James Vanas @jamesvanas
Made LocoLooper 🚂🛤🧩🕹 Football: The Beautiful Game 🤸♂️⚽️ Prev: SeatGeek iOS 🎫 Serato Social: https://t.co/8gXCq0MRsJ Threads: @staminajim bsky.app/profile/jamesv… Aotearoa New Zealand Joined June 2009-
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In my hands is my first iPod. Steve Jobs is smiling at me. Everybody at the Apple Store is smiling. I take off my Apple Vision. I am back in the retirement home. Nobody has visited me for 12 years. I put it back on. I hold my iPod. Everybody in the Apple Store is smiling.
For those lucky enough to be receiving a shiny new #visionpro tomorrow. Check out Void-X if you wanna shoot retro aliens with immersive effects! apps.apple.com/us/app/void-x/…
I was interviewed by Apple 🍎 about the Design of the Ancient Board Game Collection! You can read it here: developer.apple.com/news/?id=20mvi… #indiedev #iosdev
Once a month I get a thank you email for Loco Looper. I know it's not much but to be honest it's the only thing keeping me going
Synthwave-ish experiment from earlier this year, using CGA palette 1 (4 pretty nice ugly colors)
Kinda amusing and cute in a way. Well before I’d completed the tiny planet motif or established the art style, and was just beginning to convert the game from 2D to 3D
Kinda amusing and cute in a way. Well before I’d completed the tiny planet motif or established the art style, and was just beginning to convert the game from 2D to 3D
I think I'm underwhelmed when shown ray tracing in modern games, because in my mind it should look like this. Not "same but slightly more damp". Bonus points for the ground being a checkerboard
I'm in love with this game's art direction
I'm in love with this game's art direction
This is a funny joke except for the fact that Discord are 100% going to do some dumb money pivot one day and self-destruct in the exact same way Unity is.
Really like these graphics. And I'm very impressed that it runs on its own game engine. :)
Really like these graphics. And I'm very impressed that it runs on its own game engine. :)
The biggest trick was convincing indie game developers you can't make a 3D game without Unity. If I (a game engine n00b) could make this one, I'm sure you could too! (or make friends with a software dev) 🚀
Capa City ⚡️
It is a crime I hadn’t tried this game by @jamesvanas before. It is lovely and a ton of fun: locolooper.com
Still a sucker for isometric rendering
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visionOS App: Cosmic Universe Simulator💫 Creating this app to get people interested in space and to feel the importance of Mother Earth. Protect this miraculous planet peacefully, with care, and pass it on to the next generation.🌎🌍🌏 App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/cosmic-…
Defend Cow Castle is a SwiftGodotKit application for VisionOS that renders volumes into the shared space. Like Unity's Polyspatial, but for Godot, now available on the AppStore: Congratulations to Therese 3D Studio for the launch! apps.apple.com/us/app/defend-…
In my hands is my first iPod. Steve Jobs is smiling at me. Everybody at the Apple Store is smiling. I take off my Apple Vision. I am back in the retirement home. Nobody has visited me for 12 years. I put it back on. I hold my iPod. Everybody in the Apple Store is smiling.
For those lucky enough to be receiving a shiny new #visionpro tomorrow. Check out Void-X if you wanna shoot retro aliens with immersive effects! apps.apple.com/us/app/void-x/…
My first App of 2024 is nearly here!
VisionOS Simulator Hands is now on Github and open for everyone to hack on 👐🥽 github.com/BenLumenDigita… Due to limited time, I can't guarantee how quickly I'll be making progress. Blame Santa Claus 🎅 💛💜💙
This was a nice surprise and I'm honoured Mela 4 made The GarageBand Guide's Best iOS Apps of 2023 list. Thank you Patrick 🧡🧡
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I was interviewed by Apple 🍎 about the Design of the Ancient Board Game Collection! You can read it here: developer.apple.com/news/?id=20mvi… #indiedev #iosdev
Finishing touches added and I think we are ready for the Retro Festival at @computermuseum this weekend! 😀
Ahhh! I’m so excited!! Thanks so much, and congrats to all the other nominees too! 🥳🥳🥳
Excited to reveal the RISING STAR AWARD nominees at Canada’23! • Spirit City: Lofi Sessions • Unleaving • Mahou Senshi Cosplay Club • Cornucopia • Chasing the Unseen • The Crimson Diamond Award goes to the best game by a small team with no publisher. Kudos to nominees 💫
@jamesvanas Hugs James. It is a great game!
Not sure what the next step is here. I think it's pretty obvious this isn't a product people really want en mass, so I'll try some ASO for a while and also think about side hustle niche spin offs with it.
So... what to do with it. Search Ads, right? Nope - not much traffic from that, and the cost isn't making financial sense as only about 10% of users convert to paying customers.