Share My Creation My Playground

My Playground is now on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=les3f.b4a.myplaygroundfree


12 activities in a single application for children from 3 y.o. !

Available in french and english. Translators welcome.

 

[ilan]

REALLY AWESOME !!!!

I would be a bit rude and I will give you little advice, maybe in the painting you can do that the paint will not cover the picture the paint should be behind the picture so if you go outside the lines it wont clear the picture.
i did it in my app i think its nicer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=www.sagitalasf.net&hl=en)


2.) second advice, pause the music by leaving the app

 

[Informatix]

REALLY AWESOME !!!!

I would be a bit rude and I will give you little advice, maybe in the painting you can do that the paint will not cover the picture the paint should be behind the picture so if you go outside the lines it wont clear the picture.
i did it in my app i think its nicer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=www.sagitalasf.net&hl=en)


2.) second advice, pause the music by leaving the app

Thank you for the comments.

In the painting activity, I cannot distinguish the background from the foreground as I handle pictures as a whole (the drawing+the blank sheet behind). I cannot do differently if I want to support the import of user's pictures. But I agree that would be better with separate layers. On the other hand, that makes it like the real thing.

For the music, it's something that went unnoticed despite all tests made (mainly because my son doesn't use any other app on his tablet). I will add an option in the configuration to pause the music when the app is temporarily left. It will be true by default.

I downloaded your app and I think that my kid will love it. Why didn't you translate the text ? (it's a bit disturbing when you click on the french flag, everything stays in english) And the language setting doesn't seem to be saved. When I exit, it's lost.

 

[ilan]

I downloaded your app and I think that my kid will love it. Why didn't you translate the text ? (it's a bit disturbing when you click on the french flag, everything stays in english) And the language setting doesn't seem to be saved. When I exit, it's lost.

i did this game 1 year ago and left it like it is, i will change it so it wil save the language and also translet the text as you said

thank you for your advice

 

[walterf25]

Hi Informatix, did you make this using Libdx?

 

[Informatix]

Hi Informatix, did you make this using Libdx?

No, it's done with the Nine Old Androids and Accelerated Surface libs. I started working on this project many months before I wrap LibGDX.

 

[Informatix]

2.) second advice, pause the music by leaving the app

Done. The new version has been released.
Finally, I didn't add a new setting. It's become the default behavior.

 

[Informatix]

Version 1.02 is online.

I added the spanish language and fixed a bug. Thanks to Marion.

 

[Informatix]

CHRISTMAS PROMOTION: ONLY 0,99 € / $ 1.34 UNTIL THE END OF DECEMBER !

Link to Google Play

 

[ilan]

cool, do you have any sales until now?

 

[Informatix]

cool, do you have any sales until now?

No, but fortunately for us, we don't count on this. We made the app as a trial run and, to be honest, I'm not satisfied by a few things in it. For example, I used the Accelerated Surface lib and I find it a bit slow on some devices. Moreover it does not offer as much possibilities as libGDX, but libGDX came too late to be used for this project.
Our next project will be more "professional".

 

[ilan]

how many developers are you? are you interested of selling your project?

 

[Informatix]

how many developers are you? are you interested of selling your project?

We are two, me and my wife. I'm the developper, she's the graphic designer. I contacted other people but I realized quickly that's almost impossible to create an international team to publish on Google Play because that means creating an international company and it's out of question for a small team with no starting budget. Only free apps can be done.
About selling our work, we study all proposals.

 

[ilan]

maybe erel could add a "sell my project" section here in B4A, i will continue with private massage...

 

[Erel]

Do you mean to sell the project source code? You can use the Business Forum for that. If it catches (I doubt it) we can add a new subforum for that.

 

[ilan]

ok erel, we can give it a try, but how should people know about it??
should i open a new topic in Business forum?

 

[Erel]

Yes.

 

[JakeBullet70]

No, but fortunately for us, we don't count on this. We made the app as a trial run and, to be honest, I'm not satisfied by a few things in it. For example, I used the Accelerated Surface lib and I find it a bit slow on some devices. Moreover it does not offer as much possibilities as libGDX, but libGDX came too late to be used for this project.
Our next project will be more "professional".

Informatix, have you looked the the OUYA market? I am finding that apps are running fine (it's just Android) and the only thing I have to do is change from touch to the controller. Its still a small market but another market never the less.

 

[Informatix]

It's something to consider, indeed, but the product is a bit too new and what I've read so far about it in french is not very flattering. Porting our work to iOs has a greater priority from our point of view.

 

[Johnmcenroy]

Wonderful application !
Informatix , take a look at Sensor Tower and Straply keyword tools , think that you can increase much your downloads with them. I use them for estimation of volume on various keywords. Of cause it is not perfect because there are no real stats from app store , but in general very useful to know where to move. I use them myself and also change locale in Google Play and see suggested keywords and then check them in these tools. Suggested keywords very useful to know what people search , but locale in android must be changed to spanish for example to know real suggested keywords in google play for spain market by google. Also I suggest you to register your app in 3 main android forums (androidforums,android central,xda) and androidpit. Your app will appear in google in minutes.Good luck. Hope it will help.