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A year as a full time indie: #business advice for the ones starting.
▻https://hackernoon.com/a-year-as-a-full-time-indie-business-advice-for-the-ones-starting-64d8ba

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My journey as an entrepreneur began a year ago. In this time I have learned some lessons that I’d like to share with you.When you read stories about indie developers you usually see:Postmortems of games: What went wrong, what went right, and some lessons learned on the way.Disaster stories: people that tried and fail miserably, run out of money after 6 months, etc.Very successful stories: Minecraft, Stardew Valley, etc.But usually not so many people tell the story from the point of view of the business. After a year running my indie studio I’ve also noticed that a lot of people really know how to make a game (and do it very well!) but don’t know the basics of the business. And it is sad because I see a lot of talented people that fail because they didn’t take in account the basic business (...)

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How to Build Realtime Updating Leaderboards in #unity
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-to-build-realtime-updating-leaderboards-in-unity-1f30545af17a?source

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Why Leaderboards?Leaderboards are one of the oldest social features in video games that are used to increase the level of competition amongst players. Global scoreboards generate longer gameplay times and appeal to the majority of player segments. In addition, leaderboards help increase player engagement and retention by motivating them to achieve a higher rank. If a player slips down in the ranks, they will usually try to re-assert their position at the top.You can build leaderboards that update in realtime by using #pubnub. Realtime scorekeeping is important since it gives users instant feedback which increases gamer satisfaction.Setting Up UnityTo start out, check out my GitHub and clone/download the repo. If you don’t already have Unity installed, install it here. The repo contains an (...)

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How to implement 2D isometric view in Unity
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Our Pushy & Pully game has some isometric view in place. If you still don’t know the game let me show you an screenshot:Main game area (not the final sprites)As you can see the view is something in between top down and with a certain angle. More like a front isometric camera. But Unity for 2D only has only a “normal” ortogonal camera. There’s no way (that I know) that you can indicate to the camera that what you want is an isometric. So we had to fix this in code.How drawing objects workFirst thing to understand is that we generate the level at runtime after reading the level definition from a file. So we have to draw every object and the order matters. As a general rule in 2D games the last object you draw will be visible on top of the previous ones.The Unity way: layersIn Unity you can (...)

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