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PGSINK or PlayGameStudios Ink

Android Developer

I built a few games for android over the years and managed to publish a few. I soon realized, building a game is not the end of the project, one also has to market and promote the game which becomes a continuous process and given the very large number of games out there, it turns into a competition about who see's a certain app first. Even though there may be millions of people with Android Phones most of them would see, max, the top 100 games. It is very difficult for a new project to get noticed and be seen because it would be at the very bottom of the list.

This led me to quit game development full time and tone it back down to hobby level. I have a few projects unfinished which I hope to bring to fruition in the next few years, if you have played my games:

Thank you! GLHF!

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Top Android Encryption Apps

After I released my own android encryption app called Dexacrypt , I wanted to see what else was available on the market. Although, I thought my idea was unique there are already a large number of encryption apps on the market. Let's review some of them and rank them. In this post, we will only look at message encryption apps and not advanced apps such as Surespot or SSE that provide file encryption or messaging. Meet the Contenders: Encrypt Messages And Text This app was last updated in November 2021 and has more than a 100,000 installs. Many reviews praise its simple UI and small size, however one user has specified that the latest version no longer works on Android 12. Secret Message - Encrypt/Decrypt Messages This app has a slightly larger size of 12 MB but only has 5000+ installs. The top review says and I quote, I am sorry but this is not as easy or self explanatory as it should be. You need to grab someone and hand them a phone and watch their expression. Ouch! maybe h...

Beware: Those who use chatGPT for their exams or work!

ChatGPT struggles with prime numbers! While trying to understand how the public private key cryptographic architecture works using chatGPT, I asked what is a coprime number after chatgpt explained its use in the said architecture. Here is the response in all its glory: Two numbers are said to be coprime (or relatively prime) if they have no common prime factors other than 1. In other words, their greatest common divisor (GCD) is 1. For example: 8 and 15 are coprime because their only common factor is 1. 14 and 15 are coprime because they share no common factors other than 1. 10 and 21 are not coprime because they both have 1 as a common factor. Looking at the first and then the last example which is supposed to be a counter-example as to what is not a coprime number, we can clearly see that chatgpt gives the same reason for each case i.e they only have 1 as a common factor. After further investigation, chatgpt replies: Apologies for the confusion. You're correct. 10 and 21 do not h...

GameDev Lessons: Endless Runners Part 1

Every Game Developer probably starts with an endless runner and there are many tutorials on the internet to do just that but after building a few myself, I can tell you that most of those tutorials are filled with bad advice which from a learning point of view makes sense to help a beginner get the concepts quickly but in the long run they can turn things into a gruesome mess which becomes a chore to update or improve upon. It is my opinion that although a tutorial should have instructions that are quick and easy to replicate, it is much more important to organize the code and assets in such a way that they can be easily built upon. Almost every tutorial at the end of the day should be self contained as much as possible so that they can be easily changed by the person following it. This means, instead of simply uploading a zip file containing the whole project, each part of the tutorial should be organized in such a way so they can be easily copied into an existing project. Now with th...

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