Construct 2 Game Templates: Flash Sale

For a limited time you can grab a 17 Construct 2 game templates with CAPX project file included just for a 5$ (0.29$/Game).

Games included:

Buggy Sprint Optimized for mobile with touch controls. You goal is to swipe left or right to avoid obstacles. The game speed increases as you progress.

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Desert Sprint

Tap or click the screen to move your car up and avoid colliding with the rocks. There is three random daytime scenes and gameplay is similar to the Flappy Bird.

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Formula RacingClassic avoidance game inspired by 16-bit era classic arcade games with retro graphics. Swipe left of right to avoid collision with incoming formulas and try to reach the longest distance. Gameplay is similar to the Brick Racer an handheld games console game with black and white graphics.

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 Glow Tanks

Mobile game with fast paced action. You have to defend yourself from incoming enemies by swiping at the right direction. Try to stay alive as long as possible. The gameplay is similar to Fist of Fury iOS game.

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Iron Of Fury

Pure tanks action. Optimized for desktop and mobile. Swipe your tank into four directions to burn down incoming enemies. Game supports keyboard/gamepad and touch input.

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 Crabby Jump (Tiny Crab)

Fun arcade game with retro feel. You have to jump on sand and make as many moves as you can in 15 seconds. Tap on the water and it's game over. Single tap gameplay optimized for mobiles.

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Henny Jump

Another mobile game with same gameplay like Crabby Jump with fresh graphics and new theme.

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Henny Drift 

Row row your raft. Tap the screen to drift the raft up and try to swim trough the rocks

without crashing with your raft. Old good Flappy Bird gameplay.

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Henny Adventure

Another obstacles avoidance game with four rows to move. You need to collect as many eggs as possible. The game speed increases as you progress and there is a three different zones to play.

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Glowy Jump

Mobile game similar to Piano Tiles and Color Tap. You have to tap as many blocks as possible in 15 seconds. Tap on empty space and you will fall down.

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McBoat Racing               

Drive fast trough the sea and avoid incoming obstacles, works with touch controls on mobile devices.

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Vermin Desert Range

Target range shooter. Shot down moving  and hidden vermin in a desert town. Complete the funny mini game for extra points.

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 Penquin Sprint

One touch sort arcade game. Touch the screen to move from one checkpoint to another by avoiding angry yeti. Collect fish to unlock extra sliding wheel skins. 

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Forest Mayhem

 Arcade shooter like NES classic laser gun games. The goal of the game is to get the best score by catching bunnies in a one minute. You must avoid owls as these will decrease your points.

Game is targeted into younger players as gameplay is fairly easy.

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Santa Goes Home

 Christmas season is over and Santa got little bit dizzy. Lead him home by touching screen and avoiding garbage. The game speed increases after every point collected.

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Winter Moles HD

 Classic Whack-a-Mole arcade game clone with few extra improvements. Without moles you have to look for mini ninja hamsters. 

The game goal is to collect as much points as possible in a one minute. Mole with dynamite and grandma will decrease points if you hit them.

Game comes in HD 1280×720 size and automatically scales on all HTML5 compatible devices.
                                           
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Jennifer Dress-Up  

 A HTML5 Dress-Up game with Construct 2 project file for easy visual editing. Game features 60 different items in 5 categories and 3 different backdrops. Game is responsible and adjusts any resolution.

Now it also comes with native Android port and also Flash version. The Android port was made using cross-platform Pascal game engine + Android NDK. It comes with Eclipse project with integrated AdMob banner + interstitial ads. You can also import Eclipse project into Android Studio. It's easy to reskin all the game assets.

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Android Game Template: Desert Sprint

Desert Sprint

Tap to flap gameplay. Your goal to drift trough the rocks and try to don't crash. Controls are simple,just tap to go up and release to steer down. 

Get it on Google Play

 

Android Game Template: Formula Racing

 Classic Brick Games formula game in full color and 16-bit  style. You goal is to stay on the track as long possible and avoid collision with other opponent formulas. 

Two Android game for sale (includes source code)

There is a two games that you can get for as low as 1$ if you win the auction on Flippa 

 Iron Of Fury

 
Blast all enemies coming from from all directions and stay alive as long as possible. 
Game includes Construct 2 project, HTML5 game files and Intel XDK project with AdMob banner and interstitial ads. 

You will also receive app transfer. 

Download from Google Play 
Get a source code

Vermin Desert Range  

Another cross-platform HTML5 game packaged for Android using Intel XDK. You have a limited time to eliminated as many vermin as possible and avoid hitting villagers. You will find a hidden bonus items. There is also funny mini quest if you will find a key in the game. 








Download from Google Play
Get a source code

Asus MeMO Pad 172v Fix Charging Problems

I had a rapid drain issues and random charging notifications even no cable was connected. All the problems begin when charging tablet on laptop USB ports and mobile phone 1.0A charger and updating tablet to the latest version 

First you need to download ASUS MeMO ClearData SOP utility from official ASUS support website. You need to extract downloaded ZIP card into MicroSD card and boot your tablet with this card. 

Press Volume Up + Power if you stuck on Asus logo and don't see the blue menu screen. Use Volume keys to navigate and Power button to confirm clearing user data.

Also I noticed there is some problems with Google Play downloads on this tablets. Most apps just freeze on download. You can solve this by going to Settings-> Applications and clearing Download Manager, Google Play services and Google Play Store data. 

Next step is fully discharge and charge the tablet using 2.0A power charger. I am using Kruger & Matz Dual USB 2.1A charger and I am having a good battery life.

I wouldn't recommend some cheap Chinese chargers from eBay,DX,FocalPrice and etc. These may not have actual 2.0A voltage and may come without any overcharging protective circuit boards. And you may set your home on fire if you leave those cheap chargers overnight.

On standby I am getting  3-5 days without charging and in normal use it's a 4-5h hours for surfing the web, checking email and playing some small 2D games and lots of 3D games tends to freeze this tablet. 

How to root this tablet (ME172V) ? 

Use RootGenius . Download Link2SD and get rid of Asus bloatware. 

Porting Android games to Blackberry 10/Playbook

It's really not so easy to find a game engine that will work on Android and Blackberry Android virtual machine since Blackberry doesn't supports native code and GLES2.

Here is a few game engines that I tested so far:

Doesn't works because uses native code:
LibGDX
Rokon
e3roid
ZenGL a really easy Pascal game engine for Android. 
Flixel-Android ... old version without libGDX libraries may work.
ORX Engine
Gideros Mobile - didn't tested yet,but saw in Blackberry forums that nobody successfully ported any game with this engine yet. And I believe it uses libGDX too.
LGame aka Loon-Simple engine.
AndEngine the latest version use GLES2. The older version may work just fine,but for now I just successfully compiled the library. The examples I downloaded uses native code. There is already few games ported to Blackberry with this library so I will investigate into it later on.

Can successfully export BAR file,but doesn't works on Blackberry 10 simulator
ANGLE and easy to use engine,compiles just fine, but can't get any graphics on screen.
LGame 0.2.8S game example seems to work and it shows about 60 FPS. You will find the older version and example on the project download page. After a while I am getting message that app is not responding and I can't shoot any bullets due huge lag. 
Works really fast on Android phone.
PapayaGameSDK - didn't tested since couldn't compile any APK. It's really interesting engine with a ActionScript like programming interface.

Seems to work:

Candroid - an canvas game engine. Seems to work after removing alerts box in examples,but couldn't play a example Duck Hunt style game smoothly and after a while I got exception about not responding application. Probably it's so slow because uses software rendered instead of GPU and GLES1. 
To compile the examples with Eclipse you will need  a Subversion plugin and when you select File -> Import -> Checkout from SVN as URL type a 
http://candroidengine.googlecode.com/svn/ 
And Eclipse will automatically find a Android project.

For now I don't have any game engine for a smooth games development. 

Earn some green on Android

After looking  a few ways to monetize free Android apps I randomly found a some apps to make a some cash just by installing games on your Android phone. 

JunoWallet

REQUIRES ANDROID:

2.1 and up. 

With this app you can earn cents for installing apps,reffering friends and and liking some Facebook pages. It offers various gift cards like Starbucks,iTunes and eBay.

Use my invite code GK1073101 to get a instant 0.25$ into your account.

Gamer Rewards

REQUIRES ANDROID:

1.6 and up

This app is for gamers and you get a gold for installing apps,completing offers or buying some stuff. It takes a while to get a enough gold to redeem gifts cards and games. For gold you can get a Nintendo,XBox Live gifts cards some PC and Xbox games like Minecraft. Too bad it doesn't offer a Amazon Gift Cards.

Use my invite code 06U4IS2ZD20SCK and we both will get a 5 Gold coins bonus!

Get Paid To Play! (Make Money)

REQUIRES ANDROID:

2.0 and up

And the last app is quite the same as the first one just doesn't have a much offers. You will be earning a real cents and will be able to withdraw them into PayPal if you collect at least 5$ using it.

It offers to sign-up for offers by email,but you wouldn't get any cents for that so I always press "No Thanks!" 

Other app to try is  a Free Money Factory . It requires a Android 2.3 so I wasn't able to try it on a real device. Use a my invitation code 136702 and earn extra 600 points.

And if you are an apps developer you should definitely read a this blog for monetizing your apps. You might be also interested in  a MoMinis  Studio - a free game maker for mobile games. Have fun!

Android phone as 3G modem on Linux

I was quite sad when the Linux couldn't connect to internet using LG GT540 via USB cable. Since the phone runs Android 2.1 there is no option of WiFi Hotspot,but I found a working solution called Barnacle Wi-Fi Tether . Just open the market app and look for this app. Once you installed it open and press "Start" button. Optionally you can make a password for your WiFi connection in the settings menu. On many phones you need to enable Skip wpa_supplicant in Settings to actually create the ad-hoc network. In that case WEP will most likely not work.

Turn on WiFi on your computer and Linux should notice you about new availabe WiFi connection by default named "barnacle". Connect and start surfing the web.


I like that this app also displays the connection speed and dowload/uploaded data.
On Windows you need to check TCP/IP settings to make sure you are obtaining IP address automatically. It doesn't worked for me first time since I was forgot about static IP settings in WiFi connection since I was using WLAN. 


At no cost you now have the wireless hotspot probably working even with old Android 1.5 phones too :)


Here are some more detailed steps about WiFi tethering on rooted Android phones:

• Use your Android Phone as a Wireless Hotspot (Rooted Phones Only)
• Root your GT540 video
• One click rooting GT540 tutorial

List of Android Game Engines

Update 2012-12-23:
There is fresh list that I found on Intel developers blog and big thanks to Jason for a really detailed list
of Android Game Engines 


I was currently searching for these lately and made a quick list which engines are worth your attention.

LibGDX - Java game engine for mobile and desktop game engines. You can make both 3D and 2D games and it's cross-platform so you can make games for all major systems Linux,Windows and MacOS . More information on official page http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com . It's free for commercial use.

WiEngine - a powerful game engine based on Cocos2D. The main website is in Chinese,but examples should help you get started. You can also check the WiAd which helps to add in game advertisements and earn revenue. You need to register to download the SDK.

Papaya Game Engine - This one looks really easy and promising engine. You can also download additional SDKs for in-game payments and online score boards. Quote from original site:

The Papaya game Engine was written entirely in C and is much faster than Java based game engines. We've benchmarked our engine against the competition to make sure it outperforms them all.

Games can be written for Papaya game engine in Python or ActionScript, making it simple for any experienced engineer to start building games immediately.

AndEngine - Has a nice community forums and great tutorials section to get started. Licensed under LGPL and written in Java. Here is some features:

• Android-Optimized
• Android 1.6 Compatibility
• SplitScreen
• Network Multiplayer
• Live-Wallpapers
• MultiTouch
• Physics-Engine (Box2D)

You can look in Android market for a demo application. 

E3Droid - 2D OpenGL Game Engine. Supports LUA,JavaScript scripting and other goodies.

Here is some more engines to try:

Candroid    Cocos2D-Android  Android 2D Engine  ANGLE   Android 3D Engine  Rokon  Alien3D

PyGame for Android   Loon Simple  Doom Engine for Android  JGame  YoghurtGum  Android Flixel 

Catcake 

Just use the one that fits all your needs ;)

Android On VirtualBox

The official Android emulator based on QEMU is really slow and makes me depressed, when it comes to testing real apps. So for that reason I was quite away from testing games development on this OS. Even Windows Mobile 6.5 emulator booted much faster :) Luckily I randomly found a Android-x86 project which tries to port Android for native desktop computers and laptops. You can find some screenshots on their Picasa web album.

I was supper happy since after booting Android from virtual ISO image it loaded maybe 15x faster
than on standard emulator. I was testing older Android-x86 1.6-r2 version which doesn't worked on a real PC. 

Update:  I found another ISO for testing android-x86-eeepc-2.0.iso
which worked just fine on a real PC,but pretty slowly on my widescreen resolution. I decided
to keep using it on VirtualBox emulator only. Lets hope soon to have Android on native x86 architecture Netbooks and UMPC.

More info:

Looking Forward to Android $100 Laptops
and something random: Android powered Washing Machine :)

Running Android on VirtualBox on meh Linux Mint 9. Now let's have some fun with apps development :)