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.


All-in-One Mahjong for Windows


After All-in-One Solitaire for Windows, it’s time for All-in-One Mahjong.

The process of releasing the game was the same – a bit annoying but pretty straightforward.
The game was approved in one day, looks like not too many developers release games/updates at the beginning of January. 🙂

So, free version for Windows 10/11 is out there.
All-in-One Mahjong for Windows


All-in-One Solitaire for Windows


Finally, I was able to release a free version of the All-in-One Solitaire game on the Windows Store.
I had a paid version before, a Javascript UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app, which was an OpenFL HTML5 app integrated into the Visual Studio project.
But then starting VS2019 Microsoft dropped support for Javascript UWP projects and… Free version didn’t happen. After some time I removed even paid version because it was getting harder to update it.

Microsoft pushed Javascript developers (at least me) to make PWA (Progressive Web App), which in a nutshell is just a cached website that you open in a slightly modified browser window.
I guess Google started it first with their ChromeOS, all apps are just web applications (websites). It seems like MS is moving in the same direction.
So far, the availability of decent software for ChromeOS is depressing. I use a Chromebook while traveling because it is small, lite, and works 10 hours on a single charge, but finding even a good email client was a problem. Thanks to Android support, I’ve downloaded one from Google Play, but using the “made for touch screen” app on a no-touch screen is an adventure. 🙂

Ok, back to All-in-One Solitaire.
Free version (instead of paid one) is available for Windows 10/11 here:
All-in-One Solitaire for Windows


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…


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



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