The Monster is Unleashed

It's been over a month since we released King of the Kaiju on Google Play, and it is doing pretty well, by my typical standards. It is getting a nice number of downloads and ratings and it is also our best game to date as far as average AdMob earnings.

Eric and I are continuing to work on it a little. Nothing that really changes functionality or game play, but some cool additions. I made the title bar on the menu a tiny bit animated and I better optimized how the buildings in the background spawn. I added a couple achievements and cleaned up the awarding of a couple existing ones. Additionally, Eric has been making some little "flair" items that will show up in game around holidays. I added a new class to the code that checks the current date against that of holidays that I've set up in the class, so, for example, around the 27th of October (tomorrow) some Halloween cosmetic items should start showing up for anybody who has the current version of the game. Its a purely aesthetic addition, but its kind of cool and every month or so a new one will show up within 5 days trailing or leading a holiday.

On another note, Eric and I are thinking about moving forward with the Icarus game that I've already started. This is yet another very simple, one-click type game, but like King of the Kaiju it is a simple little time sink for when you are on the bus or waiting in a line or what have you. The Icarus project is something we'll be looking at as we think about our next new game.