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 talk about games on a fairly regular basis that end up being released initially with restrictions on what countries can download it or are just a location exclusive title permanently. This happens a lot with some really great games that happen to end up being for Japan Android users only.
As hardened Android users, I’m sure you noticed a little bug that has been around for a good while. Whenever you would download an app from a third-party such as the Amazon Appstore, it would show up in Google Play as if you purchased it from there. With the latest Google Play update, that issue no longer exists.
At the end of March, some Android users noticed the Google Play app was having some issues. In some cases, Google Play would not display the apps they paid for. Google Play also started to force close more than usual. Although these bugs weren’t experienced by everyone, Google still rolled out an update to Google Play to resolve these issues.
There’s a developer within Google Play that you should watch out for. They’re called Free Games Apps Devlopers! (their spelling), and they currently have six “games” under their belt. Free Games Apps Devlopers! is running scams on unsuspecting users by making them think they’re downloading games, but they’re really just bombarding players with spam.
Another game we talked about a few days ago was the interesting action strategy game from 4Gency called Node.Hack. Based around a theme of hacking, this combines both puzzle and arcade game mechanics into one title with a bit of a flare for retro game visuals.
If you happen to be a developer for Android based anywhere in Europe, you may not have gotten your revenue from your app/game selling on Google Play for the month of February. If this has happened, you are not alone as many developers are reporting this issue over on the official forums.
Continuing on with the sale to celebrate the re-branding of the Android Market to Google Play, a few new games have been added to the list of titles on sale for $0.49 including Gameloft’s Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation and Gamevil’s Colosseum.
While I’m not personally eager to start addressing the former Google storefront as Google Play, I can definitely appreciate the search giants vision in unify Google+, Android Market and Chrome Web Store in one easy to browse shopping experience.
Google yesterday re-branded the Android Market and it is now called Google Play. For those of you with a keen interest in all things Google, you may realize that this name sounds very familiar. That is because it is the same rumored name for the Nexus Tablet apparently in production we recently talked about.
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