Behavior Analysis of 50,000 Mobile Players

About 5 months ago, I released Thermometers Puzzles on all major mobile platforms. On Google Play, downloads were quite decent and reached 50,000 players a few weeks ago. I took some time to extract data gathered with Game Analytics SDK and analyze the behavior of 50,128 Android players. Part #1: Pack completion Levels are grouped… Continue reading Behavior Analysis of 50,000 Mobile Players

Statistics and Fun Facts About the Players of Don’t Feed the Trolls

Two weeks after a post about the sales and the ads revenue of Don’t Feed the Trolls, here’s another statistics post, this time about the players of the game. Don’t Feed the Trolls is a reflex game released in May on iPhone/iPad and Android (Google Play and Amazon). Feel free to try it, it’s a… Continue reading Statistics and Fun Facts About the Players of Don’t Feed the Trolls

Achievements/Rewards statistics for Spring Up Harmony

Spring Up Harmony PC was released a few months ago, it’s now a good time to study statistics of the rewards (or achievements) of the game. Rewards are a good way to see what the players are really doing in the game. These are the stats of online players that played the full version of… Continue reading Achievements/Rewards statistics for Spring Up Harmony

Never released game design and prototype #2 : DJ Machine

This is the second post of the series, you can read the introduction of the series in the first post. Project 13 I will talk about a prototype called “DJ Machine” (Project 13), that I started while Spring Up Harmony (PC X360) was being approved for Xbox Live Indie Games. I was looking for something… Continue reading Never released game design and prototype #2 : DJ Machine

Never released game design and prototype #1 : Museum Director

Last week-end, I ditched a prototype of a game because it was not as fun as I thought. It gave me the idea to blog about some of the game design documents and prototypes I made that were never released. It can really be interesting, because: If everyone agrees that the design sucks: I’ll definitely stop thinking… Continue reading Never released game design and prototype #1 : Museum Director

Spring Up Harmony PC – Rewards and Tips

Hi, the release of Spring Up Harmony PC will probably happen in the following weeks. Here is a post about the rewards included in the game and some tips for the hard ones. Beginner: Complete the first level of the game Top Scorer: Score 200,000 points in one level. Tip: Choose your level carefully when… Continue reading Spring Up Harmony PC – Rewards and Tips

Video : Dynamic level demo and background effect update

The development of Spring Up XNA has been going pretty well last week. Here is a new video, please note that it is still not the final art, just placeholders for now : You can see the following: New ways of using the physics engine in the levels (joints, gravity…) Small improvements on the background… Continue reading Video : Dynamic level demo and background effect update

Spring Up! XNA : first try at background effects

I spend some time trying to create an interesting visual effect in the background of Spring Up! XNA. The backgrounds of the PC/Mac versions are not really nice. I tried to do something more abstract and animated depending on the flow of the game. Geometry Wars 1 and 2 did a very good job at… Continue reading Spring Up! XNA : first try at background effects