Will Sha Cat make it and find her stolen #love ? It’s only up to you! Have a great #ValentinesDay
How I became a game designer (video)
Practicing my online presence in video form.
Sha Cat – Finished the first 8 Levels! :)
So I got done the first 8 levels for my Sha Cat Lady. Feels Good.
Here some Screenshots of the two Level select Screens, each containing 4 levels
which have to get progressively unlocked by winning levels.
The Plan
Until level 8 the game is totally free. In level 8 you arrive on a golden door, blocking your way.
You need the golden key for it, which you only can get by buying it, for around 1.99 Euro.
That’s basically buying the game or upgrading to premium. This will be the only time the player will experience a flow blocker in my game. But somehow I need to make money too.
I like food.
Painting a fish
My newest work. I’m content wise now in 2/3 of what I want to have for the game release in April. The story will not be finished within the first release version, the idea is to patch the next levels right after it’s out. (1-2 weeks) And keep on going, creating this cute fantasy world.
Flappy Bird and its shitty copies
Flappy Bird is a Mobile game made by one developer in a few days, it breaks all download records and does a lot of money. Lucky Guy and he deserves it.
But same as with Angry Birds or Cut the rope an army of clone copies arrive behind, to get a piece of the cake. Calling their games „tribute’s“.
They aren’t a „tribute“ or how ever you phrase it. It is an attempt to get at least a small portion of the success – finical success. Such success stories, like flappy bird, are a double bladed sword. On one side the game loving but insecure developer get’s motivation and an idol. On the other side we have a bunch of guys just trying to make some money by copying popular titles, flooding the game market with crap copy attempts, or „tributes“.
This creates a layer of shit in the App Store, through this layer every unique self crafted title has to break through and it becomes more and more impossible because so many people are „tributing“.
Today I painted a new Boss character for my game
Hello everyone 🙂
I just uploaded my newest painting video, where I made a scarecrow boss.
The Sha Cat will have to defeat the spooky boss to get into the castle where her kidnapped boyfriend has been brought.
Sleeplessness
I just can’t sleep. even due I was actually doing sport today, some jogging…
Project wise I didn’t achieved much today, craving around on social platforms where we (my girlfriend and me) made a good bunch of new followers..
But they may would had have appeared without my influence anyways. So I blame myself for not having made enough progress today. And on the other hand I’m angry on myself that I can’t give myself a break. It’s just one of these days I guess.
It’s 2:39 AM and I really tried to find rest but I can’t, my head is spinning. And I jump on my thoughts like a hungry wolf on a sheep.
Sometimes I miss the mental balance I had when I was a super fit, motivated and young brick layer. Working physically made one so tired that thoughts would not get enough energy to sustain themselves.
Maybe I just will start working out more often again. I have to discipline myself and observe more carefully when I fall in this poisonous spiral of checking out all the social media channels over and over again, it is also a purely egocentric behavior.
Amanita Muscaria (flying agaric) a.k.a SuperMario Mushroom
Amanita Muscaria (flying agaric) a.k.a #SuperMario Mushroom is the currency in ShaCat. This fungus is wrongly associated with being deadly poisonous. In fact it isn’t, It’s close cousins are the deadly one’s and killed people which mixed them up. The Amanita Muscaria is a deliriant and was used for ritualistic purpose and consumed by berserkers before they went to a battle in order to boost their recklessness.
Investing into building a Market Presence
Today I’ll start investing some money in the online presentation (amount of likes) of the Sha Cat Facebook Page and the young Youtube Channel.
Current statistic:
Facebook: 41 likes (page below)
Youtube: 120 views (video below)
Facebook Ads:
Starting to use Facebook Ads with very specific target audience
13-17 year old Girls from Germany which like candy crush, iPhone, cat and games.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sha-Cat/160613200814704?ref=tn_tnmn
Price:
1day/8 Euro
6 days/48 Euro
=108 Likes per day estimated
Youtube Ads
A specific picked video of mine will be featured via Google AdWords.
Price:
7.38 Euro per day = 450 views per day estimated
6 days / 44,28 Euro
Total cost this week:
92,28 Euro
Let’s Check the results by end of the Week.
Best regards,
Dave
Today’s painting result
I had a very productive day, it just flowed. Here some digital painting footage from today. Have a nice one!
David Zobrist 