Today, after a long day of work we received an unusual request from Giammarco Agazzotti, our main developer, he wanted to talk with us about something important. 😧 Today is a very difficult day for me. I decided to move on and seek for another adventure. The time spent with you at TwistedMirror Games has been amazing. I discovered and learned so much about mobile development, something new to me...
Star Strooper MVP: let’s try something new
After analyzing the problem with Pixel Traveler, we realized that we may have made two possible mistakes: We haven’t tried our idea before investing time in the developmentWe haven’t promoted our game properly Maybe we should validate our game ideas before committing months of our time in building something people don’t want eh? 😅 With Pixel Traveler we started with the...
Harsh Truth: Not everything goes according to plan
After 3 months from the release of Pixel Traveler we haven’t got the reaction we were expecting from the mobile game community. When we launched Alberi and Treasure Maps in 2011 and 2013 the users engagement was way higher: we received emails with feedback, comments, ideas, feature requests, etc.. almost every week and money was flowing since day one. Considering that we weren’t even...
Pixel Traveler: a colorful game about Nurikabe!
We took our time but we have finally released our first game: Pixel Traveler. Yes it’s pixel art 🤓 The game is about collecting souvenirs from various world locations by completing nurikabe puzzles. For who is not familiar with Nurikabe, the game is about solving a grid by following a set of rules, in a similar fashion as Sudoku: Wikipedia Since grid based puzzle games are most of the time...