u/CoinMongerer

Hey Mobile Gamers (Specifically those on Android!)!

I've been making this for the last 10 months or so and it finally went live on Google Play today. I wanted to share it here and let you all try it and most likely roast me on all the ways in which i went wrong lol.

Each level is supposed to resemble a shift on a factory belt. Beans come towards you and you flick beans from your tray at the ones that match. Solo matches count, and also if yo hit a group of two or more the whole lot pops. Let too many slip past unsorted, however, and it's game over.

Every level you clear grows you further up a giant beanstalk, where every 15 levels you stumble across a giant in a candy castle in the sky waiting to ambush you. The game flips into a full boss fight. You stand on one cloud lobbing beans at its head while it hurls lightning, ice and other themed projectiles back at you, and you have to beat it to claim the magic bean it's guarding. There are seven giants so far. They're very long and time consuming to make but would love to put more time into making more f this is successful. I also have toyed with the idea of alien bosses where they wiz around on floating UFO platforms and you have to jump between other moving floating platforms to collect beans and wang them at the aliens (Yes, the plan is for the beanstalk to grow into space and into other planets' atmospheres, and other celestial scenes eventually.

On the way up, bonus levels branch off the beanstalk, and they play completely differently. They're optional, but quite fun to be honest.

Then there's Overtime, an endless runner style / training mode where the belt just keeps going until you're overwhelmed. It has daily, weekly and monthly leaderboards if you want to see how you stack up against everyone else.

On ads, since I know it's the first thing people ask:

• It's free, and there are no ads to actually play the game, ever.
• There are optional ads that you can watch that give you things like power-ups.
• There are no in-app purchases, but I might make a paid for version where you can get power-ups on every level as default without having to watch ads.

I'd really appreciate any feedback, good or bad. This is the first time it's been in front of people who aren't me or my testers, so I'm sure there's stuff I've missed.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beanslinger.game

Thanks a million!

Fish Finger: Shark Chase

Playable Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishfinger.game

Platform: Android only right now but will expand to IOS soon.

I'm genuinely buzzing about this. This is the first game I've ever made in my life (fun and basic little endless runner in HTML5!). Never released anything before, taught myself as I went, and a few months later it's actually a real thing sitting on the Play Store with my name on it (my dev pseudonym - "Dee Shwang" - at least).

You play as a fish trying to survive in the ocean while progressively terrifying things try to eat you or zap you or hook you or curse you. There's bosses you've got to beat (an orca, a harpoon diver, a trawler net, an anglerfish, and a giant squid). You dodge hazards, dive deeper, stumble into hidden zones, and every so often you find these stupidly rare collectible pearls and artifacts, all varying in rarity and likelihood to show up during the run (there's a literal Poseidon's Trident hidden in there, though the chances of having that show up on any given run are about 50,000:1 - so good luck!).

There's a global weekly leaderboard that resets every week, so it's not just chasing one all-time high score you'll never touch again - you get a fresh shot at the top every week against real players (if people end up playing it lol!). If the game gets enough people playing it, I'd love to start doing actual weekly prizes for whoever tops it. No promises on that yet, it's very much a "let's see if this takes off first" kind of idea, but it's genuinely something I've been thinknig about.

All the voice lines in the game are me! Every silly announcer line, the leaderboard callouts ("TOP SCORE!", "SECOND PLACE" etc), all of it. I recorded them on my phone, in my room, doing dumb voices, and cleaned them up myself. If you play it, it will either make you laugh or cringe. Never felt goofier than I did doing that, not gonna lie!

I built the whole thing myself too. No team, no budget, just me figuring out game dev from scratch. It's free, it's got ads but I made sure they're optional/rewarded rather than shoved in your face every 30 seconds. I appreciate the hate for ads, believe me, but I'm out here just trying to set myself modestly free (I don't want to be a postman forever guys!!!)

I just genuinely want people to play it and tell me what they think. Good, bad, "this part is annoying," all of it. First game, so I know it's not perfect, but I'd love real feedback from people who actually play a lot of mobile games

Gen AI usage - I used Gen AI to create some of the game's characters and artwork (as static PNG files), the logic was MOSTLY me.