As an Indie Game Dev, I know the pain of trying to find a viable solution to not only which game engine do I choose, but which back-end services to I use when it comes to managing leader boards, achievements, analytics, etc. This is why I have decided to build my own tools and share them with the Indie Game Dev world!
Let me introduce you to Popsicle.cloud! Popsicle.cloud will be a one-stop shop for all things Indie Game Dev. From team collaboration tools, to asset management, leader boards, in-game economy, achievements, an indie marketplace to share and sell your games, and everything in between.
This project will be starting soon, and will be providing the basic elements that all Indie Game Devs would want for creating their games. The project will roll out in stages. A basic roadmap is provided below:
Stage 1: Build out a dashboard for managing your games
Stage 2: Build out a simple API that can be communicated with from your games
Stage 3: Add leader board functionality
Stage 4: Add achievement functionality
Stage 5: Add in-game economy
Stage 6: Add team tools (such as asset management)
Stage 7: Build an ad network with easy cash-out
Stage 8: Build out a distribution system
Stage 9: TBD
Now, this is just a rough roadmap, and may change over time with priorities, but, this is the plan for now. Get things slowly working and setup. Once they are setup, perform overall maintenance on them to begin optimizing and enforcing their use case.
I hope you will all come on this journey with me, it's going to be fun... and Delicious!