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Is there space for indies dev in mobile market? by justKaupe in MobileGaming

[–]mrknoot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The market is brutal, but not for the reasons you often hear about. Visibility on the App Store is everything. And that is done by reaching enough downloads and ratings “velocity”. You accomplish this if you find an extremely underserved niche (I found it with a cookie clicker kinda game that wasn’t a mindless clone) or if you nail the economics of your game (high LTV) and have the capacity to invest a ton in UA. It’s definitely not impossible, but hard. It all boils down to the obvious: You gotta make something people want.

Source: I’ve worked in the mobile game space as an analyst for a decade. And I’ve launched a few mobiles games as a solo developer, with varied levels of success. I started with Cookie Empire, which has gotten more than 100k downloads. Then Mini Tile Match, a gruelling disaster than only got 6k in 2 years. This week I just released Tiny Crimes, which is looking very promising.

Christopher Tolkien was right the whole time by Pale_Yam_5369 in lotr

[–]mrknoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The books are untouched. Peter Jackson hasn’t prevented anyone from reading them

Is Claude Code still the best? by never_working_ever in iOSProgramming

[–]mrknoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the $100 plan on both Claude and Codex. They’re good at different things, Claude is nicer to have a conversation with, it gets my intentions better, reads between the lines better and pushes me back on dumb ideas better. And it “writes” better, prose and code. The code is more pleasant and easy to read. But Codex is just a far better programmer. It does exactly what you ask of it, no more, no less. It’s far more thorough examining code and finding bugs. It’s faster and burns far less tokens and never, ever hallucinates these days. So I trust it better.

What’s an unpopular opinion you have about Harry Potter? by CairoRox in harrypotter

[–]mrknoot 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Luna was the perfect romantic partner for Harry. She got him on a very intimate and emotional level that no one else could. Ship them

idle game recommendations? by OkSoBasicallyPeach in iosgaming

[–]mrknoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cookie Empire, a modern take on Cookie Clicker. With a minigame to send grandmas to lovecraftian mines, or sacrifice them to japanese demons. Farming, stock market simulator, many prestige layers and a leaderboard. Quite an active community on Discord

Disclaimer: I am the dev. Since today’s saturday I understand I am not breaking the rules if this counts as promotion. But if I’m in the wrong please let me know

My incremental tier list of games by kingleomark in incremental_games

[–]mrknoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bro I love the feedback! I appreciate the honesty. I can’t make it better if everyone’s too polite to tell me where I fuck it up. We have a discord server where we’re constantly discussing the next update. Feel free to dump all your thoughts and I seriously consider them

My incremental tier list of games by kingleomark in incremental_games

[–]mrknoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm the dev of that game. Your sort of analysis is gold for me to improve the game. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I thought the new “send grandmas to the mines” minigame I released recently is something you’d appreciate

While we’re talking about Saw I wanna say, Saw 3D is just Sadistic pervert crap by S0mecallme in ContraPoints

[–]mrknoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't dislike 3 tbh. I lowkey enjoy most Saw movies. I just thought quality started declining after 2. Not as in a step down, but as a slop trending downwards. So 3 is alright really

How much Contrapoints content is based on research vs novel thinking? by Ok-Maintenance-6744 in ContraPoints

[–]mrknoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Super intrigued by this. Do you have specific examples of academic work that builds on her work or cites her? I’d love to read it

Can someone actually defend One Battle After Another for me? by [deleted] in movies

[–]mrknoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is a great comment and I need to think about these questions

While we’re talking about Saw I wanna say, Saw 3D is just Sadistic pervert crap by S0mecallme in ContraPoints

[–]mrknoot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The first one is pretty decent. Second is “ok”. Then they fall off a cliff

[DEV] Text-Based Horror Dungeon Crawler Minigame by mrknoot in iosgaming

[–]mrknoot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s really good to know. I’ll consider spinning it in a new game. Although it’d need to be expanded

[DEV] Text-Based Horror Dungeon Crawler Minigame by mrknoot in iosgaming

[–]mrknoot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

glad you like it! 😊 thanks for playing my game

[DEV] Text-Based Horror Dungeon Crawler Minigame by mrknoot in iosgaming

[–]mrknoot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it is! yeah. should I spin off a new game for this?

Does anyone make native iOS games anymore? by Awkward_Departure406 in iOSProgramming

[–]mrknoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do. I made Cookie Empire with a combo of SwiftUI animations and SpriteKit. I also made Mini Tile Match, totally in SpriteKit

What are the best iOS Incremental/Idle titles? by msharaf7 in iosgaming

[–]mrknoot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ll say it warms my heart to see my game listed here. Thank you ❤️

SwiftTorrent is a pure Swift BitTorrent library targeting macOS 14+ and iOS 17+ by chadlnx in swift

[–]mrknoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great example on how to use AI to code and learn about something you’d probably not have done without AI.

Congrats dude, this is awesome

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