Updates – Vanadium Games

Monthly Review – November

06/12/201824/02/2019
by Joshua Heng

The email newsletter version of this is available here.

Hi all,

The main focus this month was the release of The Stacks on both the App Store and Google Play, and we are proud to say that our target was met.
Because of everyone working on this, not much else was done. Nevertheless, we are pleased with what we accomplished.

The Stacks was officially released on the 19th of November 2018 on Google Play and on the 20th of November on the App Store.

Since then, as the time of writing this, we have had over 10 installs on Google Play and over 110 downloads on the App Store, with very positive reviews. We would be grateful if you could spread the word about The Stacks and encourage people you know to leave reviews.

We are nearly at the end of the journey of The Stacks. We have a few bugs to address (such as the jump butting being temperamental and some adverts not working on iOS), however these are nearly all fixed. Hopefully, by the start of January, we are hoping that we will be able to finally declare The Stacks as a finished project.

This will allow us to develop many more games for mobile, and if you have any concepts which you would like to see made, you can email us at [email protected].

In conclusion, the month of November was focuse on finally releasing all our hard work, and, in the close future, we will begin working on our new games. If you would like to stay up to date with our activity, please follow us on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.

Thanks for reading,
Joshua Heng
Lead Game Developer

Bimonthly Newsletter

Monthly Review – September 2018

01/10/2018
by Joshua Heng

Welcome to the first monthly review! At Vanadium Games, we are aiming to publish a review every month, covering a summary of what we have been up to.

All reviews will also be available in our monthly newsletter, of which you can subscribe to here.

Anyway, what we have been up to in September?

We have been focusing on developing our platformer The Stacks to the point where it can be released to the App and Google Store, as well as making multiple improvements to the game:

We added the functionality of having multiple languages available, with Spanish already translated
We added touchscreen controls for mobile devices, as well as a slider to allow the user to change the GUI size
We added the opportunity to gain an extra life on mobile devices by watching an advertisement
We totally updated our leaderboard system to use our server and to have separate leaderboards for mobile and PC
We fixed multiple bugs

The Stacks is available as a public beta on both Apple and Android, so if you want to help test our game, you can join our testing programme.

In other news, we have made plans to start our next game, Tapping Tournament. Nothing is set in stone though, so we are not revealing any details until later.

We also have been sorting our admin and background jobs, which will enable us to develop games faster and more efficiently in the future.

Our social media manager Morgan has been busy posting and updating our Instagram, Twitter and Facebook pages (which you can follow by clicking on our social media links or searching us – @vanadiumgames). If you want to receive quick updates and interesting facts, follow us there!

Anyway, that’s all for this month.

Joshua

Blog

Latest Updates & Supporting Multiple Languages

02/09/2018
by Harry Groom

This week at Vanadium Games we have been working on various projects and we are developing a new game, which is set to be released in the relatively close future. It will be an online multiplayer game involving minigames, and it will support multiple languages.

We are also planning to begin support for multiple languages in the near future, such as Spanish and French. It is a good idea to do this as it allows more people from different countries and cultures to play the same game, regardless of their language. This results in a better game for everyone, as well as creates a larger player base, helping our community to grow.

We have been very busy this week developing fun, interesting, and engaging games for you, our customers, to enjoy, as well as focusing on the admin side of things such as setting up our bank account and licenses. You will not be disappointed by the projects that we currently have in development, including a new edition of The Stacks for mobile!