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.



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. 🙂


Rainbow Lines and etc.

Some news…

* I have released Rainbow Lines on Google Play.
I have decide to make two separate versions of the game: with HD graphics and without, otherwise game file size is too big.

* Updated AdMob ANE to comply with the latest AdMob/Google Mobile Ads/Google Play/AdSense changes. New ANE is much heavier and throws numerous warnings, but seems to work fine. 🙂
Old version is deprecated and “Google Play will stop accepting new or updated apps that use the old standalone Google Mobile Ads SDK v6.4.1 or lower. You must upgrade to the Google Play version of the Mobile Ads SDK by then.”
As usual, it is available on GitHub: https://github.com/pozirk/ANEAdMob

* Match Jong is somewhat in freezed state at the moment, but I have a playable demo, and my artist is ready to start preparing graphics. Going to start working on the game soon. 🙂

* Little by little, I’m releasing free version of All-in-One Mahjong 2 with updated AdMob ANE, of course.
All-in-One Mahjong 2 FREE is already available on Google Play.






Rainbow something…

Finally started new game, things move slowly as I’m still improving Mahjong and Solitaire, and really tired of those two.

Anyway, here is first screenshot from the game, without name yet…
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Yes, it looks like old well-known Lines, and it is Lines, but with some extra features and nice graphics.

No more Adobe AIR for development, I’ve tried it once, and don’t want to use it again for mobile.
This time I’m using Haxe, OpenFL and FlashDevelop.


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