woah....long time dind't update!

Wow, didn't realized that it been so long tim(10 months) didn't update my blog already.... Nearly forget the existing of my blog here...Seem it was a restful Sunday, just try to put something on here again.

After read back my previous posts, my last programming platform touched was iPhone development. But unfortunately i was stopped to develop the iphone application after release the kawaii snowglobe at Apple Appstore as ours company focus was switch to facebook games which getting hotter around the gaming industry. So, i was starting to learning the flash as3 language for developing another facebook games.My focus was to built out the prototype so can use for showcase during E3 game expo by ours company. After that, i was turn to helping ours current facebook fishing game(fishafish) to port the server side into smartfox server which will able support more concurrent users. After the fishafish was smartfox equiped, the total users was starts grow rapidly and spread widely. The total users tried ours game was surpass 1million players which was huges surpise for us and maintain on hundred thousand monthly users. It was a total new experience for us on the facebook game achievement. I was learn alot during involve on the fishafish developments. The funny thing was maintaining the facebook games. It quite similar to maintaining the MMORPG games.It need to kick users and doing the patching when figure any bugs on that. The game maintenance was become heavy task after the fishafish getting huge attention from gamer and more complaint come from users on everyday. It was quite a heavy job to support the users while try to develop the new content for the games. But it was a good experience to see how the facebook game can grow up so rapidly and the positive feedback of some players and they like to play on this games. I can say that the facebook game open a new area for indie game developer to reach up with gamer compare to the PC/Console games which very hard to target users group.

After learn and making game for several year, i think it time to plan and make something can refresh my vision on the game development life. It was a bad year for some local game company as it was a global recession year. But lucky some was manage to cross on this. There still got alot of space for game developer especially individual developer to try out their game into the market and make a profit on that after several platform like iphone/ovi store/andriod market were intro to the industry. I think it was so easy to market their game to consumer now day compare last time.

I think it time to end here. see you on next update. (haha hope no take too long :P )