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Gadgets and tools that will save you time or make your development life easier and even increase your productivity! Lets face it, developing is a lot of hard work, with lots of hours involved. You're spending days coding and with all that hard work, there are definitely times you've probably said "There's gotta be a better way!" Well there is no MAGIC BULLET but these gadgets and tools will make your dev life easier and in some cases save you hours! (more…)

In this article I go over the things I've learned after years of getting help with service providers worldwide! From Art to assets to full out developers, here are 6 tips that I learnt along the way! (more…)

Building software can be an ongoing challenge, but how do you setup your software environment in order to make sure that clients get the best experience? This article takes a sneak peak into the world of Software Stability! (more…)

In this short article we are going to go over all the various mobile markets you can put your game or app into. There are many and most of them are Android based. Each market has a different strategy which we will go over in this article. (more…)

Rarely do we discuss the mental and physical challenges that come with development...lets open up this conversation now with 7 ways you can have a more balanced Development Life! It's no secret, many of us develop so much and work so hard that we end up DREAMING in code! As a person who's burnt out many times (And yes even landed myself into the Hospital on occasion from it), I've learnt that it is NEVER worth putting your health at risk PERIOD! (more…)

In this article I will walk through how to interact with your 3D Game objects using your mouse. Yes I'm sure you've gone through the tutorials and sometimes it can be confusing just to get things working. My goal in this article is to lay out all the basics of mouse interaction so you can get the job done and continue working on your awesome game! (more…)

Here are 7 optimization and speed tricks and tools that I've used over the years that have helped me to increase my FPS (Frames Per Second) and decrease draw calls as well as final file sizes. At times, creating games and apps can be frustrating, none so frustrating as when you are trying to launch onto a mobile device or limited device only to have everything slow to a crawl. (more…)

I am going to walk you through how to setup git command line on a new unity project :) If you're like me, an indie developer, who for years never really had a use for git until finally I just had to 'git' it done (such a geek joke)...anyways, you may be wondering WHY even use git, how can it help me out and finally how do I set it up? (more…)

We are so caught up in a "Build Build Build" world that we tend to forget the easiest and most cost effective way of testing out an idea...PAPER TESTING!! How often do you paper test an idea? Paper testing...it is the cheapest and most cost effective way to test out ideas, yet how often do we as developers do this? (more…)

These App Store Optimization T.R.I.C.K.S Will Give Your Users A Better Experience! It's no secret, ASO is no longer what it use to be now as we reach the end of 2018 and going into the future. There was a time where a simple keyword could rank you higher. Now however these methodologies are simply PART of the overall Marketing and Advertising strategies you should use on your Mobile Apps and Games. (more…)