Streamlining Operations

Unfortunately, developing casual games for mobile platforms has become quite a hassle.
There are millions of games and apps available because basically anyone with minimal knowledge can make one, thus, developing a new game makes no sense, markets prioritize the most popular games and don’t really promote new titles unless you have a big fat budget for marketing.

At the same time, there are these stupid new regulations, like GDPR and CPRA. Marketplaces have their own rules, which they change from time to time, like the Google Play Store, which requires updating the app at least once every 2 years, otherwise, it will be automatically removed.
Plus, sometimes I need to update games to fix my own bugs and add new features.

Anyway, keeping numerous games in compliance with all the new rules and regulations is quite a soul-sucking task, so I’ve decided to remove most games from markets except for the two most popular and profitable.

All-in-One Solitaire and All-in-One Mahjong are both available for Android, iOS, Windows 10+ and online.
I will keep updating those games and add new features.

All other games, All-Peaks Solitaire, Shadow Solitaire, Rainbow Lines and Match Jong are only available online at the Pozirk Games website.

At the same time, there is some good news! 🙂
Old Flash games, that stopped working after Adobe stopped distributing Flash plugin, are slowly coming back to life!
Thanks to Ruffle, a Flash Player emulator.
It is still in beta, but several games are working just fine already.
Balloon Express – works!
Feed The Furry – works!
Instant Football – works!
Mad Tanks – works, but there are some bugs and game doesn’t save the progress.
Total Construction – almost works, but not yet.
Resistance Is Useless – not yet.
Space Age – not yet.
Dolly The Sheep – not yet.
Charlie Likes Strawberries – not yet.

Mad Tanks, Space Age and Resistance Is Useless are still my 3 most favorite games.



NOOK Apps Store Closure

Btw, yes.
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NOOK App Store is closed.
I don’t own any of NOOK Tablets, but I liked their apps store as a developer. 🙂
All-in-One Solitaire game was always among top games.
One of their main features was that they had only PAID apps, but apparently it didn’t make them enough profit, so they switched to Google Play on newer NOOK Tablets and closed their own store.
Ç’est dommage. 🙁






Rainbow Lines

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Slowing I keep releasing Rainbow Lines game.
I can build the game for almost any platform (not Windows RT, unfortunately), but some bugs and lack of functionality in OpenFL prevent me from releasing it.

So far I have released the game for the following markets:
Rainbow Lines for Kindle Fire on Amazon AppStore
Rainbow Lines for NOOK Tablets on BN App Store

Also, Rainbow Lines is now available online for FREE!

iPad and iPhone version still awaiting moderation.
As for the Blackberry, Windows, Mac and Linux… I will release for these platforms as soon as I fix bugs or find some workarounds.

Huh… next couple of posts I will dedicate to OpenFL/Haxe tutorials. 🙂


Вот так вот

С 3 звёздами, но на первом месте в Amazon Casual Game Downloads.
Фиг их поймёшь почему, видимо цена в $0.99 слишком заманчива. 🙂
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И опять на первом месте в NOOK Apps, тоже фиг его знает почему.
А главное без всяких FGL’овских накруток 🙂
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Куда катится этот мир…


Amazon Mobile Ads ANE updated

I have updated Amazon Mobile Ads ANE with the latest version.
It now supports caching and showing of interstitial ads.
In August and September Amazon will provide “a Guaranteed $6 CPM on Interstitial Ads”.
More details here: https://developer.amazon.com/public/apis/earn/mobile-ads

ANE, including source code, could be found on GitHub:
Amazon Mobile Ads ANE

Good luck!


Dolly The Sheep, now everywhere!

I have released Dolly The Sheep game to other platforms, so now it is available at:

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.pozirk.dollythesheep
App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/dolly-the-sheep/id887047359
NOOK Store: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dolly-the-sheep-pozirk-games/1119715744
Samsung Apps: http://apps.samsung.com/mars/topApps/topAppsDetail.as?productId=000000863650
Amazon Store (PC): http://www.amazon.com/Pozirk-Games-Dolly-Sheep-Download/dp/B00KI19VYC/
App Store (Mac): https://itunes.apple.com/app/dolly-the-sheep/id890191173


Amazon Mobile Ads ANE

As I’m going to release free versions of Solitaire and Mahjong games on Amazon AppStore, I’ve decided to use Amazon Mobile Ads (+ AdMob of course, Amazon Mobile Ads only work in USA, I guess).
And, as these games are made with Adobe Air, I had made another ANE…
Here it is: Amazon Mobile Ads ANE, available on Github along with source code.





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