How to get started and open games independently

I am an auditor and a master developer for iOS independent game development. To be honest, I made a small game from White Paper to the team we led, it took 10 months... the following is a long microblog I wrote. It is called "Dream digging journey-a group of cainiao game Dreams". I hope it will help you.


A dream journey, a group of cainiao game dreams

In September 3, our independent game "dream trip" went live at the Apple store, a mining-themed casual game. Two days later, I climbed to the free category list in China, and was lucky enough to go to Apple's top recommendation. This encouragement was very exciting for us.

Our team is composed of four people. I am responsible for planning, my wife is a planning + artist, and I have another program, one promotion, and one foreign aid painter. We are all interested in playing games in our spare time. Almost all of them are new users. For example, I am an audit project manager and what is audit? In short, it is just a business trip, overtime, financial computing, and games.

You may want to ask, can a group of novice fish games be recommended for excellent products? Well, there may be luck, but there are also occasional necessity. Although we are a miscellaneous fish, we should at least carry our heads (* ω *)

Share the following feelings:

1. stupid: We spent two months looking for programmers for self-funding. The game development lasted for 10 months due to various difficulties. When we were pregnant in October, without the support of dumb, "Dream digging" may have left empty. Many of our friends said that it would be good if we could do it. In fact, "Dream digging" not only brings us the feeling of completion, but also sets up a stable team.

2. Bold design: at the beginning of the planning, we did not follow suit, but tried to make the game original. We extracted several keywords as the design axis: mining, leisure, hand-drawn pictures, for female and children. It is very important to make a game that we are good at and feasible, because LV1 is short in blood slot (capital), and once a group is destroyed, it is the pattern of over. In land mining games, our dream journey is refreshing. Although it is a small game, it brings a new experience to players, of course, there are also many shortcomings that make gamers speak out)

3. Self-Promotion: We launched all our friends and family to download the game, posted posts on Weibo and other social platforms, and gave strong forwarding support! Thank you! In the United States without any publicity, "Dream mining" is also on the excellent recommendation page. I was shocked by my friends and I. In addition, we found that more than 20 players from Saudi Arabia downloaded the game on the first day, probably because they are not keen on dig oil (￣ O)

4. stick to perfection: the "dream journey" ranking began to decline in a week later, and now it has more than 100 people. Our ranking and comments on games are the most important, we have gained a lot of encouragement and criticism over the past week and found many bugs. To keep the game ranking, we must constantly maintain and improve the game. We will try to make "Dream digging" more fun. In the next game, we will also be so stupid.

I have revealed my experience in building an independent game team:

I am a post-80s Game Fan. When I was a child, I drooped my mouth and watched "soft". I stole "xianjian" from an Internet cafe. In order to play some games, I didn't miss my mother's "tianxianglong flash ", those years are filled with carefree happiness. Later, I read McGonigal's "game changes the world" and found that games are also a learning. People like games not because the real world is not perfect. What we are looking for may be the happiness of our childhood: there are rewards without too many restrictions. If we do well, it's no big deal if we fail, and our friends are taking risks everywhere... Life is like colorful colored glaze, which is also the origin of our team name liuli studio.

As the fragmentation tide of mobile games came, people began to look at electronic games again, as if they had just played soul Douro in early 1990s. At that moment, they wanted to do something more and more intense, the whimsical hidden attribute in the body was also ignited. I decided to enable the team-up mode.

The first brave person who received the invitation from the team was the wife of the old lady. She was happy to accept the invitation. In her words, the old lady was a game guru for many years, planning interesting things can save me? (Wife: No! I am not so rude, okay !)

Afterwards, the promotion staff and the painter became a member of the team. But key programmers have never been lost.

At that time, I prayed to God every day to give us a strong IOS engineering lion, but the programmers all expressed no interest in teaming up with the LV1 cainiao, it was hard to find a program, and we took the trouble halfway. Our enthusiasm instantly fell to the freezing point. (That time was dark and dark. The game was planned from the time when my wife had a big belly to the time when the child was born, and my wife was not completed, so she was anxious, but she could only be stranded for the time being)

Finally, we met Anye, and he promised to help us! At that moment, I saw a cainiao team finally formed. Although the sparrow was a little dirty, my wife and I played group control and auxiliary roles. The promotion lie in the wild ganker, and the original picture was a single AP, program Anye is the downstream ADC... (What is it like to instantly traverse to LOL !)

If you are an RPG player in your life, you can write this guide to learn about the monsters (Development issues) We met on this road. There are many ways to solve the problem: internal discussions, searching for information, finding tutorials, and writing documents, ask a friend, ask a friend of a friend, ask a friend of a friend, try all sorts of strange things, get a dry eye, pull a hair, drop a keyboard, hit a wall (hello, please do not let it go !).

Independence means doing everything by yourself.

I found that I was quite happy along the way and learned a lot. The happiest thing was not the time when I went online and climbed the rankings, the happiest thing is to plan the game time with her wife. Although she suffered a lot from her "tianxianglong flash" in the debate ". (How self-abuse do you have. =)

It was another late night, with more than 20 changes in "journey to dream", and new game characters and plot settings also started, the promotion is also making unremitting efforts to let more people know about our game, and the road is long. Thanks to "Dream digging", it is the beginning of our dream. There is no fully evolved non-cainiao in the world, and we will always be on the road to exploring our dreams.