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KOEX studio
January 13, 2021
2021 goals

2020 passed by pretty quickly and I have some achievements as well as failures.

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

For 2021, I have set some goals but not really 100% keen on fulfilling them because things are always changing. One of my goals is to make smaller games for mobile and web. I starte…

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KOEX studio
November 14, 2020
Goal attained!

Ever since I released ‘There Is No Tomorrow‘ on Steam, I realized that I made a mistake of not finding a publisher. So my goal for 2020 is to find good publishers for my 2 upcoming games, ‘Noosphere‘ & ‘Seduction‘.

During this month of October & Novem…

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KOEX studio
August 12, 2020
What have I been doing? since May

These several months, I have been doing the usual same game development. I am heavily focusing on 2 game projects which one of them will be releasing this year in 2020.

The game is called ‘Seduction‘. Feel free to add it to your wishlist on Steam, it will help make the game easier to se…

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KOEX studio
May 26, 2020
From Unity into Unreal 4

At the beginning of 2020, I begin to start learning on using Unreal Engine. In the beginning, I focused on just watching a bunch of beginners and introduction videos. After some weeks, it is when I tried getting into actually using the software.

I remember when I first learn about Unreal, I was pr…

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KOEX studio
May 03, 2020
What’s happening recently?

Last month I got an interview with South China Sea Post.

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3078760/singaporean-video-game-designer-who-spent-three-years

This interview came after the CNA interview which I think caught the attention. Next week there will also be another interview …

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KOEX studio
March 11, 2020
Work hard and play hard.

Recently I bought 2 games, one of them is a game that I have been wanting to play since 2016. I have been playing that game every day in the midst of developing my games.

I realized that… you really need to have fun and play. The playfulness will inspire you with new ideas and motivation. Bef…

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KOEX studio
February 06, 2020
‘There Is No Tomorrow’ IGN interview

‘There Is No Tomorrow’ was released on Steam this week. https://store.steampowered.com/app/787120/There_Is_No_Tomorrow

So far the sales are not as good as I expected but it is definitely better than all of the release of my previous game.

On top of that, I got an interview and a review…

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KOEX studio
November 21, 2019
Night Terror game

A short new game ‘Night Terror – The School’ coming soon.

Patrons can download the game immediately – https://www.patreon.com/posts/night-terror-31711252

It is a short experimental project that I want to create within a short period of time. The development time is less than a month’s time. So f…

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KOEX studio
November 15, 2019
Legendary Assassin KAL- free to play

A mobile project that took me 2 years to develop but it was developed in between projects so the exact development time is unknown. This was my first mobile project that I started but not my first one to be published on the Play Store.

Play it here – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=c…

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KOEX studio
October 30, 2019
2D and mobile

My first experiment on 2d inside Unity. So far, I am really liking the process of it because it just takes less time and effort to make a scene compare to building it in 3d. This whole scene above excluding the character and the celling lamp is all build from photos and textures.

So a month forwa…

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KOEX studio
September 28, 2019
Multiple Projects

Right now I have 3 game projects is in development. One of them is ‘There Is No Tomorrow’ which is going to be published soon hopefully. While the other 2 projects are still in early to mid development stage.

Actually recently I started ANOTHER project for mobile but now I am pausing the developme…

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KOEX studio
May 05, 2019
New ways to finding references

Found out about this wonderful website known as Sketchfab which you can view the 3d models in a 3d live space. It isn’t something exactly new but the some of the models on Sketchfab are very detailed because they are using photogrammetry to scan real objects into 3d models.

In the past I will be …

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KOEX studio
February 14, 2019
Too much Action games

So far, several of my games projects are all action games such as ‘Starboost EX‘, ‘There is no tomorrow‘, ‘All of ZHEM’ & ‘Legend of the assassin’.

For my future games, I am planning to focus on non-action types such as puzzle & story driven creative games. I learned that making action ga…

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KOEX studio
February 04, 2019
Devlog videos is on!

So I started making devlog videos for my youtube and Patreon. So far I have several videos already recorded and available for viewing on my Patreon page before setting them to public on youtube.

This is something that I can do since I am always working on some projects all the time. Recording whil…

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KOEX studio
December 25, 2018
First releases of demo on Steam

I released a short game demo of AOZ on Steam and the game isn’t on sale yet.

Overall I have gotten over 600 downloads over 2-3 days and wishlists increases by over 1000%. Most of the impressions came from Asia which I suspect is because of the chinese title but still needs more testing to be sure…

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KOEX studio
December 20, 2018
Getting into China’s Weibo

So after researching on China’s market and read some blog posts, I decided to go ahead and created my first Chinese game dev blog on Weibo.

KOEX games Weibo.

I only made a few posts about my assassin platformer game which is set in ancient China. I can write chinese but I still have to use google…

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KOEX studio
December 13, 2018
New project announced & discord

All of Zhem is a project that I have been developing on and off for a few months. After the releasing of ‘Starboost EX’ on Steam early-access, I decided to release a demo version of AOZ on itch.io and gamejolt. Turns out that the game gather quite a big of popularity.

For a month time, there are…

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KOEX studio
November 22, 2018
Early-access experience

I launched my early-access game a few weeks ago. It is my first ever steam released game and early-access game. So far I have only been reading on people’s success and failure stories.

My early-access game on Steam – Starboost EX

So what’s the result and experience I have gotten so far? first, the …

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KOEX studio
November 07, 2018
PUNK-EX 2093 launched on Early-access

 

Hi everyone, PUNK-EX has launched on early-access Steam. It’s been 6 months since developing this game and I am excited to get it out on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/917990/PUNKEX_2093

It is a fast-paced arcade style shooter which basically you played as a ‘Space Ironman’.

The g…

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KOEX studio
November 03, 2018
SEEDS Savior – bad result

Took my mobile game and converted into a web game. Right now it is published on Itch.io

This is my first android game with less than 10 downloads in several months. It could be the result of the lack of marketing but I seen games gotten more downloads even without marketing. Perhaps I made a game…

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KOEX studio
October 05, 2018
IMGA Nominee

I was expecting my game (Legend of the Assassin) to be not nominated but it did!

Check out all the nominees here – http://sea.imgawards.com/winners-nominees/3rd-imga-southeast-asia/


View the full article

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KOEX studio
August 26, 2018
PUNK-EX- space update

Added some new screenshots to the Steam page. This week I was mainly focusing on the space aspect of the game – the space debris and environments. Then and also improving on the character design with additional armors for his legs as well as the store UI.

IndieDB decided to feature my game on the…

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KOEX studio
August 21, 2018
Live on Square Enix Collective!

‘There Is No Tomorrow’ is live on Square Enix Collective!

Vote now on whether you will support the game in future!

On the page, you will see new gameplay videos and shots.

The Process

I applied to SQC (Square Enix Collective) since 6 months ago but was rejected several times. I kept updating my…

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KOEX studio
August 16, 2018
PUNK-EX on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/917990/PUNKEX

PUNK-EX is on Steam now as ‘Coming Soon’. The plan is to launch it in late 2018 as a Early-Access game.

It is a Sci-fi shooter game inspired by my favorite gundam games as well as the popular Mass Effect games.

The gameplay video above is from a f…

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