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1) 30 vs 60 fps You might be able to pull off 60fps. It depends on your game quite a lot. Chances are 30fps will be a better target. The fill...
Apple has some sort of copy protection scheme set up that's behind the $99 wall. You check the app store receipt in the .app against the accounts...
Sorry to necro this thread a little bit, but I'm back with my experiences on the port. I spent a very long week porting Big Mountain Snowboarding...
It sounds like you have an uphill battle ahead. Middleware: This depends on your goal. It sounds like if you want to release something in the...
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/app-store-for-os-x-unveiled/ Time to dust of the mac version of my engine I suppose. Different/unknown...
Big Mountain Snowboarding. I kinda miss the big plank.
Reasons I am releasing two different versions of OverPowered: I want to track how each platform is selling. I had no information about this...
http://goldenhammersoftware.blogspot.com/2010/09/100k-animated-triangles-at-30fps-on.html I wrote up some notes after spending most of the week...
That's a big enough topic for it's own blog post, but here's the short version. 60k lines of C++, 3k lines of objective c, 3k lines of java....
As early as you can get people to pay attention to it? I've done both extremes: right before release (Big Mountain Snowboarding), and 2 years in...
Guess I was wrong. Not doing a separate version did prevent us from showing up on the new releases list though. I look at the android port as...
I hope it didn't sound completely negative. We're still doing better than most non-hits, and we now have a pretty nice cross-platform engine to...
This is really hard to say with authority. From what I've read, you can expect anywhere from 15%-50% return rate on games. You have a 48h(?)...
Since it's USA only and they only have two ads available...yeah. We ask for an iAd and if that fails we ask AdMob. It's looking like each is...
Gotta make those early customers happy. Once you have enough reviews a bad one here and there doesn't have much effect. edit: I see the...
http://goldenhammersoftware.blogspot.com/2010/07/big-mountain-snowboarding-history-and.html I wrote up a long essay about all the various...
Japan loves us. France likes free stuff. Paid: 55% US 13% JP 9% Other 7% GB 5% AU/CA Lite: 22% US 20% Other 14% JP 14% FR 3%...
Thanks for fixing the embed Skyye06, and thanks goldglover. We tried to make the maps all interesting in their own way. Some have big linked...
Here is a first look at the upcoming game Big Mountain Snowboarding. We're currently in beta and just putting some finishing touches on it before...