Our First Android Game

It is a pleasure to share the story behind our first android game development Thumb Cannon — OneTouch Arcade

It has been always exciting to try new things at our studios. While working on the application design and development for clients, I had a touch of launching our own small, sweet and simple game targeting mobile users. From our team, anyone did not have prior experience of game development. So one of our team member Darshit Soni started exploring Unity technologies and tried his hands on Unity engine. As this was a wild experiment, we thought to use a ready available script for the base of the project and the first thing come to our mind was Unity Assets Store.

After a short of research and going back and forth in the development process, our first game was ready within 1 week with all custom made graphics at our studio. And we became super excited as all testings as a success. And now what next? The first thing is to give a proper name to the game. There was a mix of opinions with various suggestions like; Cannon Shoot, Shoot The Wall, Touch The Cannon, Shoot The Ball etc. And at the end with majority of votes we had selected “Thumb Cannon” (which represents using the cannon with a thumb, and that is how the game works).

The name was decided and now we required a cool logo for it. So my teammate came with this one;

What a great idea, Isn’t it? We have also created an game icon out of this concept.

With a working game, proper name and now an attractive logo & icon. We are now ready to launch the same. But the game required play store graphics as well, so the prospective players can understand what it is about and how it works. So here what we have designed;

And finally with all this efforts, the rocket was ready to get the fire in the booster on 11th August, 2016. And we clicked on launch button.

It was really a joyful journey of the new launch. As a part of post launch promotion, we shared the link to our social media and asked some friends to try it. The response was overwhelming. The game got 35+ ‘5 Star’ reviews and about 100 downloads. The figures are not huge, but for the starts in the industry like us it is a positive energy builder.

If you wish, you can play it and share your views.

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