This is my compo right here and here is the story of how I discovered it got nabbed.

HOW TO BE ANAL-ITICS

For The Hunger, I had no idea how many people played it and where they were stuck. So I added in some analytics using Countly, which I like because it’s real time.

Numbers are super high at … 20 new players a day, well super high for me I guess since I didn’t promote this thing so I was a bit surprised the other day when I saw this.

Exponention growth, but from where?

I did post it on Kongregate and Playdot, could K be that popular? Problem with Countly is it’s not made for web, it’s for mobile, so they don’t capture the source url. So I spent a few minutes implementing Google Analytics to a new build, that didn’t work so I did something very low tek: verion prefix with the domain, 1.1p for playfot and 1.1k for kongregate and in case they hotlinked it to my server I kept 1.1 for http://mcdroidgame.com. Then I waited to see which number was increasing the most. And got a surprise.

Sourcing from the stone age

Someone nabbed the .unity3d package and placed it on his own server.  

THE GRAND LARCENY

Making something for free is fun because if it sucks, who cares. But how is it if someone steals your free thing and makes some money off it? It does suck a little but what I am really interested is finding what site gets THIS MUCH TRAFFIC, because 1500 play a day is waaaaaaaaaaaay better than Kongregate.

So I google Water Miner Unity and find this…

This is not the Water Miner you are looking for.

The file was probably renamed and google leads nowhere.

What do you guys think, any idea which site it’s on?

You could only carve and inventory was hidden, it is the case no longer.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=37031

Ever felt lonely? Wish you would *make* friends easily? We have something for you.

The Friend Maker Gun, or FMG for you all acronym-lovers, will turn your enemy into your best friend, throwing their life for you.

For example you are on a lone mission to take over an entire red army base, shoot the FMG at a few of them and voila, you make a blue army in no time.

Only $9,999,999.95 for a limited time!

Not convinced yet? look at those pretty screenshots and try it out NOW for FREE!

That big blue dude is an enemy commander converted into a friend (he just got killed through, you can say he is dying of boundless love for you)

Always use a friend as shield.

This is the game: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=37031

You’re a kid and like to be an angel with your parents, but when they are out… it’s another story.

And your parents just happen to leave you for a short while.

Kitchen.

Bathroom

Balcony with squirrels

Bedroom

Living Room

Nothing is safe from you.

I made this in a few hours using choicescript, it’s buggy so if you want to play it and the loading bar is rolling forever, press RESTART.

I spent the initial hours working around the *interesting syntax*, for example you can’t have more than 2 boolean terms in an *if statement, but once I got that sorted out, it was a real pleasure to write the logic.

In the game, available choices depend also on your state of evilness, that red and blue gauge at the top. And yes you can crank the evil all the way past the screen width.

Hope you enjoy as much as I did.