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 Here is list of our games and apps with list of changes and details about each item. Click icon below to jump quickly to detail:

WOODVENTURE

Woodventure is classic mahjong connect game. Mahjong connect games have simple rule: two tiles can be connected if path between them has maximum of two turns. Your target is to clear whole board.     Woodventure has 18 levels and you are traveling from one to next on map of the wood.   During game you can use three types of bonuses:   hint: will show you one of next possible match,   bomb: will blast random pair on board,   reshuffle: will reshuffle all tiles on board   For fast matching you are getting combo points. Total score is for: matches, combos, remaining time and level bonus. Every time you start level, you see what is your best score for this level. You can play any level multiple times. If you do so, your total score is cumulated. (back to applist)

FLAT JEWELS MATCH 3

Flat Jewels Match 3 is classic match 3 game in modern flat design. It employs well known game mechanics in this simple yet addictive version. Game has two modes: Levels mode and Time Attack mode. In Levels mode you will go through 150 levels fulfilling simple tasks. In Time Attack mode you will aim to reach highest possible score in limited time. Game contains 20 achievements and 2 leaderboards.  In this game we tried to differentiate from all similar games with simple design, small install size, quick gameplay and we do not push players into any IAPs. Based on target platform and appstore the game has implemented Google Play services, Amazon Game Circle and Apple Game Center. This is also our first game that uses Google Analytics to tune difficulty of levels based on data from players. (back to applist)

FRUIT DATING

Fruit Dating is original puzzle game with simple rules. It was first published int the beginning of December 2013 on Android OS. There are two versions of the game: free and paid one. In the free one the user has to accept ads while the full one is without them.  In both versions when the player is stuck and can not solve puzzle he or she may purchase solution via in app purchases. Actually, the player does not buy solution but stars that work as in game currency and solution is then bought for these stars. The player can also earn stars for playing well. In some versions we tried to reward player with stars for watching video ads. For any first IAP purchase in free version the ads are permanently removed from the game. (back to applist)

SHARDS

Shards is clone of popular Arkanoid / Breakout games. We tried to make a really nice clone. Every single level has its own fractal background with bricks originally arranged. The game features really great soundtrack.  The game is in two versions - free with ads and paid without it. The users of free version can upgrade to full one directly from app with in app purchase. They can get discount by installing some of our other games (Fruit Dating, Deadly Abyss 2).  Currently this game became our flagship. (back to applist)

DEADLY ABYSS 2

Deadly abyss 2 is game with submarine. You control it with screen touches and you can launch torpedoes against enemies simply with swiping with your finger. There are also three huge and dangerous bosses.  Two versions are available - full without ads and free with it.  You may ask where in portfolio is Deadly Abyss 1? Original Deadly Abyss was our game for old Symbian phones and if interested you can see some screenshots here. (back to applist)

FUTOSHIKI

Futoshiki is Japanese puzzle game. Similar to Sudoku but different :-) Your target is to fill Latin square with numbers from 1 to 5. The game is paid or free with ads.  As the game contains puzzle generator inside it can generate infinite number of puzzles! It can also solve them in human-like manner so when generating it is possible to rate the difficulty and when user asks for easy puzzle then prepare easy one for him or her. (back to applist)

MAHJONG TRIS

Mahjong Tris was first game in my "new era". Previously I had experience with Symbian, Gameboy, Atari, ...  The game was made first for Samsung bada OS. When launching there was big contest. We made it into top 300 qualifiers and won new phone. After some time the game was rewritten to use my cross-platform engine and published on Android. (back to applist)

Shards is featured at Samsungapps.com!

 This post comes after long time as we were working hard on our last two games: Shards and Fruit Dating.

 Although the games were released already in December there is still a lot of work to be done. We primary released it for Android platform but as we want to be cross-platform as much as possible we released both the games for Samsung bada OS. Original resolution was 1280 x 800 pixels, but bada phones have lower resolution (800 x 480). When relaying on OpenGL to scale it down we experienced FPS decrease. It is not surprising as 800 x 480 / 1280 x 800 = 37,5%! It means that more than 60% of processed pixels were thrown away. In the end we had to downscale the graphics assets. If you own bada phone, you can see the result at Samsungapps here and here.

 We are also working on adjustments of the android versions to be suitable for other appstores. We already published Shards at Samsungapps and wow! we got featured in Czech version of the store:

 It is mainly thanks to support Samsung gives to local developers. But we hope Shards will find its fans. If interested click this button:

 And there is one more news related to Samsung. Samsung together with Intel are probably most active members of Tizen project - linux based OS for mobile phones. While it has not yet been released there is already tizenstore where developers can register their apps. We passed certification with both the games and they are now waiting for day zero when the store opens.

 Presently we are working on iOS version. The games can already be run, but there is still missing music and we have to manage game interruption at any point.

 Finally, there is very interesting project named Emscripten. This tool allows you to compile your C/C++ based game into javascript, so it can be run in browser. You usually has to do some changes into source, but not any drastic ones. We already managed to run Fruit Dating in it, although there is still some work waiting.

 Beside porting to various platforms we are also finding the right way to monetize our games. Selling the game is other half of independent developer's business. You are lost if you have great game but no one knows of it... I consider writing series of monthly monetization reports to share our experience and of course ... also to make some publicity to our games.

Fruit Dating is out!

 As I wrote in previous post, this week was really busy. We released two new games: FRUIT DATING and SHARDS!

 This post is on Fruit Dating. You can read about Shards here.

 Fruit Dating is original puzzle game in which you match pairs of fruit of the same color simply by swiping with your finger. The finger motion matches the tilting of the board in any given direction. So, while trying to fulfill your goal, various obstacles like stones, cars or other fruit, hinder the way.

With advanced levels the date-lusty fruit are encountering various other pitfalls such as: one-way tiles, puddles of mud or animal kingdom representatives looking forward to enliven their diet with juicy fruit!

 This time SBC Games joined their forces with LittleColor and with great music composer Matúš Široký. The result is very nice game featuring:

·       three unique worlds,

·       challenge in each of 60+ levels,

·       addictive game play and graphics,

·       new game elements to diversify the game and bring new challenges,

·       25 achievements to fulfill,

·       original music soundtrack.

 We took it really seriously so we have web page. We have presskit. And we have great promo graphics:
 

 The game is currently available for Android, but bada and Tizen version will come closely. In future I would like add iOS as well.

 During development we had to solve basic problem of all logic puzzles ... where to get levels? In the end we made tool that is generating them procedurally for us. Of course we had to carefully select from the generator output but plenty of levels were interesting or required only small adjustments (while other were total trash). In future I will probably post an article about making the tool on this blog.

Shards is out!

This week was really busy. We released two new games SHARDS and FRUIT DATING!

 In this post I will introduce Shards and Fruit Dating will be introduced in this post.

 Shards is clone of  Arkanoid / Breakout games. It is a modern approach to the classic brick breaking game. Each of the 50 levels has its own fractal background, uniquely arranged as well as arbitrary scaled and rotated glass bricks for you to destroy.

 The game features about ten various power-ups and a great original soundtrack.

 To manage the physics we employed well known physics library Box2D.

 The game is currently available for Android but Samsung bada version is already in approval process and Tizen version is just a matter of upcoming weeks. The game is made using our small cross platform engine. On this blog I am posting on topics I came accross when building it.

Form game features:

 - enter a world of 50 levels full of glass:

 - each level has its own original stunning fractal background,

 - glassy bricks are of arbitrary sizes and rotate to bring you interesting patterns to destroy,
 - ten power-ups will help you to clean the board,
 - listen to an original soundtrack,
 - play through three difficulty levels

 

Fruit Dating - upcoming puzzle game

 One more post today. Beside Shards I am also working on another game. The name is Fruit Dating and my role in the project is programmer. Bellow you can see some screenshots from the game. Very nice and neat graphics is work of Tomáš Kopecký from LittleColor.com.

 The game is logical puzzle and target platforms are Android, bada and new Linux based OS Tizen. The screenshots are taken from working desktop Windows version (through OpenGL ES emulation libraries).

 If you ever tried to make puzzle game you will agree that most of the work is in design of puzzles. It is also valid for our game, but thanks to small trick we saved lot of work. The name of this trick is: procedural generation.

 To create interesting puzzles we created generator/editor. It is written in Java and it can not only generate puzzles, but also solve them. The generator is also focused on aesthetic side of puzzle - it tires to generate more or less symmetric walls. With drag and drop features you can adjust positions of fruit and stones and then resolve the level to check whether it is still solvable.

The second part of the tool is editor where we can decorate the level with trees, ...

 The game will be finished this year and we hope you will enjoy it!

Shards - Work In Progress II

 Here comes our second and last work in progress video. The last one as we are almost finished. The game currently runs on Android, bada and even Tizen - new upcoming Linux based mobile OS.

 Compare our progress with previous WIP video here.

 The game uses our own small cross-platform engine. Beside above mentioned mobile platforms it also runs on desktop Windows thanks to OpenGL ES simulation libraries from Imagination Technologies. For physics simulation it uses great Box2D library.

 And yes ...! That great music is also from Shards.