android

Game Maker Studio Android Native Extension – Close Game Popup

Hello there! Handling the Back Button within your game is really important. Google offers its navigation guidelines, for giving the users always the same experience. Check them here: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigation.html Regarding the back button, it should close any window, message or popup, and it should bring the navigation back until the main menu. Once there, by […]

[Tutorial] Creating a simple Game Maker Studio native Android extension for implementing Batch unlocking system

Hello there! I’m creating this tutorial because in the last days I needed to implement the Batch automatic unlocking system (see https://batch.com/) into my last Android game made with Game Maker: Alpaca Jump, available on Google Play for free, here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mattiafortunati.alpacajump.free If you don’t know it, Batch is a great tool for scheduling and managing […]

Game Maker Studio Android Native extension – Log to Console

Hello there! Logging some message for debugging purposes is always an important matter. Game Maker Studio offers many ways to do so, as you can see here: http://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/debugging/index.html like for example, the classic: show_debug_message(message) However, for some strange reason, while developing Alpaca Jump, I needed to log my custom message directly into the Android Logcat, […]

Alpaca Jump – releasing today, on Google Play! For FREE!

Hello there, much time has passed since the last blog post, but we did not stop in making games, we did not stop at all 🙂 We studied and learned very much from Kid Aviator “adventure” , and we spent also much time monitoring game stores trends and promotion possibilities for our future games. We […]

Kid Aviator FREE version!

Hello everybody! Kid Aviator’s critics are being great and useful, and as you could see with the last game update, we are improving the game thanks to these feedbacks! However, the downloads numbers are low, very low. That’s probably because the paid model we chose for our game is outdated and not really challenging for […]

Launching today on iTunes and Google Play!

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages: Today we proudly announce the release of the original endless flyer—Kid Aviator! From today on, Kid Aviator will be available on iTunes and Google Play—on iPhone, iPad, iPod and all Android smartphones and tablets! Get Kid Aviator now, from the App Store or Google Play!       […]

Kid Aviator Open Beta starts today!

Hi, there! After more than a year of work, my new game Kid Aviator is feature complete and ready to be tested by real players! During this year, Claudia (as visual artist) and I did our best to create the prettiest and most charming game we could! We worked hard and we tired ourselves to the […]