„Jammers have put down their keyboards, pens and paper. They have stopped eating pizza. Even the organizers have had a chance to get some sleep. This means that Global Game Jam® 2018 has come to an end, and what a weekend it was!” States the official site of Global Game Jam. During the 3 days of the jam 42,800 people participated, spread across 108 countries. Pocket Games members naturally were also involved. We ended up being late completing the game. So eventually we did no

Members of Pocket Games took part in Ludum Dare 40 Game Jam. The theme of this event was “The more you have, the worse it is”. The team consisted of Kristóf, Huba, Norbi as programmers and Dóri, Bálint as graphical artists. The inspiration of the design came from the game, Binding of Isaac. It is a top down 2D view game with many rooms in a dungeon style. The team had 48 hours to design and complete the game from scratch. The idea was to create a dungeon where you fight diffe

The cartoon series Castaways has appeared in many conventions and expos this year with great success. Cartoon Forum is the largest animation expo in Europe, Castaways was the only Hungarian project presented. We got a chance to attend there as the result of a previous event in Trebon(Visegrad Animation Forum), Czech Republic. Where Castaways was awarded with the main prize in the International TV series category. In September Castaways appeared in Touluse, France at the Carto

Musiverse 1.4 is finally here for you to enjoy, so what can you expect from this update? The most exciting features are two new spaceships to choose from, we got our inspiration from the wonderful land of China. The two new ships are Dragon and Panda. The dragon symbolising potent and auspicious powers and the might of this great nation. The Panda is meant to show the softer, loving side of China. We decided that we'd increase the amount of gems your money will get you. Here

Pocket Games members will share their stories and experiences in VR game development. Find out what you need to make VR games. Castaways VR The game is based on an animation series called Castaways. The first episode of the series was created in a pilot program, the funds for twelve more episodes were recently won at a government competition. The work on those has already started. Castaways VR is set to be an educational adventure game and it's audience are mainly children. T

Virtual Reality became a reality over a year ago for the high-end gamers when the Oculus Rift was released on the 28th of March 2016 with a $599 price tag. Shortly its largest competitor, the HTC Vive was also released costing $799. There are a lot of similarities and a lot of differences with these two devices. Has this really made VR-experience a reality for the masses of gamers? The short answer is no. Not many gamers can justify the price yet for these devices and the oth

Presentation about virtual reality game developing.

We are often approached by game reviewers seeking to review and writing an honest article about our games. Castaways VR does not differ in this regard, the folks from The Inner Circle Games Network have taken a look at our game and these are some of the parts they had to say about it. " - Sometimes, less is more. It’s perfectly fine to try and have the player immersed among a virtual shoot-out with high stakes, but if you have too much crammed into a minimal control scheme, d

Musiverse has reached half a million downloads. That is almost the population of Luxembourg, just imagine a whole country's worth of people running around with Musiverse. This is a huge success for the game and the studio. Some interesting facts in no particular order: The top 10 most played songs are all bundled Music mostly by Sanxia. As of today nearly 6000 videos were uploaded by our community to Everyplay. 10 851 ratings showed that Musiverse deserves 4,5 stars. Over 400

Yipp yipp that is right, Castaways VR is now officially published on the Ocolus store. It has already taken the 3rd place in the gallery application section which is amazing. The user feedback is so far very positive, which is no surprise as the dev team worked on it with their heart and passion to deliver the best experience the hardware can handle. We are very excited about seeing how Castaways VR will perform. Hopefully many of the players will like it enough to ask for ep