“Tents and Trees”, The Puzzle Game Set In The Great Outdoors, Is Coming To Nintendo Switch

Get ready to pitch your tent, as the peaceful universe of Tents and Trees is making its way to Nintendo Switch™. Following its great success on mobile with more than 1.5 million players, we’re excited to bring Tents and Trees to the Nintendo Switch, with exclusive features and new content. After many difficulties to find… Continue reading “Tents and Trees”, The Puzzle Game Set In The Great Outdoors, Is Coming To Nintendo Switch

Revenue, expenses and statistics of Starlight X-2, a mobile puzzle game

Starlight X-2 is a puzzle game released on Google Play and iOS in June 2020. Six months after release, it’s a good time to evaluate the success or failure of this project. For those interested by the big picture, here is a simple visual summary of the expenses and revenue of the game: With Frozax Games,… Continue reading Revenue, expenses and statistics of Starlight X-2, a mobile puzzle game

An indie game developer discovering the world of user acquisition and advertising (with numbers)

I’ve been developing mobile games as a hobby for more than 5 years. My latest game (Tents and Trees) became quite successful and I decided to found my own company a few months ago. Tents and Trees has today about 800k downloads on Google Play and 100k on iOS (oh, and 112 downloads on Amazon App… Continue reading An indie game developer discovering the world of user acquisition and advertising (with numbers)

Mobile Game Localization: Countries, Numbers and Statistics

I’ve released a series of puzzle games on mobile (you can check them on the sidebar). Don’t Feed the Trolls and Hashi Puzzles: Bridges & Islands were localized in English and French; Battleship Solitaire Puzzles in ten languages (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese/Brazilian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean); and Hashi Extreme Puzzles in eleven languages (same… Continue reading Mobile Game Localization: Countries, Numbers and Statistics

Don’t Feed the Trolls 1.2 “Bears Update” is now Live!

A new version of Don’t Feed the Trolls is now available on iPhone/iPad and Android ! This major update adds nine levels, three characters, and five achievements. Discover new gameplay with the sleeping bear, the twin bears or the invisible bear and keep slapping the trolls getting in your way. Collect the additional stars and take… Continue reading Don’t Feed the Trolls 1.2 “Bears Update” is now Live!

My Experience Converting from XNA Game Studio 3.1 to 4.0

Microsoft released a big update to XNA Game Studio with version 4.0. The main improvement is Windows Phone 7 support. I will probably not develop for WP7 (see reasons below) but I still need to upgrade my current Xbox 360 project from XNA 3.1 to 4.0. The process was not as smooth as I though… Continue reading My Experience Converting from XNA Game Studio 3.1 to 4.0