May 2022

Reflex – Dev Diary 84 – Amazon Appstore

May 20, 2022

Slow going at Amazon App HQ, but the game is finally available for Amazon Fire tablets (Fire OS 6+).

Reflex – Dev Diary 83 – Android Release

May 9, 2022

Finally, after a week or so of battling it out with the Google Cloud verification team Reflex is available on the Google Play store. The Android version is identical visually to the Windows version except you play by tapping the game board and dragging the screen around with your finger. The Android version also supports… [Read More]

Reflex – Dev Diary 82

May 5, 2022

So, the release process of Reflex on Google Play didn’t go as planned. It appears that there was a credential miss-match and that prevents the game from starting everywhere except on my devices – which isn’t helpful. While I resolve the issue I have unpublished the game from the store. Please bear with me; this… [Read More]

Reflex – Dev Diary 81

May 4, 2022

Just a quick update. The Amazon Fire release is taking longer than expected to get through its review process. I will post again when it is available on the Amazon App Store. The Google Play version is now available but the achievements and other play service features aren’t currently working. I’m looking into the cause.

Reflex – Dev Diary 80

May 1, 2022

The time is almost here. The Android (Android 7+) and Amazon Fire (Fire OS 6+) versions of Reflex will hopefully be released tomorrow (2nd May 2022). For full details and links to the two stores please visit the Reflex page.

Project 2 – Dev Diary 2

Over the last 2 weeks I’ve been doing a lot of research and experiments for a potential new game. That last developer diary focused on a procedural map generator. This time I’ve been experimenting with skeletal animations for 2D characters. The process involved taking a sketch of my player character and creating a vector version… [Read More]