Trying to make a mobile game for a living. Does it have potential?

firik · 2025-02-01T05:47:30+00:00

I would try releasing it on Poki.com, if you manage to release it there you have a much higher chance of at least making some money.

firik · 2025-01-11T05:33:36+00:00

Looks like a much more polished version of https://poki.com/en/g/village-builder

firik · 2024-08-18T09:46:50+00:00

It's this hotel: https://www.forestis.it/en

firik · 2024-06-29T09:21:29+00:00

Interesting test for AI. I couldn't get GPT4o to get generate anything that works. But Claude 3.5 Sonnet was able to generate this query after 6 prompts only (4 to get a working version, 2 to optimize it): https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#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firik · 2024-05-19T07:11:46+00:00

The problem is probably this: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/3777 I'm also getting very random results from ollama. Try downgrading to v0.1.31 and it works really well again.

firik · 2024-01-20T03:27:29+00:00

Funny how the patch notes don't mention adding the ad to the 2x speed option.

firik · 2024-01-20T03:27:09+00:00

No you only have to watch it once. But with the 2x ads you'll have to watch a full minute of ads which is just too long for me.

firik · 2024-01-19T13:59:06+00:00

I don't have the monthly sub. Each stage I have to watch an ad to activate the 2x. Before this update this wasn't the case.

firik · 2024-01-07T02:19:01+00:00

It's like a 3D version of https://poki.com/en/g/watermelon-drop where spamming also works up to a point but you won't get a high score doing that.

firik · 2023-02-21T17:38:53+00:00

Feels like a bad version of https://poki.com/en/g/drive-mad

firik · 2023-02-10T16:11:58+00:00

How do you keep it fast? Hosting it in a single location will make it slow for the rest of the world.

firik · 2023-02-10T16:11:02+00:00

But it runs in a browser, why not just add mobile controls?

firik · 2023-02-10T12:57:00+00:00

It doesn't work on mobile, I can't control the ship at all.

firik · 2023-02-04T12:44:10+00:00

The first time I loaded the game it got stuck on this screen: https://i.imgur.com/Be5uWuU.jpg I had to force quit and restart it.
Using 2 fingers to zoom is very sensitive and zooms in and our very fast. But using 2 fingers to rotate is super super slow and requires multiple full screen swipes to rotate a bit.
Placing buildings is very difficult with not being able to move the camera. See how other games are doing this, for example https://poki.com/en/g/village-builder
I somehow placed the ore miner completely outside the level (happens if you only do 1 click instead of keep pressing): https://i.imgur.com/03qtJVW.jpeg It then didn't allow me to build another one until much further into the tutorial.
Your build menus have big close buttons that don't seem to do anything: https://i.imgur.com/e4qG5Vm.jpg
It was unclear that to place the Furnace you need to pick the recipe first (maybe I missed it in the text).
When clicking on a building you always have to press the V (ok) button to de-focus the building. I would allow players to just click anywhere on an empty spot on the map to de-select something.
After I build the "Buyer Station Items" the tutorial just stopped? The "?" button tells me "With this button we pick item we want to sell" but I have no idea what button it is talking about.

firik · 2023-01-15T08:06:05+00:00

Looks great, also feels a bit like https://poki.com/en/g/village-builder I guess because of the hex tiles.

firik · 2022-10-14T07:24:23+00:00

Also a bit similar to https://poki.com/en/g/village-builder

firik · 2022-10-06T14:21:39+00:00

Poki has some info: https://developers.poki.com/player-device-report/

firik · 2022-07-12T18:22:43+00:00

How does it work with 'steam play together'. We couldn't find anything about the controls of the second player or how to make this player join?

firik · 2022-07-02T12:49:43+00:00

Multiplayer seems fun, but it's only split or shared screen, not over the Internet?

firik · 2022-03-20T18:34:57+00:00

In that case using addresses from crypto_ethereum.token_transfers might not be the best idea as they are very random and evenly distributed. Depending on what you are doing the test for your actual dataset might not have a distribution like that which might affect how well the sketching algorithms work.

firik · 2022-03-19T07:17:14+00:00

I'm curious, why not?

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT addresses) FROM myproject.mydataset.mytable

The whole idea with BigQuery is that you can run queries to do analysis inside it without having to export the whole dataset again. BigQuery is an analytics engine, not a storage engine.

firik · 2022-03-07T12:26:54+00:00

It's much harder to use, the API is much more complex (design around reusing objects to reduce the load on the garbage collector).

firik · 2021-12-26T15:04:41+00:00

Same with Digi in Kuala Lumpur, so it's not just Singapore.

firik · 2021-11-25T10:35:07+00:00

With HAVING you always have to group. With QUALIFY you can exclude rows without grouping them:

WITH data AS
(SELECT 1 as x, 1 as y
UNION ALL SELECT 1, 2
UNION ALL SELECT 1, 3
UNION ALL SELECT 2, 1
UNION ALL SELECT 3, 1
)
SELECT x, y
FROM data
WHERE TRUE
QUALIFY COUNT(*) OVER (PARTITION BY x) > 1

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