New Year, New Prospects: A New Blog Series About Indie Game Development

Hey everyone, so it’s a new year (Yes late I know  ), a fresh slate for us developers to show our best in 2014. I personally am a senior in highschool and I’ve been developing games for about a year and half now and think the time has come for me to bring some of my acquired knowledge into play and start helping out fellow developers more. For this reason I’m starting a new blog series on my website which will feature tutorials on some of the “quirky” and confusing topics like push notifications and app Facebook integration!

I also remember when I just started developing apps I was extremely curious about sales projections, ad revenue, in-app purchase success rates… the whole lot. Well I hope to help out other starting developers by sharing the performance of my apps and discuss the failures and successes of some of my marketing strategies.

I’m far from a famous developer, but most of us indies aren’t so I hope that with this blog I’ll be able to share my perspective of a young aspiring developer! I’m not much of a writer and this is my first attempt at starting a blog series so please do forgive any mistakes!

Currently I’m planning on releasing an in-depth push notification tutorial within 2 to 3 weeks covering 3rd party push services like Parse, developing your own service (which I have), client integration, and potential benefits. Please tell me if you’re interested I would really love knowing I had an interested audience!

You can find the blog post here: http://intoitgames.com/blog/2014/01/19/new-year-new-prospects-a-new-blog-series-about-indie-game-development/

Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Hi, you get all my respect for doing this at this young age and wish you all the luck, fun and success you can get

Thanks @atanas!

I have a high school senior in my home and personally know what a tough year it is. Congratulations on being able to achieve all this and find the time to share your experience with others as well despite all the pressure. Best of luck with your college applications and the rest of your senior year. Will be looking out for your great news. 

Published first part of push notifications tutorial!

Part one covers GCM and APNS push providers like Parse, Urban Airship, and Open Source Push Servers. Part two will be arriving soon and will include code examples on how to integrate with Corona SDK!

http://intoitgames.com/blog/2014/01/26/tutorial-push-notifications-with-gideros-studio-and-corona-sdk-part-1/

I’m not much of a writer so I’m extremely open to suggestions on my writing!

Hi, you get all my respect for doing this at this young age and wish you all the luck, fun and success you can get

Thanks @atanas!

I have a high school senior in my home and personally know what a tough year it is. Congratulations on being able to achieve all this and find the time to share your experience with others as well despite all the pressure. Best of luck with your college applications and the rest of your senior year. Will be looking out for your great news. 

Published first part of push notifications tutorial!

Part one covers GCM and APNS push providers like Parse, Urban Airship, and Open Source Push Servers. Part two will be arriving soon and will include code examples on how to integrate with Corona SDK!

http://intoitgames.com/blog/2014/01/26/tutorial-push-notifications-with-gideros-studio-and-corona-sdk-part-1/

I’m not much of a writer so I’m extremely open to suggestions on my writing!