babuskov

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931.
Marketing your Android game - start early(bigosaur.com)
1 points by babuskov 13y ago|0 comments
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by babuskov 13y ago
Unless approximately the same number of people read the official company blog. Which shouldn't be far from truth.
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by babuskov 13y ago
It seems to me that the first "mother" on line 17 should be changed to "friend".
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Collection of interesting 404 pages(blog.templatemonster.com)
1 points by babuskov 13y ago|0 comments
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by babuskov 13y ago
McDonald's already has a green logo variant: https://www.google.com/search?q=mcdonald's+green+logo
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Kickstarter pledger scammed multiple projects for rewards(comicsbeat.com)
107 points by babuskov 13y ago|59 comments
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by babuskov 13y ago
Free sample is not really a sample at all. It's just a hook, an introduction. I would be willing to buy this if there was a real sample, even one page.
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Apple published a report on government data requests(theguardian.com)
1 points by babuskov 13y ago|0 comments
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by babuskov 13y ago
The main reason I'm using GMail is that it's available everywhere for free - both in money and my time. However, I like your project and it would be nice to have an alternative if I decide one day that I value my privacy more.
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by babuskov 13y ago
Horde seems to be full of bugs regarding security. Several of my friends run it on their servers and had the server compromized. Looking at web server logs, the backdoor was always some part of Horde/Imp web interface. They have all mo
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by babuskov 13y ago
InnoDB and MVCC in Postgres are almost indentical, so it's all up to the programmer. Well, except for one difference. InnoDB will allow you refer to tables not controlled by the InnoDB table handler, whereas PG does not have such poten
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by babuskov 13y ago
Yup, looks like InnoDB. I find MyISAM locking to work just fine out-of-the-box. Also, adding proper indexes is one of the basic database tasks to do if you want any reasonable performance. I'm often adjusting tables' structure out
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by babuskov 13y ago
I don't understand this. You have so much traffic that you need CloudFront, but cannot earn enough to spare $600/mo? What kind of startup is it? From what I could tell talking with some people so far, is that they only think the
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Anti-rape panties(indiegogo.com)
1 points by babuskov 13y ago|0 comments
945.
by babuskov 13y ago
I'd really like to see Yii framework included in the test as they claim to only load what's needed.
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by babuskov 13y ago
PHP and node.js neck to neck? I'd really like to see the chart showing RAM usage for these tests.
947.
by babuskov 13y ago
Actually, the reload is added to make sure you stop the shooting ;) But, I also noticed that on tablets you would easily use both hands: one to shoot, other to reload, esp. on 10-inch tablet, where the distance is too great. I guess I'
948.
by babuskov 13y ago
Oh well. Thanks for down-voting someone who was brave enough to make their stats public. :( I guess no one is interested in real user engagement figures and I should remove the access.
949.
by babuskov 13y ago
Do you have any stats on the downloads or user engagement? I just released my game two days ago, and here are the live stats: http://slagalica.tv/drones.php Can you compare yours to this? Am I doing any good? Thanks.
950.
by babuskov 13y ago
I decided to make the stats public: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6604659
951.
by babuskov 13y ago
A few days ago I posted about my Android game made in 23 days, and feedback has been great: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6594521 During development I posted updates on regular basis to LudumDare and Java-gaming foru
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Live user stats for my Android game. Thank you HN.(slagalica.tv)
4 points by babuskov 13y ago|1 comments
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by babuskov 13y ago
Before each boss shows up, a short message shows up for about 2-3 seconds, telling the player what that boss is about. In this case, it says: Grows When Shot. The only thing is that this is not the final boss. This is the boss on level 70.
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by babuskov 13y ago
Sure. Here it is: http://bigosaur.com/blog/droneinvaders15.apk I hope you'll be able to run it.
955.
by babuskov 13y ago
I used Inkscape for various icons (like shield, etc.) and Gimp for all the rest.
956.
by babuskov 13y ago
I developed most of the game on SGS2 which has 480x800 resolution which covers more than 70% of the market (depending on whose stats you look at). Then I tested on Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets, and bunch of phones that friends have and I&#x
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by babuskov 13y ago
I'll plan to post download counts and monetization figures on my blog once a week. And I'll also detail what I do for marketing.
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by babuskov 13y ago
Thanks for such detailed feedback. Wave 70 is not a bug. The trick is in the Grows When Shot description. This boss gains energy when shot, but loses when he releases a drone. You really shouldn't shoot at it at all, just destroy its m
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by babuskov 13y ago
Yes. It also served as an incentive to keep me going. I did not want to have an empty day without making any progress, especially as some people were reading the blog from the start and I did not want to lose their attention by skipping.
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by babuskov 13y ago
Actually, I did look into cocos because RoboVM is still not cosidered proven and I plan to develop or port to iOS at some point. The main problem is googlability (did I just invent a word there?) of cocos stuff. Google is indexing all the o

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