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Mobile Gaming without Microtransactions - Pocket City's Monetization Strategy

Mobile Gaming without Microtransactions - Pocket City's Monetization Strategy

The dominant business model for mobile games is the Freemium strategy, where the app is free but designed to encourage IAPs (in-app purchases), which make the bulk of the game's revenue. However, a lot of players are getting tired of this model. > Please...please...PLEASE....no microtransactions

Creating 3D Low Poly Art With 2D Shapes in Photoshop (Workflow Tutorial)

Creating 3D Low Poly Art With 2D Shapes in Photoshop (Workflow Tutorial)

Low poly is a great art style for games. It can look great and doesn't require a lot of details. Here's how I create low poly building art in Photoshop. Usually 3D software is usually used to create low poly assets, but for 2D games, we

5 Reasons to Use DOM Instead of Canvas for UI in HTML5 Games

Game Development

5 Reasons to Use DOM Instead of Canvas for UI in HTML5 Games

Drawing to canvas is the primary way of rendering content in HTML5 games, as it beats DOM manipulation out of the water for performance. However, I've found that the DOM still has a very useful place in modern HTML5 games - the UI. Here's why: 1.

Cheating at z-depth sprite sorting for draw order

Game Development

Cheating at z-depth sprite sorting for draw order

When implementing buildings in Pocket City, I discovered that ordering buildings was easy - just sort the z-index using the buildings's Y position whenever the buildings changed, then cache the buildings as a bitmap (combines a group of sprites into a single static sprite in Phaser). However, when

Early Alpha Gameplay Clip

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Early Alpha Gameplay Clip

Here is an early look at Pocket City. As you can see, we have already implemented zone construction, road construction, camera movement, development animations, power system, water system, pedestrians, vehicle traffic (kind of), and more! Stay tuned for more updates on Pocket City! Update: A newer video, which was posted

Isometric City Art - First Look

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Isometric City Art - First Look

Pocket City is an upcoming city building game for iOS, Android, and PC. In Pocket City, you will designate specific zones to be used to construct different types of buildings: Residential, Commercial, and Industrial. Here are some early pieces of art assets created for those zones. They are isometric 2D