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"Game Programming Patterns" has been of huge help throughout my career and it's always my go to recommendation for new game programmers and reading your comment makes me feel even more grateful that you made the effort of writing it, thanks for writing such a great book!

This exact thing happened to me too. They claimed click fraud and terminated my account.

It was 10 years ago, and I have tried to make an appeal about it but always with the same response.

For what I see on the Showcase games, they are canvas, but I really hope it supports webgl also, looks like an interesting library.

I don't know about the resources part, but the installation should be easy using Bitnami

http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab

Good post!

I specially liked the "Why should people bother playing the game I make?" part. I keep making myself this question over and over again, and your answer really clicked with me.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one, the whole concept looks really interesting, but for a walkthrough, the Cat.random thing is kind of confusing.

AFAIK it only does NaCl besides their Web Player.

I think they're just referring to the subcategory in the Play Store, but yeah, almost any mobile game could be labeled as Casual.

That would be awesome if you do it!

Sorry, that blog it is not mine, I just stumbled upon the post and thought it was interesting, didn't know it wasn't the original source.

This is really bad news for latin american developers, as far as I know, Argentina was one of the few latin american countries that were able to sell in the Play Store and now it's gone. It kind of kills my hope that they may eventually give support to my country.

I know I can establish an LLC in US to fix this, but it is something that we would rather not to do. It is kind of a bummer that Google makes it so difficult to do business in certain countries.

Could this mean that could expand the number of countries that were supported by checkout?

I really hope so, not being able to sell in the Play Store/Chrome Web Store is something we've been looking for a while.

I agree with you, I'm not saying that the video can be low quality because it doesn't matter, just that the content is far more important to them, but yeah, I think is better if you have a proper camera and mic. Wouldn't leave a nice impression if someone submit a video shooted with their phone.

I think he was talking about what the founders say in the video, not the quality of the video itself.

This looks good, but one of the things that could stop us from using it, is Paypal, we can't withdraw money from Paypal where we are located.

How many of you are in the team? The games looks very polished, amazing you made it in just 6 months.

Great design, very simple yet entertaining. If I may ask, how much time did you spend making it?

This is exactly how I feel, Im in Guatemala, where we don't have much access to VC funds either.

A year has passed since we started, and we still don't have a steady income, but it is worth it, totally worth it, when I realize that I am doing exactly what I want to do, even if the odds are against me, I know I have to keep trying.

Thanks for sharing the list of all the games, and especially thanks for putting us on the 16th, we have received a lot of feedback since the contest launch and would love to hear yours, we are implementing several changes in the game play, it'll become faster and will have more levels in a few weeks.

Also we are preparing the lunch for the android version :)

That was my point, it might not have the best content on the internet,but it clearly has a huge user base, and a very active one. I don't get why it wouldn't be a good investment decision.

Why? I know that 9gag is not the most serious business out there, but don't you think it could be a viable and sustainable business?

Thanks for the reference, I'm going to pass it to them, and yeah, there is still plenty of room in the AR worlds, but they are really dissapointed with this as they were pitching their game as "A minecraft but in the real world".

They are now looking for an alternative, I hope they find one.

I have a group of friends that were thinking about doing something similar, unfortunately for them, they were just starting to shape the idea, while Mojang seems very ahead in development.

Thanks for mentioning the book, after reading your comment I looked for the book, and it looks pretty good, probably the next book I'm going to buy. Thanks!

That is a very nice view.

I have always wanted to visit Japan, but haven't find the time and the money to do it, but I hope I'll someday.

Thanks for the Shrine suggestion! It really looks very interesting.

I'm also from Guatemala, and yeah, it's really nice to see the word Quetzal in something as big as an Ubuntu version name.

I was looking for exactly something like this, really nice interface.

I think the pokeball is because of the name of the service, there was this character in Pokemon called Prof. Oak.

I thought the same thing, but also, the "research" label could be just a safety net in case it doesn't turn out very well.