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The Strategies Behind a $5M+ Per Day Mobile Game (Clash of Clans)

The Strategies Behind a $5M+ Per Day Mobile Game (Clash of Clans) A little more than 3 years older, Clash of Clans rankes much more than $1M $5M5 daily and regularly graphs in the top three grossing apps.  It is the app that brand new video game developers look to for motivation. But the future didn’t generally look so vibrant for the game’s developer, Supercell.  In mid-2011 the year-old firm discovered their web- and Facebook-first technique would not produce the hit game they required (this was later in the Facebook game craze), so that they rapidly changed to a tablet-first strategy and destroyed all of their old games.  At that time, touch screen phones – and especially tablets – were an unproved marketplace, however their exciting technique determined. By mid-2012, Supercell got launched one tablet game and eliminated two, nonetheless they were acquiring nearer to the objective.  Profits lastly came in May 2012 once the freshly introduced Hay Day r...

Error building Player: Win32Exception: zipalign.exe in Unity3d [FIXED]

Recently i was getting this error in one of my game, But unable to figure out where the problem is but after searching lots of site, finally got the solution on stackoveflow and that was simply 1 minute solution you wont believe. They error was this Error building Player: Win32Exception: Error building Player: Win32Exception: ApplicationName='C:/Users/craiglerr/Desktop/adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20140624/sdk\tools\zipalign.exe', CommandLine='4 "C:\Users\craiglerr\Desktop\Game\Temp/StagingArea/Package_unaligned.apk" "C:\Users\craiglerr\Desktop\Game\Temp/StagingArea/Package.apk"', CurrentDirectory='Temp/StagingArea' Soulution: Just goto your Android SDK folder Go to build-tools and select a version (e.g.build-tools\22.0.1) Copy zipalign.exe Go back to build-tools Go into tools Paste zipalign.exe That's it! Now build game and Error building Player: Win32Exception: zipalign.exe in Unity will never come a...

Open Source Game Engines, 13 Here To Choose From

Looking for open source game engines Frameworks for building games across multiple platforms. Here i collected 13 game engines to choose from. cocos2d / cocos2d-x cocos2d-x for C++ okamstudio / godot Godot Game Engine SFTtech / openage Free (as in freedom) open source clone of the Age of Empires II engine. turbulenz / turbulenz_engine Turbulenz is a modular 3D and 2D game framework for making HTML5 powered games for browsers, desktops and mobile devices. GarageGames / Torque3D MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 3D from GarageGames OpenRA / OpenRA An open-source implementation of the Command & Conquer: Red Alert engine using .NET/Mono and OpenGL. Gamua / Starling-Framework The Cross Platform Game Engine gameplay3d / GamePlay Cross-platform 3D native C++ game framework for mobile and desktop games. GarageGames / Torque2D MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 2D from GarageGames spring / spring A powerful free cross-platform RTS engine jMonkeyEngine / jmonkeye...