Trying to make a successful Game in 30 days

We challenged us to make an actual good game in 30 days so let us know what you think about it
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Hey Guys we make a mobile game in 30 days, and show you the progress in this devlog. The challenge was not only to make a game in one month but to make an actual successful game in 30 days. We had a lot of fun making the game and we hope you enjoy it. Let us know what you think about it here in the comments or in our Discord we really appreciate your feedback and hope that you also like the game so that we can continue to work on it.
If you are new to our channel, we are Roxy and Mike and we make games full time. On our channel we will show our progress, work and make some challenges like this one for example and other random game dev related stuff.
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[@Lakiii]

You guys are insane! So much progress in one month and the game looks gorgeous, congrats :)

[@K53LearnersApp]

Best couple match ever Designer x Programmer, Loving your videos guys

[@mr.coolio4321]

These videos are awesome, I hope plenty more people see them! 😎👍

[@MikeRoxyGames]

thanks! yeah we too :D

[@AuliyaasGames]

You guys did amazing! Thanks for showing the whole process, so amazing to see every step explained so succinctly. Roxy, you are such a cutie & I love your models!!!!!

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Thank you :)

[@samllea1]

i love your videos guys! Good work, keep it up! Maybe you should try also make a tycoon game? They always get popular!

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Thanks!

[@alignedgames]

I love your workflow and modeling! Very good!

[@MelvinTangGames]

Hey Rike! I've been playing your game for like 3-5 days now to fill my free time during work!. Here I have list some work you can do to improve your game (I heard that you wanted to take this game seriously and polish it further) 1. The 2x reward button doesn't seem to give 2x every time? Idk is this just my feeling or what it might give me 3x or even 4x 2. The current wave button can be larger (if you don't want to cover the screen you can add a animation when the player press the Battle button) 3. possibly add a power up system like missile, rocket launcher, fireball, nails, etc 4. the game is not balanced especially in the early levels (typically wave 1-5 is pretty fkin hard) 5. Add skin feature?? so you can make the most of your in-app purchase rather just a skip ad purchase 6. some prices are a little bit high like upgrading the base health and reward to purchase ratio is a little bit off I hope my suggestion really helps, keep up your good work Mike & Roxy! looking forward to play your future games

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Hey MelvinTangGames, thanks for the great feedback! We will definitely consider all of it for our future updates :) It really helps us to improve the game...

[@blacknwhite1313]

Wow

[@Jankujewa]

you have an incredible ability to explain complicated things simply!

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Thanks!

[@c4346]

I love the team you've put together, it's truly inspiring. The game looks really cool, I'm going to try it out :D

[@siddharthk9487]

I was missing your videos 😭😭

[@topborec128]

I tried the game. The game is not bad, bad idk why, but all my progress reset without any reason when I closed the game and opened the game again

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Thanks for the feedback. Oh that should not happen 😢 we will fix this asap

[@MikeRoxyGames]

We pushed an update and it should be fixed now… hopefully :).. thanks again for letting us know!

[@ssbsbsbsb]

​@@MikeRoxyGames I think it is fixed, I didn't had any problem with that

[@danielmartinez9474]

also you may have fixed this already but it was not allowing me to watch ads for more coins

[@MikeRoxyGames]

@@danielmartinez9474 Thanks for letting us know! yes there was an issue but it should be fixed now :)

[@nin3_]

this was a really fun watch >:D

[@hansfritz6026]

Really cool i wish you guys would turn this into a udemy course or any self made online course By using simply free assets ir just unity built-in objects

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Thanks for the feedback! Maybe in the future🙂

[@DSP_GAMERS]

Waited for so long for your video buddies 😊

[@SondaPower]

Nice models and a game as well 😊

[@MHussainJatoi]

Awesome Boss 🤩

[@LukezLolz]

great vid! you guys are criminally underrated, keep up the good work!!!!!! i also downloaded on app store very good game

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Thanks! Yes we keep going 🙂 nice that you like the game

[@mrsaluyt]

Just downloaded the game and ite fantastic 😍

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Thanks for playing and the feedback 🙂

[@amirhossein_alimirzaei]

This video was great and inspired me to start a new project in Unity 😍😁👏👏 I really like that you tell the main details of the implementation of each part of your game. For example, weighing the bones in Blender, using scriptableObjects for zombies and soldier, using a separate camera to render the 3d character and use Raw texture to show that in the game menu, using a script to save the position and rotation of the character (this case was interesting for me and I have to test it myself 😁👍) and... I think the next game is an 3d idle arcade with special mechanics, it will be interesting 😄 Thank you again and keep up the good work. 👍👏👏

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Nice to hear and thanks for the feedback 🙂 we wish you luck and success for your next project

[@AgeOfTheJoshua]

Looks very nice I really like the lowpoly models looks super cool! And also the optimizations very clever!

[@yakdoggames]

Great video. Can you do a video on how you analyze if the game is profitable? (KPI, CPI, etc)? Thanks!

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Thanks! We made a video (making a game in one day) where we explained the KPIs and testing a bit more, if you have more question you can join our discord... we're happy if we can help

[@LeonJCort]

Very nice game and the loop definitely works and it has a really cool loop. Two things though. Ads doesn't work and I think the sniper and machine gun are mixed. Machine guns reloads slowly and hits hard

[@MikeRoxyGames]

thank you! we had an issue with the ads, but it should be resolved now. we will check if they are mixed but the machine gun reloads also a bit slower and makes high damage, not as much as the sniper. Glad you like the game! :)

[@goldencookie5456]

Somehow the 1 day game has 1k+ and this has 100+ downloads.

[@squidz2720]

Great video guys and really well done on the game, it plays great and can see people sinking some time into it!

[@clarisrichter7966]

Have you guys contemplated working with hyper casual game publishers? From what I know they help test and refine your ideas to meet the KPIs

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Yes, actually we’ve been working with publishers in the past

[@farplayzwastaken]

The game is overall good, but there is a problem when i click on collect ×2 button the ad doesn't play and nothing happens at all.

[@turochir4082]

Played game and gave first 5 start xD, game looks cool but going back to position reload and then place again feels little bit annoying. I would love when placed then keep that position reloading but i can change whenever i want. Sorry this sounds quite different loop mechanic but just suggesting and sorry for poor english XD.

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Thanks for the rating feedback and suggestions 🙂the idea sounds interesting

[@raxcatchall]

Mikeroxy can we have like foto’s of the models? I really like the black swat guy and want him like an avatar for my profile picture hope you’ll do something like that subbed !

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Hey yes sure, join our discord and we can send you screenshots of the model 🙂

[@raxcatchall]

@@MikeRoxyGames I will !

[@m.e2837]

Nice Video, Can you guys make full tutorial on how to make, animate and import 3d models in unity

[@MikeRoxyGames]

It’s a really broad topic. Do you have any specific questions, or are you asking about the overall process?

[@XadegamerOfficial]

Very interesting. please make full tutorial on how to make, animate and export 3d models in unity

[@user-th2sr1td3r]

Hey sir I have an suggestion here for your game. As you asked for help in the video. I see potential in the game but you know what you only have few ways to earn by which players get benefits. First one is to get double money, second one is to remove ads and lastly third one is to remove tickets I guess (I dont know what tickets do please explain in reply) I would suggest you to add a Game Pass, in which If players purchase it they could remove all ads, they will get new amazing skins for their players as well as zombies, they will be able to get 3x coins without watching any ads, and they will get 1 free revive every match for a like 5 d0llars, and it should be monthly. Look if someone only wants to remove ads it would only be 1 time. But by making a game pass you will be able to get money from them every month

[@MikeRoxyGames]

The Skip it's let you skip the rewarded ads, so you get the reward without watching an ad… Thanks for the feedback!!!

[@user-th2sr1td3r]

@@MikeRoxyGames what do you think about the game pass which I explain

[@MikeRoxyGames]

@@user-th2sr1td3r Yeah it's a good way to monetize but we first need to make sure that the actual core game is pretty good so we will add more content and stuff before deep diving into monetization

[@video-500]

Installed and played to wave 7... Interested in how you plan where to put ads, and monetization in general.

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Thanks for playing! At the moment we’re mainly focusing on the core gameplay, monetization can be quite complex and we probably will test a bunch of different things, of course depending on the KPIs of the game… We’ll share our progress 🙂

[@muneebhero1159]

Hwy , how do you both work in one project in real time

[@MikeRoxyGames]

We use GitHub

[@remijoel1448]

Is it successful now?... Are you Testing with a Publisher? Did you do ASO for the game on the App store? Are you guys earning from the game? Are you guys just creating for fun?... These are questions I really wanna ask you and your Wife

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Hey! Still too early to say. This game not with a publisher. We did not really much in terms of ASO. Hopefully :D. Yes, we're creating also for fun :) but we are full time game developers

[@remijoel1448]

@@MikeRoxyGames hmmm.. I see well if you ever need help with ASO, I can try helping out, and don't worry... Am not gonna charge you or anything,i usually like to put my Skills to the test as a form of improvement, are you guys targeting App store or Play store? Cuz ASO tend to be more better and effective on App store than Play store

[@juancamacho479]

as interesting this type of videos are, the app store are flooded with the type of games that make you watch ads, its just annoying, like if it was something meaningful like more skins, or more power etc, but watch ads just to keep playing or extra lives is just dumb

[@Minecraft_Gaming2]

#comment 50

[@ReverseFlash.]

do you guys have any tips for someone that wants to learn c# in unity

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Write down every functionality your project needs and start implementing them step by step, learning by doing, follow tutorials and read the docs and keep going... try to actually understand what you are doing or at least a little bit…

[@ReverseFlash.]

@@MikeRoxyGames thank you

[@senter06]

Game is not visible in appstore

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Links are in the description. On iOS it’s called: World Z defense: Zombies end

[@FortbloxNET]

Did you test it or just assume it that raycast are to much? Mobile phones nowadays are so goddam fast. I don’t believe you can’t use some tiny racyasts and colliders for a mobile game…

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Sure, modern phones are really powerful it’s rather a problem for low end (especially old android) devices… so yes you can use raycasts and colliders, we did it in some of our games. We haven’t made a benchmark test especially for this game, but we are pretty sure that spatial partitioning is more performant even if it’s just slightly… maybe we’ll make a test to see the difference exactly

[@a-google-user07]

took you long enough lol

[@MHussainJatoi]

I want to start making casual games. Do you have any suggestion how I can begin my game development journey?

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Nice to hear! Well, our suggestion is to just start making your first game and try to understand as much as you can. Follow tutorials, read the docs and keep going. If you are really new, try to make your first project not too big to finish it relatively fast 🙂… play similar games to benchmark. We wish you luck on your journey

[@remijoel1448]

Honest truth... Don't make casual games except you just wanna create something for fun, if trying to create with business mindset.. Then don't create a casual game

[@Serx95]

great games you are making :) and i tried to contact you guys via your website but im unable to deliver my message it is not going through.

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Thanks! 🙂 hmm.. we’ll check this.. if you want to connect, you can join our discord

[@Serx95]

@@MikeRoxyGames invite to discord is invalid , can we connect through other mediums ?

[@MikeRoxyGames]

@@Serx95 try this link: discord.gg/dvyaB28EjN it should work if not.. you can check our email on our profile

[@farplayzwastaken]

The game is overall good, but there is a problem when i click on collect ×2 button the ad doesn't play and nothing happens at all.

[@MikeRoxyGames]

Thanks for the feedback! We’re working on it 🙂