Check the premieres and other trailers in #GamingBuddy to easily wishlist the games to keep track when they *finally* release 😀

#gaming #tga2025 #thegameawards2025 #indieDev

https://gamingbuddy.eu/events/907

Got one of those kangaroo shirts. Baby has been in there for about 4 hours, peacefully sleeping while I play Overwatch.

This thing fuckin' rocks.

:overwatch: 🍼

#overwatch #baby #newborn #gamingbuddy

If nothing else #GamingBuddy helps me find great games to play. I first found Wheel World in 2023 🤯

I think it was some showcase or something like that...

Some games are hard to miss, but I could probably point to at least five that I found thanks to the app (either by browsing, updating the featured list etc..)

#gaming #indieDev #iOSDev

One more rating to cross 300 ratings for #GamingBuddy 🎉

The average is 4.8 which I think is pretty good.

#iOSDev #indieDev #gaming

I have recently spent quite a lot of time on new #GamingBuddy onboarding. I thought it was quite nice but now I am not so sure...

Previously I had just few static screens with few "cards" on each - it was very text heavy.

I am looking for feedback - you don't need the app - the video below shows how the current flow looks like 🙂

Thanks!

#gaming #iOSDev #indieDev

I am looking for some "UX" feedback for #GamingBuddy 🙏

The app allows people to categorize games by status like Playing, Backlog or Finished (+ some more).

Since you can re-play already finished game, this list will only show games that are *currently* marked as finished. (see screenshot)

I am thinking having separate list of all the finished games might be a good idea...

Is it? How it should be named? Where should be the entry?

Thanks!

#indieDev #iOSDev

Latest #GamingBuddy update is live. This is mostly fixes/refinements for the previous v4 but also has a some new stuff 🎉

Also hope to improve this SwiftUI mini project for generating the changelog image...

#iOSDev #indieDev #gaming

I thought my new #GamingBuddy onboarding was pretty great...

Until I had UX Writing lab and now I see all the problems with it 😅

#indieDev #wwdc25

Just found a problem with my "Follow developers" feature in #GamingBuddy.

This let's you follow particular company and get notification when there is new game announced.

The problem happens when game is announced four months ago for example, but IGDB doesn't have the developer data which gets added months later and then it seems like new game from that company 🙃

#indieDev

Anyone interested in helping me test large #GamingBuddy update? It adds iCloud sync, iPad version, better favorite games management and more. 🎉 🙂

The TestFlight is currenly invite-only.

#gaming #iOSDev #TestFlight

https://nemecek.be/blog/211/gamingbuddy-version-40-testflight-is-available

So I was just trying to frantically disable it. I had switch for the frontend in admin to turn it off but if they are using it in automated fashion that might not work so the POST logic now returns 404...

Back in 2023 I was kind of hoping for this to go viral and maybe boost #GamingBuddy..

Based on my calculations back then it should have been relatively cheap.

Anyone with Apple TV interested in some #TestFlight? 😀

This is "GamingBuddy TV" which I have been working on since late Dec 2024. I mainly wanted easy way to play the recent trailers on the big screen.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/G6NHbVkh

#indieDev #gaming #GamingBuddy

I have new public #GamingBuddy #TestFlight with the new video playback experience and other improvements 🎉

#iosdev #indieDev

https://testflight.apple.com/join/K4P6qs5U

When not being able to implement something turns out to be a blessing...

Previously I only had small buttons to play newly showcased trailers for the events and couldn't make it to play fullsceen with new package I am using.

So I tried reusing this inline component from game detail and the result seems much better.

The reason for buttons was that I thought it is often the case that game has more than one video during event which turned out to be super rare 😅

#iOSdev #gamingbuddy #indieDev

#GamingBuddy daily downloads dropped sgain below 10 for the past week and that is just so demotivating 😢

I don’t want million dollar app. Just something at least approaching sustainability.

#indieDev #iOSDev

#GamingBuddy 3.2 is officialy out 🎉

- Best Games (since 2016)
- Franchise & Company info on game detail
- Browse by genres & game modes
- New details in Favorites, "Activity" view
- All release date statuses supported

See the hashtag for details 🙂

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gamingbuddy-find-new-games/id6447783408

#gaming #iOSDev #indiedev

Probably the best (pun intended) new addition in #GamingBuddy 3.2 🙂

Brand-new section "Best Games" listing all the OpenCritic "Mighty" games since 2016.

#gaming #iOSDev

Also new in #GamingBuddy 3.2: Details about companies. 🔎

This way you can easily find more games from developer or publisher.

#gaming #iOSDev

Another new addition that will land soon in #GamingBuddy update 3.2 is the ability to browse all the games by game modes or genres.

The games are sorted from newest and filtered based on preferred platforms 🙂

#gaming #iOSDev

#GamingBuddy 3.2 will also improve Favorites ⭐

For example with the ability to quickly change the status with this new component that also shows the last date changed.

Additionally you will be able to see "Activity" with history of all the changes. And yes it took me almost 50 days to finish Astro Bot 🙃

PS: I realized that there are fewer days until (hopefully) the release than new stuff I want to share 😬 So there will be more posts until then.

#Gaming #iOSDev #indieDev