Hey Soo yew guan, that's nice game. What do you use to create it? opengl? or cocos2d?
good luck man. i have one game too.. but it sucks.. haha thinking to do a major update though..

Thanks, I am glad you like it. I was using Cocos2d before, but I recently switch to the game engine created by 71Squared (http://www.71squared.com).

Based on my experience Cocos2d is basically easier to code your game, but I am facing a lots problem in integrating other features I want for my game.
The 71Squared game engine, on the other hand, is based on original OpenGL that you got from XCode template. Although it take time to understand the structure as compared to Cocos2d.

hi

just found one interesting article

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/18/has-the-iph...lready-crashed/

it talked about another article that said that the app market have already crashed
http://www.develop-online.net/news/35640/T...already-crashed


the tuaw.com article summarised


what i can understand from the article is that big company like EA is not getting the big bucks that they wanted, those that are making bucks are small developer. if this is true then more power to the little guys, yeyyy

reading through the comments i found this fascinating point


is it true?

do also read the comment section of the article also, it have been enlightening with regards to the process of app development

please do comment on this issue from the malaysian app developer

thanks

Hi. Just was wondering. Any one up to takeup any development projects? Send me a pm. Preferably within kl. Easier to deal and discuss. I have a few ideas but rhe api docs and examples are like french to me. Hahah. Im more of a learn by example guy. But as we all know iphone examples (aside tge developer site)are as rare as ss7 examples haha

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sooyewguan,
I see. I haven't used any game engine so far. I wrote the game from scratch. I went to cocos2d website before, but suddenly lazy to read haha.. but quite interested to try it.

qawyhamz,
that is pretty much true. Games category is hard to compete. Because there are so many big developer who sells their game at 1.99 or 99cents. Such as Gameloft, EA, etc. And looking at their games, are mostly 3D and very polished graphics and gameplay. They can do it, because they have plenty of resources/expertise/manpower. Individual developer like us, struggles... fyi, my first game is making 0 nowadays for many2 months already.

BUT (here comes the big but), there are cases where smalltime developer make it big, like those 2 brothers who created Doodle Jump game.. making $3mil+ up to now.. so selling games its like gambling really.. haha.. if u lucky, u get the jackpot!

Well, the problem is people willing to spend few bucks for a Starbuck, rather than a game. I think it is really a crucial moment when you release you game into app store, that if you can't make yourself into Top 100 within few days, most likely you will have difficulty to get a good sales.


I am working on a new game currently, hopefully this one can sell better than the first one


This post has been edited by sooyewguan: Aug 29 2010, 06:00 PM

sooyewguan, for some reason, im unable to open your website. cant see the spoiler either..

For some reason my previous post just got deleted. I looking for developers with any large scale project coming up. We can definitely collaborate on some project together.

App Store has always been the playground for indie developer and that the factor that made it more attractive than any other mobile application store out there. Most of the top 10 paid are dominated by indie and that is not something that will change anytime soon even if large developer like GameLoft and EA decided to throw app bundle for $0.99 (they are already did so).

You just need to set your marketing strategy correctly and it should sell enough to recover your cost. Focus on the Top 8 market which is U.S, Canada, UK, Australia, France, Netherland, Italy, Japan. If everything is done well, one day sales in one of these market alone will beat the one month sales for Malaysia. We all know more than half the people in Malaysia couldn't bother to purchase anything.


It's working now.

This post has been edited by ken_wickedboy: Aug 30 2010, 12:30 PM

ken wickedboy, are u an indie individual developer or are you consist of many developers?

just an indie

Hi guys,

As an iOS developer too, I would like to plan a meet up for local developers.

As I could see most of the developers are individuals, therefore it will be great if we could meet up and share our mind and at least we know we are not alone

How about this sunday 5/9/2010 around kl or pj area?

Great. I am an indie too. I'd like to ask do you register your company with SSM?
Care to share about the process to register if you did it? I am still assigned to an individual
developer account with iTunes.

Hey GrimLock. The company is not registered locally. Am an unregistered sole proprietor.

hi all developers,

did any of you recently release any new app being rejected due to the app doesn't run well on ipad? i don't have the real ipad yet, but i already fully tested my app using the ipad simulator and iphone 3GS device, the app is working well. but apple sent me an email saying the app is ok for running on iphone, but some parts are not working on the ipad.

did you all test the app using the real ipad? looks like the ipad simulator is really not as good as the iphone simulator.

I see. thanks.

Don't really have an iPad as a test device yet but I doubt it really matters unless you're building a Universal binary or unless it screws up big time? Did they specify?

i can't find out the problem using ipad simulator, Apple reveiw the app using real ipad. well, i think i better temporary change the targeted device family to iphone only, and lets see what will happen next.

Did you intended for a Universal binary? Binary that supports iPad rather than the typical X2 mode, requires you to support all orientation. That is probably the most obvious fix!

ken_wickedboy,
thanks for the info. i will double check again this weekend or next weekend. at the mean time, i re-submitted the binary with targeted for iphone/ipod only. well, since thi is my new app built using the iOS 4.0 sdk, i did predicted there might be something not so right whenever there is a new sdk. it's weird, for updated app using the iOS4.0 sdk seems ok, only new app got rejected.

This post has been edited by david888: Sep 3 2010, 11:15 PM