Well it comes down to dopamine on one level and fullfillment if possible. If our users can experience something pleasurable first, then we have a successful product. REGARDLESS of immediate monetary profits.
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I’ve been doing some research recently in Machine Learning. Resurrecting my previous “VertoPellis” project and cleaning up the source data we fed the system. Upon building the voice, we fed it speeches which had echos and high ambient noises.
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I’ve been fixing many platform bugs that are related to appstore owners (Apple, Sony, Nintendo etc.) recently…
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I’ve spent the better part of the day trying various solutions to best implement the gyroscope control scheme in RunawayJRider…
I’ve had a few experiences with various gyroscopes throughout the years but steering….. hmmmm that’s a tricky one. At least not from the onset… actually let me rephrase… my first instinct was the eventual solution. Getting the forces applied on the device and using them to increment/decrement an angle value… but that seemed too easy.
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We finally enabled multiple control schemes!
Of the three most requested control schemes by our players are:
RunawayJRider is ever evolving and this iteration we’re taking it to a more expansive territory. First thing in order is to increase the play area, namely width of the lanes. The task was supposed to be manual in nature, but as a good lazy programmer, I decided to tag the elements furthest from the center as “boundary” which are dynamically distanced through a variable. This has the benefit of dynamically controlling the play area. We use a dictionary type variable on objects so we can scale as per requirements without too much over engineering.
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That was going to be a tweet, but then I realized I had a tad more than 140 characters to express it 🙂
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only 19 days before it becomes habit?
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I’m going to get back to daily blogging (cross my fingers here… hard!)
The game has taken a huge improvement boost after hiring some art consultants and other “product polishers” 🙂
That being said, there’s much more work to be done in terms of improving gameplay! More game mechanics and making sure they’re balanced in order to keep the dopamine flow at an optimum level 😉
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Here is the main tip…..
There’s a great trend happening in the industry these days and that is the acceptance of open-source!
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