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Sure, though I wasn't really trying to plug it. It was a rough first project. I still have fun playing it now and then, but most have said it's too hard given the controls.
That's actually how I ended up settling on Beijing Crosswalk as my first original game(as opposed to tutorial projects I had followed along before).
My Game: Beijing Crosswalk
Time: That's hard to say. It's been just over a year since I quit my office job, but a good chunk of that time was spent learning stuff and making little practice games from tutorials. I started with no relevant experience so that took awhile.
Assets: A couple hundred dollars. I paid a friend for art but otherwise stuck to free stuff or made things myself. My wife picked up composing as a hobby and made the music, so that was great. As a side note, there is a lot of very nice creative commons music out there if you're not wanting something too specific.
Price: Free, ad supported.
Profit: Aside from the money I spent on art, I hired lawyers to set up all the legal stuff(LLC, various documents, etc). So I'm in the hole several thousand. I don't really expect this game to turn a profit or anything, it was mainly something I did for the sake of making something myself and going through the whole process to publishing and getting the company started.
All in all, I like the game I made. It's pretty fun and I'm proud to have made it, but it's really more of a stepping stone to working on a more ambitious project rather than something I expect to be a big hit, financially or otherwise.
It looks like a great first game with much more of a slick vibe than mine had, probably because you had the good sense to keep your assets simple. That said, before I download, what's with the permissions?
> This app has access to: > Photos/Media/Files
> read the contents of your USB storage > modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
> Storage
> read the contents of your USB storage > modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Neat, I'm sure you have plenty of suggestions/requests already but I'll throw my hat in the ring just in case you end up wanting to do more than the 10 or so.
Beijing Crosswalk is my first published game. It's a bit rough considering it's the first game I made after doing various tutorial projects, but I think it's decently fun and I'm proud to have actually finished a game of some moderate scale. Small channel or not, a little exposure would be great. It's free and not particularly heavy on ads(one when you die if you've made x progress).
Edit- I feel like I should mention that my wife made all the music herself. She's a novice when it comes to composing but got really into it and I think the 4 or 5 tracks for the game turned out really nicely.