you will eventually see a peak in the number of your game views.
I also hope that people will share this game and rate it well. Because that's what the popularity of a game like Unsquare comes from after all.
I am also interested in knowing if the Clay.io publisher program actually works. :) I hope my game will be featured there eventually.
Play Unsquare here:
I also have submitted a link to my game to html5games.com , which is a nice traffic source, which takes about a week to approve a game.
I also posted a link to Facebook, to get my friends to play it. I also posted a link specifically in the "2013 Lloyd Auckland Invitational Seminar" page, since I know that the people there would like logic puzzle games like Unsquare.
I am now trying to find where else I can post my game. It's interesting how all this promotion works. It's like a time bomb. There is no way to know that it will work other than waiting and hoping that you will eventually see a peak in the number of your game views.
I also hope that people will share this game and rate it well. Because that's what the popularity of a game like Unsquare comes from after all.
I am also interested in knowing if the Clay.io publisher program actually works. :) I hope my game will be featured there eventually.
Play Unsquare here:
Friday 12 July 2013
Tuesday 9 July 2013
Monday 8 July 2013
Added advertisements to mobile version!
Finally!
I came back from a fishing trip over the weekend, and today, I integrated mobile ads in my game!
It took quite a while, but now it's done!
The problem was that at the moment, the clay.io api had a few bugs related to the positioning of ads, so it took quite a lot of emails between me and Austin Hallock, for him to fix all the issues. I like Austin, it seems that he is currently the soul active developer of clay.io, yet when I contact his, he usually responds in less than a day and fixes the issue. Clay.io isn't the biggest game site out there, but I'm still impressed.
I came back from a fishing trip over the weekend, and today, I integrated mobile ads in my game!
It took quite a while, but now it's done!
The problem was that at the moment, the clay.io api had a few bugs related to the positioning of ads, so it took quite a lot of emails between me and Austin Hallock, for him to fix all the issues. I like Austin, it seems that he is currently the soul active developer of clay.io, yet when I contact his, he usually responds in less than a day and fixes the issue. Clay.io isn't the biggest game site out there, but I'm still impressed.
Wednesday 3 July 2013
A sneek preview...
I've been fighting with CSS to get a good mobile version of the game. I'm about just almost there. My version is "ok". And also, I should be thinking at where I will be putting my ads. I can't really work on it now, clay.io does not support my type of ad yet! I will use the type of ad: 320x50 from Google adsense. I asked one of the devs to add (no pun intended) it. He said he will. It's one of those things that you have to deal with when you are using a middle man and not directly adsense. I guess there are good things to that too: I don't have to worry about having to host my game and to have an adsense account. (Which I can't even have, I'm less than 18 years old!)
And finally a bonus: if you are actually really reading this blog, then you must be really interested in my development. SO here is a secret: this is my main testing URL: http://unsquareprototype3.clay.io/
I use it to test my game on mobile. Make good use of it. ;) If you have read till here, be free to TRY IT!
And finally a bonus: if you are actually really reading this blog, then you must be really interested in my development. SO here is a secret: this is my main testing URL: http://unsquareprototype3.clay.io/
I use it to test my game on mobile. Make good use of it. ;) If you have read till here, be free to TRY IT!
Continuing to work on mobile version...
I am currently working on making my game, Unsquare, work and look well on mobile. The only device I have to do testing is my iPod touch with an ancient iOS. I think it's 4.2.1 but I'm not sure... Because of that, some of html features don't work well. The <canvas> tag works, but is slow. And position:fixed isn't supported! That was a surprise!
Anyway, this will soon call for a period of testing when I'll put it online for people with different devices to try it. I hope it will come soon.
Tuesday 2 July 2013
Tinkering with mobile version.
I am making the first steps to making an mobile version of my game Unsquare. I got the game working, now all the rest needs to be done such as adding a nice look, and leaving place for ads.
As a side note, a small game I made some time ago has been accepted for featuring on html5games.com! That game is spinturret.clay.io It's not great, but it was my first dive into Clay.io.
As a side note, a small game I made some time ago has been accepted for featuring on html5games.com! That game is spinturret.clay.io It's not great, but it was my first dive into Clay.io.
Sunday 30 June 2013
MOAR LEVELS!!!!!!!!!
60 black and white levels and counting!
I hope that they won't become boring. I myself can't really tell, because I "engineered" all of them. I am considering to do another "public preview" to see what people think. I will do it as soon as I make more "coloured" levels!
It seems to me now that there is a lot more to making a game than I expected. It can be really time consuming and procrastination encouraging.
I am also considering making myself a twitter to post pictures to it.
Friday 28 June 2013
Made a level editor, tons of levels soon to come!
I have made a level editor for Unsquare. The code for it is a bit messy, but it works. Anyway, tomorow, I'm going to be mass producing levels! I will start with black and white levels, I wish to have a good hundred of them! Then, I'll see with the tricolor ones and the rainbow ones.
Thursday 27 June 2013
Idling about...
Yesterday, I haven't done anything concerning Unsquare, and I haven't done much today either. Just a few small changes. I probably wasn't in the mood. I had been a bit sick... Luckily, I will be able to continue, and I'm glad I have a to-do list. Also, I now realized that I will have to make a better level editor.
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Undo, PAR, Persistent Storage and Austin Hallock
Today, it has been a productive day. I got an undo button working. To do that, I had to correct a few errors in BinaryData.js , a library that I made for easily manipulating grids of numbers. It's not the first time I spotted errors in my hand crafted library in production.
I also added the glow effect you can see in the picture if a level has been done in par steps. I also added persistent storage using the Clay.io api. I hope I can trust.
When using the Clay.io api for persistent storage, you have to make sure that you have no periods in the key. Otherwise it won't work properly.
I didn't add much levels, yet...
This may be considered as version 0.3.8 of the game. To get it to 0.4.0, I'll need to add a button to reset the storage, clean up my code, and force the player to solve a level before going to the next.
My last point, is that I got an email from Austin Hallock, one of the leading (if not THE leading) developer at Clay.io, who said that he really liked the concept of Unsquare. Things have happened so rapidly, it's almost surreal.
To-do list...
<talking to myself>
I will make, in approximately this order:
I will make, in approximately this order:
an undo button( finished 25 june 5:24 PM)- a level pack menu
remembering completed levels(finished 25th june 9:00 PM)- making PAR significant
- adding a main menu
- adding more levels
- adding a consistent look
- making a bonus level system
- Making my game work on mobile
Colors (Unsquare 0.3.0)
I added colors!
It's now officially, version 0.3.0
The concept of content-based games works really well here. I can make a new color skin and make levels for it without changing the main code now!
I won't release it online just now though. I will release it in maybe a week when there will be less prom pictures on facebook.
I added this banner to retain people's attention though:
The 0.2.0 version can be found here:
http://unsquareprototype.clay.io/
I am also up to another project: summing up the developmental patterns and techniques I used to make this game. I will do it as soon as I will find out how to format html and javascript on this blogger thingy. I will call it "Hassle-free javascript for medium projects"
It's now officially, version 0.3.0
The concept of content-based games works really well here. I can make a new color skin and make levels for it without changing the main code now!
I won't release it online just now though. I will release it in maybe a week when there will be less prom pictures on facebook.
I added this banner to retain people's attention though:
I also had lots of massively good feedback! Some guy tweeted my game, and someone rated it 5-star! And I didn't even release it on the Clay.io store. And it's not even finished!
http://unsquareprototype.clay.io/
I am also up to another project: summing up the developmental patterns and techniques I used to make this game. I will do it as soon as I will find out how to format html and javascript on this blogger thingy. I will call it "Hassle-free javascript for medium projects"
Sunday 23 June 2013
Unsquare 0.2.0
Yeah!
I have got Unsquare to a new better state. I'm also now hosting it on Clay.io!
http://unsquareprototype.clay.io/
Look at the beautiful menu:
Oh, how I wish I could cooperate with an artist, or at least with someone who knows his HTMLs
But no, I got this thing handles, I think, and I have my dear w3 schools.
Also, lets hope facebook won't delete the link. It shouldn't since It's a clay.io subdomain. That's a good site! Plus, I get to have an icon showed on facebook, which is something I tried to figure out for a few minutes but I couldn't.
Also, who are the 3 people who viewed my blog? I didn't look at it myself to be fair.
Oh, it's so late, 12:01 AM, so I better quit doing stuff...
P.S. I probably did some grammar mistakes...
Saturday 22 June 2013
Hello!
Hello!
I created this blog to keep track of what I do.
I imagine that having an open blog is the most socially acceptable alternative to thinking out loud.
Oh, and if someday what I do will be really successful and I'll be really extroverted about it, I'll have people come here.
What I do:
I like programming stuff, mostly in Javascript, and mostly games. I have a lot of other passions that come out at the most random times, but I will not talk about them here... probably.
So I have been developing a puzzle game, and I have showed it to people on facebook and Ludum Dare, and I had such good feedback. Unluckily, Facebook deleted my post thinking it was spam. Anyway here is the prototype I showed people:
http://rnd.atspace.tv/UnsquarePrototype/
The way I had originally made it was pretty weird, since I had the game be running in an iframe, and yeah. The problem was that each time a level was reset, the iframe reloaded.
Now, I am remaking, changing the game so that it won't have all this iframe nonsense. I am also doing it because in Clay.io it didn't work for some reason. I will be hosting my game on Clay.io since facebook found my other link to suspicious. I am going to also add more levels.
Oh, and people thought that level 15 was really hard. It looked like this.
Anyway, with a swish of $ hg commit, I am now changing the game. I have these sliding animations going. Also, I am integrating a dialogue between levels, so the person can choose if he/she wishes to try and get par.
I created this blog to keep track of what I do.
I imagine that having an open blog is the most socially acceptable alternative to thinking out loud.
Oh, and if someday what I do will be really successful and I'll be really extroverted about it, I'll have people come here.
What I do:
I like programming stuff, mostly in Javascript, and mostly games. I have a lot of other passions that come out at the most random times, but I will not talk about them here... probably.
So I have been developing a puzzle game, and I have showed it to people on facebook and Ludum Dare, and I had such good feedback. Unluckily, Facebook deleted my post thinking it was spam. Anyway here is the prototype I showed people:
http://rnd.atspace.tv/UnsquarePrototype/
The way I had originally made it was pretty weird, since I had the game be running in an iframe, and yeah. The problem was that each time a level was reset, the iframe reloaded.
Now, I am
Oh, and people thought that level 15 was really hard. It looked like this.
Anyway, with a swish of $ hg commit, I am now changing the game. I have these sliding animations going. Also, I am integrating a dialogue between levels, so the person can choose if he/she wishes to try and get par.
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