End3r's Corner: personal blog of Andrzej Mazur.
The summary for November is not so good: fightnig with clients to get the money for my work, doing lots of unrelated stuff, fixing bugs, low interest of publishers in buying licenses for our games, no time for Wizard Quest development. At the beginning of 2015 I will have to revise my plans for the future.
After the successful visit at the ZTG Gamedev Convention I travelled to Budapest in Hungary to give two talks in one day at the Hungarian Web Conference. I was welcomed by the local community and enjoyed my time there.
The whole month was focused on the client work, closing the js13kGames competition and speaking at the conferences. It was a tough month – a lot of work and bug fixing, but nothing solid to show, almost no earnings and there are still so many things left to do.
I was invited to the ZTG conference a year ago, but Mozilla Festival event was already booked for the same date, so I said I'll try to visit them next year. I wasn't sure whether I'll be going to MozFest again this year, but I ended up traveling to Poznań instead of London.
The whole month passed so quickly, almost everything revolved around the js13kGames competition with which I still have a lot to do – print and ship the t-shirts, manage all the prizes etc. Here’s the detailed break-down of my work during September:
Most of the August activities revolved around the js13kGames competition. There was so much to be done and I’m not fully happy with the results. I didn’t have time to complete all of the plans I had, but overall I’m amazed by the growing community around the compo.
The js13kGames competition has started and with only a small delay I was able to finish Triskaidekaphobia, the game that promotes the competition. Triskaidekaphobia means the fear of the number thirteen, as for me it’s the perfect title for the game.
It’s time for the next Monthly Report, this time for July. Without any delays, let’s see what happened during that month.
The story behind Full Immersion is way shorter than those about Monser Wants Candy and Hungry Fridge, but I think it’s still worth writing a word or two.
It’s time for another monthly report – this time for June. I’m quite happy with that month as I finished some of the projects I was working on for way too long.
I wanted to complete a full year with One Game a Month challenge, but I failed miserably in January, so I’m just trying to finish some of the games I started half a year ago or so. The last time it was Monser Wants Candy – started in October 2013, finished in July 2014. Now’s the time for Hungry Fridge – started in November 2013, finished… right now.
I've started Gamedev.js Weekly half a year ago and now, when it reached 2000 subscribers I decided to move it to its own domain and polish the design a bit.
I was quite busy through May, but I can’t say I’m completely happy with the results. Here’s the summary of my work that month.
I’ve finally published my third game created with Robert, Monster Wants Candy. As usual, he came with the story and graphic design and I have coded everything up.
So here it is: HTML5 Game Development Insights book printed by Apress was published a few days ago and is already available at Amazon. I wrote only one chapter, but still it's the first printed material with me as an author, so I'm super happy about that.
It’s the beginning of May so it’s time for the next monthly report – April. I still think I’m developing games way too slow, but I’m trying to work on that.
I decided to close as many active projects as possible in March. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to close them all, only a few, but I can still focus on that in April. Let’s see how the March report look like:
I decided to have a monthly reports about all the Enclave-related activities. It won’t be an income report as this aspect is still a work-in-progress – I mean, most of my projects are free, open sourced and targeted to deliver value to the community, but I’ll have to work on making money out of it somehow. Anyway, here’s what happened in February:
Thanks to Mozilla I will be going to the Mobile World Congress (that will be held on February 24-27 in Barcelona) to demo our HTML5 game Captain Rogers on the Firefox OS devices. You can meet me at the Mozilla Press Event just before the start and then at the Mozilla exhibition booth through the conference.
The Mozilla Festival in which I participated was held during October 25th-27th last year, but I was quite busy lately and didn't have time to post on this blog regularly. I'm still amazed by the event, so decided to write it down even though it was more than 3 months ago.
Thanks to GitHub you can use their Pages to host any website without backend directly from your repository. HTML5 games are not different – it’s just HTML, CSS and JavaScript. If your games get a lot of traffic and you don’t want to pay too much for hosting, plus you can share the code as open source, then it’s the ideal solution for you.