Developer Yellow: nomination Google Play Indie Games Festival ‘award for the work’

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The finalists for the Google Play Indie Games Festival 2018 are known. A game from Belgium, where it to the grand prize, and we spoke with the developer.

Earlier Yellow in the Google Play Indie Games Festival 2018

For the second time Google the Google Play Indie Games Festival. This event is designed to highlight the best games from small independent gamemakers extra attention to bring them to reward. Last year there were three games from the Netherlands in the final: Hidden Folks, Rusty Lake: Roots and Crap! I’m Broke. This year, one finalist from the Benelux: puzzle game Yellow of gamemaker Bart Bonte.

“Yellow has steadily continued to rise to almost four million Google Play downloads with very positive feedback and a high rating of 4.8/5,” says the proud maker of Android Planet. “That’s the game now a finals will do me a lot of fun and is a nice reward for all the work that I put into you.”

Motley will be stiff competition. Among the other finalists is its special Bury Me, My Love, the game in which you, via a smartphone interface, a refugee follows that of Syria to travel in Europe. Also the nice Bridge Constructor Portal and the beautiful Old Man’s Journey, there are.

“It is nice to have many games of other indiecollega to see between the finalists, which I the past year with lots of fun have played on,” says Bonte. “I appreciate the energy that Google puts out in the support of indiedevelopment with this initiative.” The full list of finalists can be found here.

Android still has a bad reputation as a gaming platform. s that is a result of the numerous devices with different specs where gamemakers should take into account. Also, games on Android have often illegally downloaded. Variegated leaves, however, take a more positive side: “As a developer, I actually only have praise for the current Google Play Store. The system excels in the recommend of games that have a high rating given by users to other users, who are otherwise in no way my game could get connected.”

In addition to that games with good reviews top, make Google itself more and more to manual good apps to select that is of good quality in each stitch. The Google Play Indie Games Festival is of.

“I am also very enthusiastic about the fact that the platform allows me to comments in the Play Store to place on comments from users, that this answer neatly in their mailbox to get it,” says Bonte. “This can be some misunderstandings directly, customs clearance, help to bugs quickly or to resolve a negative review do to reverse into a positive.”

Yellow is a puzzle game in which the in all the levels the intent is to have the screen completely yellow. In each screen, is there anything else expected of you. This way you are mainly experimenting to see what happens for example, if you tap or swipet. This keeps the game up to the end of fun.

Yellow is free to download in the Play Store. The app contains ads, but with a single 1,99 euro to pay these ads will be removed.

The winner will be on 13 February in London chosen. All of the finalists have already a paid trip to the award earned, but also a Pixel 2, and for a month a clear spot in an Indie Games Contest-corner of the Play Store. The top ten will get an even clearer position in the digital store, promotion for their game and a Daydream View.

The top three get tickets for Google I/O 2018, including travel, to a Google Home Mini and for 75,000 euros in vouchers for the marketing of their game. The winner will get a further € 75 000 for marketing and tickets for the Game Developers Conference in 2018 in San Francisco.

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17 January 2022, 17:25 | Views: 240