You may or may not have noticed the increase in game releases from Gamevil over the past couple of months. There has been quite an increased amount if you compare it to the same time last year. That is because Gamevil has gotten into publishing games developed by third-party companies and not in-house.
You may remember yesterday when we posted our DroidGamers website update and that we talked about a new program we will be opening up for indie Android game developers who would like to advertise here on DroidGamers but can’t due to having a tight budget.
Up until now the Playstation Suite SDK has been in a closed beta but as of today it is now being opened up to more developers and the status is being changed to an open beta. The Playstation Suite SDK is a set of tools developers can use to create games for Playstation Certified devices whether it be the PS Vita or the Sony Tablet S and everything in between.
Big companies just love to flog the little guys with their money these days. Some recent examples of this would be Facebook flogging Instagram with a billion dollars and Zynga’s purchase of OMGPOP for $180 million. Now Zynga is saying that we should all expect more deals like the OMGPOP buy-out in the near future.
Copycat apps is one of the biggest annoyances in mobile gaming. When one particular kind of app finds great success, some developers choose to piggyback on the popular app instead of trying to create something new and exciting. In some cases, developers take code from existing apps and reverse engineer them to their liking. To combat this, Amazon recommends developers obfuscate their code.
We have talked about the Hooked game recommendation and discovery application for Android a few times in the past. Well late last night an update was pushed out that brings a new feature to the application called Critic’s Choice. So what does this new feature entail?
It’s every developer’s dream to make a fortune off their apps, but the reality is only a small percentage of apps make enough money to send a developer into an early retirement. Sometimes apps literally become more trouble than they’re work. Instead of remaining the captain of a sinking ship, developers can choose to sell their app in its entirety on a newly-opened site called Apptopia.
The Android app ecosystem is apparently a “chaotic cesspool” as far as Research in Motion’s Vice President of Developer Relations Alec Saunders is concerned. Last week, Saunders wrote on Twitter that a whopping 25% of Android apps are pirated. As a result, RIM will encrypt apps in the next BlackBerry OS update.
Welcome to another edition of our Crowdfunding series where we take a look at some of the projects developers are hosting on some of the major crowdfunding sites regarding Android games and gaming. This week Kickstarter seems to have really picked up with the Android-based projects.
As part of our extended GDC 2012 coverage, we ran into the fine folks from LunarG who have developed an SDK that will let Android game developers add features to their games that will let players record and share in-game recordings just by installing a free SDK. Best part is, you won’t need root as a player.
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