Publishing a Commercial iPhone Game, Start To Finish

Niklas Wahrman writes with this "motivational story on how a student and part-time developer was able to take an idea and turn it into an Android project and then port to iPhone for commercial release in less than a year. In the article, he focuses on how to get a game done — a problem many independent developers face. During the development of the game, Asterope, he took a lot of screenshots from many of the development stages that show how the game gradually came to life."

Comments

Re:Good for him.

[butalearner]

A detailed post-mortem is always a good thing. I have to say I love reading gamasutra's PM's - I get a much better perspective on the projects I do, if I can occasionally see how other people got through theirs.

I agree wholeheartedly. I usually go to GameDev's collection of post-mortems, which includes links to gamasutra's. The "what went wrong" sections are especially insightful.

Re:Good for him.

[WiredNut]

Well he's not stealing my vote. I give it freely. As for higher taxes, that is tough for those with net income over 250K in a household, but they are already taxed in the highest bracket I believe, and it will only be a small increase, hardly enough to remove one from existence. As for the free ride, I see plenty of criticism of Obama, if Fox doesn't count as mainstream I wonder why they have a monopoly in the two airport public areas I passed through last week? Holy crap it was a load of talking heads screeching like gibbering monkeys. And of course Katie Couric is a crappy interviewer...the problem was that she was chosen by the Palin campaign, and is one of only a very, very few public interviews she submits to...contrast that to Biden who spews to any reporter willing to sit still long enough. And gosh, if Katie Couric of all people was able to stump Palin, well, I guess that tells us something about Palin's abilities... Wait. Did I just get trolled? Crap me, this is off topic but hella fun.

Re:Cell Phone Games?

[XxtraLarGe]

Agreed 100%. I own a Samsung Omnia with WinMo 6.1 (my 3rd WinMo device - the first 2 were ipaqs) and I just don't get this whole mobile gaming thing this side of GameBoy/DS.

I have a DS which I enjoy a lot, but I would have to say that my iPod Touch is definitely my most played game platform at the moment. I bought a bunch of games for $.99 each (Solebon, Cro-Mag Rally, Burning Monkey Puzzle Lab to name a few). They're all good for a quick gaming session when I have a few minutes to kill. Plus, you have companies like THQ, Namco, Electronic Arts, Atari, Konami, Sega and Hudson Soft developing for the iPod, so it's obviously a hot platform for games.