Submissions by Liam (adliberum.com) tagged calcul8

A submission for #30DAYDEV 2019 18

2nd day of launch on Facebook Instant Games, starting to see some serious traffic, plus checking the leaderboard for calcul8² clearly shows people are playing it and some for rather long play times.

This is why I love publishing to Facebook Instant Games. Seeing people actually playing your game.

1st day of being live on Facebook, slow start, but as they say, slow and steady wins the race, either that or its a) to do with the ² in the name or b) they've switched things since I last used it.

Wrote a case-study about the development of Calcul8² at http://devinfocus.com/2018/11/case-study-calcul82/

And live tweeted it at https://twitter.com/liamtwose/status/1067788007334395904

Well let me tell you, publishing to Windows Store is complex and was far from smooth. However I did it and now await their decision =D

Lot's of things that threw me with this one:
Huge install times (hours)
Problems importing the package.
Lengthy validation fail process and packaging.
Revision number kept firing back as incorrect. Revision numbers MUST have 0 on the end (i.e. 1.0.0.0) as the final 0 is reserved for MS use.

Plethora of new image (90+ so far) assets to create (there is supposed to be a generator tool, but it wasn't there so... manual)

Thought I'd get this one in early, gives me the rest of the day to chillax. Literally just submitted Calcul8² to Google Play, to gauge interest from the mobile side. This will be the first time I've actually published an app on Amazon / Google that will be paid. So interested to see whether there's any precedence over paid vs free from 'store' side.

Relatively easy as a few images matched the resolutions from amazon images and the APK signing was a doddle and all handled with Construct 3's export functions.

Because Calcul8² is so simple there really is little to change / update (unless bugs surface) so I've just spend half the day pushing to Amazon App Store to make it available on Kindle Fire devices etc.

Another 7 images! All of which 'again' required unique image resolutions. Super easy to submit though which used a .zip file with html5 genned code inside.

Hoping the approval process is swift! In the meantime I will see what other stores I could release to.

Today has been spent creating the plethora of images required to submit your game to Facebook Instant Games.

All done, and Calcul8² has now been submitted for review! Fingers crossed I covered every base.

Point your device/s at https://www.adliberum.com/x/calcul82 to play!
OR on itchio at https://liamtwose.itch.io/calcul82

Spent the day implementing a smart save system to replace the old 'rudimentary' version. Plus interstitial ads will be in this time round (shall see how they pan out).

Point your devices at: https://www.adliberum.com/x/calcul82

The remainder of my #30daydev will now be spent making all the images, icons, banners, screenshots and video required in order to pass review xD

That's right, if the last two months have taught me nothing else its the importance of taking breaks. So apart from making a few slight changes to Calcul8² I've been busy with life today.

Also managed to hit my Samsung health 60 minutes of activity target too.

Was great to finally be able to throw my hand at a light bit of game dev. Started a remake of Calcul8 which I've very cleverly named Calcul8² (Calcul8 squared)

Check it out at: https://www.adliberum.com/x/calcul82