Built a mobile specific, touch-screen, bite-size 12-Hour JRPG with 2.6 people in 9 months using $6,000 USD. We used several design paradigms found in Enterprise Software Development. We hope that you'll find our little tricks useful.
Each industry has a unique landscape that takes time to observe and understand. Coming into the game industry for the first time, we knew nothing. As a team, we've seen other industries. Was Exhibiting at GDC Play for $3250 USD worth the price of tuition?
We noticed some odd behavior in our ranking metrics. Some days we would sell less, but rise in rank more. We would like to share our metrics about “Play Sessions” and “Formula” hearsay. If we knew before, we may have designed our game differently.
Why aren’t there more Premium Games and Higher Prices on the AppStore? We’re not sure, but we have some interesting metrics about “Sessions” and “Formula” hearsay. "Nameless the Hackers" is a 12+ hour traditional turn-based RPG with no Virtual Pad.
Breaking into the mobile games industry. An indie development group’s retrospective on independently launching a Premium IOS J-RPG about Hackers. Coming from other industries, we knew metrics are important. We captured our “break-in” moment.
Sure We 're hoping to share what we can with the development community. r n r nPlease give us a link to the translated article. We 'll share it on our channels as well.
Currently we 're looking at the TapJoy Graphics which are reporting hourly session data. Chartboost also has a bootups metric too. r n r nAgain, we 're pretty unvalidated in this. Some devs on the TouchArcade Forums have mentioned they don 't feel this same affect. r n r nWe ...
Agreed Number Munchers Also LOGO, which wasn 't really an educational game, but more like a introduction to programming. Loved pushing that turtle around.
