Pocket City 2 is my upcoming city-building game for mobile (and eventually PC). It is close to completion and I hope to launch it in the next couple of months. Working as a solo dev using Unity, there was a lot of experimentation involved in trying to find a way

I've been working on Pocket City 2 in Unity for several months now and have been really impressed with what you can find in the asset store. Here is a list of some of my favorite tools. I have tried many assets and these are the ones I

Or, how I made a mobile game as a web developer. This blog post explains the pipeline for Pocket City and how the game was created. Some players have asked how Pocket City is made behind the scenes. The diagram below shows the basic development flow: Game source code The

I recently released Pocket City for MacOS by packaging the game using Electron and Electron Packager (https://github.com/electron/electron-packager) Everything looked good and the game was approved for the Mac App Store. However, when I looked at the live listing, I noticed that the language listing included many

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.

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