Diamonds - Balls of Bounciness
I used to love a little game called Diamonds.
Do any of you remember it?
Anyway, a while back when Unity UI came out I wanted to play around so I figured this would be a good project to remake over a few days.
Here is what mine looks like with some terribly remade graphics :P
These gifs are 20MB each, so I'm not going to embed them.
Look here
And here.
I also used it as an opportunity to test out http://www.gameanalytics.com/ by putting leaderboards in it. So each level gets tracked, and you can hit the "leaderboard" button on the main screen to see if you have dropped ranking in any level.
It ended up being fairly polished (well, as polished as a week or so can get), so I published it.
I'm not 100% sure how open/against you guys are to remakes - so I think that is something worth bringing up here. What are your thoughts on people publishing remakes? While it can probably be a good tool for learning, where is the line between good-spirited fun and "blatantly copying someone elses work and profiting"? In this case I'm not making any money, but I've gained a Google Play store account with a few good reviews which could be considered a net gain I guess.
On a semi-related note, when I signed up for my Play store account I did a search for "roguecode" and was surprised to see an app called "Relaxify" coming up (the search no longer works - they must have removed a tag or something?), which is the name of an app I have on Windows Phone. Someone actually copied the [crappy] name, and even the description from my WP game. Pretty bizarre. I don't really see what they would gain out of it. Mine has a few hundred thousand downloads, but it most definitely isn't particularly special or "known". Here is their game. And here is my one on WP.
To be clear, I'm not really upset about this. They didn't copy the actual game too much, and even if they did, it was written in a few hours and is far from unique. I'm just confused.
Anyway, if you want to try it out:
Android
Windows Phone
Do any of you remember it?
Anyway, a while back when Unity UI came out I wanted to play around so I figured this would be a good project to remake over a few days.
Here is what mine looks like with some terribly remade graphics :P
These gifs are 20MB each, so I'm not going to embed them.
Look here
And here.
I also used it as an opportunity to test out http://www.gameanalytics.com/ by putting leaderboards in it. So each level gets tracked, and you can hit the "leaderboard" button on the main screen to see if you have dropped ranking in any level.
It ended up being fairly polished (well, as polished as a week or so can get), so I published it.
I'm not 100% sure how open/against you guys are to remakes - so I think that is something worth bringing up here. What are your thoughts on people publishing remakes? While it can probably be a good tool for learning, where is the line between good-spirited fun and "blatantly copying someone elses work and profiting"? In this case I'm not making any money, but I've gained a Google Play store account with a few good reviews which could be considered a net gain I guess.
On a semi-related note, when I signed up for my Play store account I did a search for "roguecode" and was surprised to see an app called "Relaxify" coming up (the search no longer works - they must have removed a tag or something?), which is the name of an app I have on Windows Phone. Someone actually copied the [crappy] name, and even the description from my WP game. Pretty bizarre. I don't really see what they would gain out of it. Mine has a few hundred thousand downloads, but it most definitely isn't particularly special or "known". Here is their game. And here is my one on WP.
To be clear, I'm not really upset about this. They didn't copy the actual game too much, and even if they did, it was written in a few hours and is far from unique. I'm just confused.
Anyway, if you want to try it out:
Android
Windows Phone