Digital Ruby

Mobile Application Growth

jermhoop — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:33:54 +0000

Jeff and I have recently gone full steam ahead in creating mobile applications and games. Before we created a game for the PC and XBOX called Math Asteroids. But we’ve come to realize that mobile is where the trend for device usage is headed and we need to prepare ourselves …

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Learning Corona SDK for iOS and Android Development

jermhoop — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:22:16 +0000

Learning Corona SDK for iOS and Android Development. One of the challenges of developing games in the mobile space is the number of devices available. There’s iPhones, Android phones, Windows phones, Blackberries (did I just say that one, never mind that, moving on). There’s a variety of devices and …

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Prototyping Your Video Games

jermhoop — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:52:24 +0000

In making mobile and video games, there are two main challenges. One is getting the game done. It just takes a sheer amount of effort and focus to finish a game. Because mobile game development is hard, I’d say the majority of people never actually complete their games. The second …

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Make a 5 Star Game Like Plants VS Zombies

jermhoop — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:13:24 +0000

I recently watched a series of slides on making a game like “Plants -vs- Zombies.” In this article, James Gwertzman writes about this game through a series of slides (which I’ll reference throughout this article). The game is made by PopCap, a big player in the casual games business. They …

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Connecting With Other Gamers

jermhoop — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:27:14 +0000

Connecting with other gamers. In building a game development company, one strategy Jeff and I could use is to just develop our games and put them out on the iPhone or Android app store and just sit and wait to see if they sell. We’ve done this before with games …

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What Game Should I Make?

jermhoop — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:51:40 +0000

What Game Should I Make? This is a good question if you are thinking about making any kind of computer game, video game, or mobile game. Jeff and I recently finished making our first game together, Math Asteroids. The way we decided to make it was pretty simple. We said, “Hey, …

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Is the RPG Dead?

jermhoop — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:15:04 +0000

Is the RPG dead? I read a couple articles about the death of the RPG (role-playing-game). One was “Is the RPG Genre Dead“. The other is “The RPG Is Dead, Long Live the RPG.“. Both articles seem fairly certain that the classic role playing game – the immersive RPG, …

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Marketing and Selling Games For Realz

jermhoop — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:49:37 +0000

Jeff and I made Math Asteroids and it is now available for Windows Phone and XBOX 360. Yipeeeeee right? Yes, we made and released a fully functional game. We’re excited – we actually made a game and it’s in the app store for Windows Phone. So…. is anyone buying it? …

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Remembering Classic Old School Games

jermhoop — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:51:32 +0000

Remembering Old School Classic Games Remembering old school classic games. I believe this is a key to the future of gaming. I remember as a young 6th grader back at the end of the 1980′s opening a computer game box with three shadow-lords on it. In it was a map, …

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Game Development Is Hard

jermhoop — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:46:08 +0000

Game development is hard. It just is. As I develop games, I feel like this girl and want to just cry. The pain, agony, and frustration of it all makes me wonder if there is an easier way… You see, my brother Jeff and I have been playing and making …

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