I am repeatedly told marketing is more important than making a good game.

This is certainly true from what I am seeing with this. I made the age old mistake of believing you can put up a half decent game on the play store (because you see so much tosh charting highly) and it would get a decent user base with ease. Seems not. I am currently sitting at circa 30 downloads and every single one of those I worked for, I don't believe any are organic finds via the store itself.

Whats frustrating is while I am not foolish to believe Crazy Wings is anything special everybody I have forced to play it appreciated it and insisted on trying to better their score. I think there is no doubt a game needs hype to make people download it, without it... you don't have a cat in hells chance!

On the flappy bird clone thing, I have to admit that this grew from the question "how can I make flappy bird deeper and more fun?"

I really need to get the social sharing stuff working, I had to pull it from the release as my homebrew service I was running to ping sharing to FB wasn't quite working. My solution revolved around calling a URL with the browser object that then, from my server did the FB posting via a PHP script. If I can get that PHP script working beautifully smoothly Ill share it with the community as it currently seems the only way to do social sharing from a mobile device.

I have no shame

Laura is both my sister and wife...Don't judge!

Disclaimer: that's a joke.

Hello all. Well I have finally got a game out there. Its nothing too deep but its a fun little game that has seen only positive feedback in trails. You basically pilot a plane, touch and hold to pitch up, release to dive. The aim of the game is to fly into balloons to score points while avoiding oncoming air traffic. Its quite a challenging game and I would really appreciate anybody who wants to check it out.

The lite version is available here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.jabba.crazywings&hl=en_GB

Thanks all!

Thanks Jasper I really appreciate the effort you went to there! I'll have a go through your example and take it from there. *thumbs up*

Hi all,

I have an object that I can drag around the screen. I have set its behavior to be bound to the layout and that stops it leaving which is great. My issue is part of my layout contains a hud and I wanted the same kind of restriction to stop it being dragged over that.

I have tried putting a transparent sprite there as a wall and playing with various different parameters but that doesn't seem to help. Any pointers would be amazing.

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