I was having a bad day so, instead of working, I played Ooblets. It’s such a sweet and funny game, improved my mood at once. Even made me laugh out loud a few times! If you are sad and want to cheer up, I very much recommend you play it 🙂
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Unity Input System vs Rewired
My brother and I spent another day trying to solve the issue with gamepads in Unity. To recap: if you start the game and plug in your gamepad while the Unity splash screen is displayed, the game will not recognize that a gamepad is connected. We reported it as a bug to Unity but so…
[Continue Reading]Connecting gamepad during Unity splash screen bug
Three days ago I wrote that our Summer Paws game got rated by ESRB and it’s suitable for all players. We need an ESRB rating in order to receive a certification to have our game published on one of the platforms. But just a day later we got a report that there’s a bug in…
[Continue Reading]No cats jumping off cliffs — it’s official!
My brother and I made a few games about cats. The latest one is Summer Paws. It recently received an “E” ESRB rating. ESRB stands for Entertainment Software Rating Board, and they provide ratings for games to indicate if a game can be played by kids, or teenagers, or if it should only be played…
[Continue Reading]Google Report on Games
A friend sent me a link to Google’s Global Insights Report. There are some interesting takeaways. First, searches for “competitive multiplayer” rose 70000%! Not that I plan to make a game that is a “competitive multiplayer” but it shocked me that that kind of game got so much more popular. It reminds me, I have…
[Continue Reading]Steam – 2020 Year in Review
Steam shared their 2020 data, and it’s interesting. The first thing to note is that each month there were 2.6 million new people who bought their first game on Steam. In 2018 it was just 1.6 million. That’s very good news for indie developers like my brother and me. As soon as we released our…
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I already wrote about two of the games my brother and I made. Our first game was Hidden Paws. We started making it exactly 3 years ago and then published it 3 months later. After that, we made Hidden Paws Mystery, which is our worst game yet. The third one in the series is Summer…
[Continue Reading]Our worst game
After the success of our first game, we decided to make a sequel. Making a second game should be easier, you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, right? Well, not only did we repeat a lot of mistakes from our first game, but we also added new ones. The game is Hidden Paws Mystery….
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In December 2017, like every Christmas, I visited my mom. My brother was there too. Usually, we eat a lot, maybe watch some movies, do jigsaw puzzles, and play games. It should be relaxing, but it never is. Or maybe it is at first but we don’t like being unproductive for days. So, we were…
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