Show HN: Four months of indie game dev

Congrats on finishing and publishing the game.<p>I skipped a bit through the video and checked the game at the end.<p>Please, please, please save 1000-2000 grand, browse dribbble.com or similar, and get a decent designer to update the look on the game.<p>I'll try the game when I get home but if you hope to make some money out of it, you really need to polish the graphics/UI.

Based on the timestamps on the video it seems like 2 months were spent building the core game functionality. The remaining 2 months were pretty much used to polish the game.<p>Is that the case with most indie games? ~50% core gameplay and ~50% polish.

I like the idea of showing the progress of an application over time. You could use your CI system to take a snapshot on every commit. In the simplest form you could just take a screenshot, or to capture interaction you could record selenium tests (or any equivalent suite).

Nice! It's always super cool to see this type of thing. The more people doing it the better. I recommend putting together an easy to view infographic image.<p>I did something very similar for a project and put together a full blog post, video, and infographic. The infographic got waaaaaaay more attention and views than everything else.<p>Blog: <a href="http://forrestthewoods.com/30-weeks-of-development/" rel="nofollow">http://forrestthewoods.com/30-weeks-of-development/</a><p>Image: <a href="https://outland-live.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media/downloads/30weeksOfOutland.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://outland-live.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media/downlo...</a>

This is awesome. I was going to agree with the guy below about the ui needing some polish, but once it got to the later iterations I think it looks great. Shame I don't have an iOS device to try it out on.<p>I'm doing some game dev now too and wish I had video's of my progress to compile into a video like this. I guess I've got screenshots that I could stitch together that I used to show friends my progress early on.

Can the horizontal rotation being performed on the discs/coins as shown in the game, be performed with a 2D engine? (Is there some kind of matrix transformation that can accomplish it on an image?)<p>Or is it absolutely necessary to have a 3D model of a coin, in order to do that?

Fascinating way to view the development of an app. I'd love for more developers to do this!

Great video OP! Really inspiring stuff. Rooting for you and your game! :D

It's interesting to me that the thing you started with was the flipping disk. Reminds me of some blogposts from a year or two ago about 'juicy' interaction, and why it's important.

It's really great to see the evolution of a game like this, i agree with other commenters that it would be great to see other game developers do this.

Great work! loved the vid too