braco_alva
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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!
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braco_alva on Monday March 14, 2022 @03:57PM
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braco_alva on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:57AM
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braco_alva on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:02PM
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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.
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braco_alva on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:50AM
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braco_alva on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @10:49AM
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braco_alva on Sunday December 29, 2013 @10:18PM
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For what I see on the Showcase games, they are canvas, but I really hope it supports webgl also, looks like an interesting library.
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braco_alva on Monday November 25, 2013 @03:11PM
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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.
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braco_alva on Thursday October 10, 2013 @11:13PM
from the ask-hn dept.
This is a question mostly for non US folks, has anyone used Payoneer US Payment Service to sell paid apps on the Play Store or to charge with Paypal, Amazon, etc...?I've been thinking about giving it a try, but wanted to check if anyone has some good advice about it. Thanks!
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.
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braco_alva on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @11:14AM
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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.
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braco_alva on Sunday June 09, 2013 @01:18PM
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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?
Posted by
braco_alva on Friday January 11, 2013 @08:29PM
from the show-hn dept.
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 :)