Proudly presenting game number 6!
Alpha Breaker
Free Download:
https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/alpha-breaker/id882036378?mt=8
„Catch the energy ball! Keep him in the air! Beat your own high scores and compete with other players all over the world.“
This was a Collaboration with David Rivera!
Check out his website: http://davidriveraonline.com
That’s my new peyote cactus! His name is Pedro.
It’s actually a trippy cactus, causing psychedelic effects, which are used for religious purpose since a long time.
„The Native American Church (NAC) is an indigenous religion that uses the entheogen peyote (Lophophora williamsii) sacramentally to induce religious, shamanic, or spiritual experiences.“
To own it is totally legal you can buy it in normal plant shops, to consume it is totally illegal. I also heard it is a very harsh one and causes a massive hangover. So not the easiest way to role if you look for a trip.
What ever for now I only want to grow it, which takes around 1 year. I’m not sure I gonna try to eat it ever. If I try it, than in a country where its legal, obviously…
Have a nice and sunny weekend everyone!!!
So I partnered up for the upcoming game app’s which go live this saturday (31.5).
Proudly presenting:
Sabba Keynejad
Sabba Keynejad described in his own words:
I am a multi disciplinary design/developer soon to be graduating from Central Saint Martins. My work explores interaction, sound, data and experience. I like to create experiences people want to share and interact with, this is the driving force behind what I do.
You can check out a lot of his design projects on his website:
http://www.sabbakeynejad.co.uk
He also got interviewed from hit-bag.com which belongs to the VICE blogging network.
http://hit-bag.com/2012/05/15/sabba-keynejad-central-st-martins-rising-star
His first released gaming app was directly featured by Apple, which is pretty impressive.
Download it here:
https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/world-keeper/id848937930?mt=8
Cooperation:
The last days I created a total new version of his first app since the gameplay wasn’t as advanced as the graphics. We made it more „flappy“, meaning hard and addicting. We want to get it live right before the big Fifa 2014 Football event starts off, so it maybe catches a wave to ride with. We also re-skinned it and changed a few variables to make it a tennis game which also connects to the other big sport event this year, which is Wimbledon 2014. We already work on a totally new top secret project.
Conclusions:
Sabba is a very engaged and inspiring person, he works like a maniac which pretty much aligns with me. I look forward to create a lot more of these exciting game projects with him. The first two projects will be shown here soon!
Sabba Keynejad Twitter:
https://twitter.com/sab8a
All the games I shipped so far for the iPhone, we’re created with a software called Gamesalad.
Website: http://gamesalad.com
„Create Games Rapidly Drag & Drop, No CodeGame Creator“
I just had to activate the pro membership which I had for free the last 3 months since there was a special deal I participated.
But now I had to buy it in order to continue doing my games. So let’s hope I make this 299 Dollar back in the next months :=P
My fifth Game App just went live today!
Free Download:
https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/stone-age-survival-hunter/id876010515?mt=8
„Hungry cave man need food. Delicious deer hopping. Look tasty. Throw spear! Good dinner.“
Game Goal:
Hunt down some deer by hurling spears at them. Gather food quickly before the caveman starves.
The whole purpose of this blog, beside of show case my app’s is to be transparent about my struggles and results of being an full time indie developer. I’m on my own feet’s since almost 6 months now and would not be able to live from the income, so far. Actually this month my founding will end and I will have to survive of my savings.
Never than less this will not make me stop. It’s an awesome time with big up’s and down’s which make me feel alive and gaining a lot of experience. Also a lot of awesome people start getting in in contact with me and seek for collaberations. So I’m just starting.
Let’s look at the total period downloads, which are fantastic 1500 Downloads!
Obviously Sha Cat which I marketed the most is on the top of this list but right below follows Bumpy Ball, which had not marketing at all and was build within 3 days. Which is pretty insightful.
Let’s look about the strong peak points regarding downloads ( excluded The Sha Man, to weak and far off):
The first hill around 23. April is created by Sha Cat and the one around 10. May by Bumpy Ball.
As you see even without marketing Bumpy ball had a twice time stronger launch effect as Sha Cat.
So I wondered, why?
I figured three things there:
Name -It’s a very catchy Name and it starts with a „B“ and as another designer just told me the „New“ List on iTunes is listed alphabetical. Very big point for future titles.
Time – Saturday, the weekend day boosts the initial downloads much higher than any week day.
Simplicity – Not only the gameplay but more important the Art is simple. By not making it specific and keeping it more generic it scares less people from downloading it. It becomes a digital „Cheeseburger“.
A video review of Sha Cat by a Father and his daughter. Really cute and insightful 🙂
I realized that there is self created resistance against finishing and putting live a project.
Some times more, sometimes less.
You say to yourself it’s because „this is not right yet“. After a certain investment time this statement is not accurate anymore and hides a deeper inner struggle.
This struggle arrives through expectations, these arise unconsciously and start projecting identification on your work. You could argue that this is a good thing, since by becoming personal it makes you really care.
There is a dark site to this, the flip coin to the deal of total immersion.
This identification start’s creating resistance in you since you are becoming afraid it could not accurately express yourself or your talent.
This delay’s finishing it and happens mostly subconsciously, on the surface it will make you create reason’s „why“ it is not yet the time.
Exhausted from unawarely struggling with yourself and blaming the unfair conditions, you start avoidance strategies like setting new priorities and create distractions.
There is a mental grip of the pure innocent project that takes away it’s the air to breath.
What is the solution?
You might switch to something new and give it up entirely which would not be considered a solution and is you giving up. Or you force it through but lose the innocense of your project.
If you can effort the luxury you can put the project aside and take time, time to break the suppressing identification and its projected expectations.
A controllable actor which makes it rain (physical cubes). Not yet sure what it will be about 😛
David Zobrist 