Hey guys, some time since I last talked to you, we have been really busy developing our new game, but it’s finally here, and we believe you will like it as we do!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gloobusStudio.SaveTheEarth

The alien zombies have devoured their last planet and they’re searching for new ones to destroy.
Luckily, our super hero is here to defend our precious Earth against them.
A retro 2D sci-fi shooter with more than 30 incredible and funny weapons and utilities, like teleportation utilities, lighting bolts, super beams, missiles and more!
Endless Armageddon that will take you through 4 different parts of the world where you will be forced to combat monsters in an excitedly terrifying battle for life and death on Earth!

Save The Earth is a side-scrolling arcade shooter which will put you in control of a young, but very courageous and powerful super hero! The objective; defend the Earth from a race of blood-thirsty aliens whom have been traveling from planet to planet, sucking the life out of everything living. In this action-packed, super-adventure, it’s your mission to save the Earth and ultimately destroy the destructive alien creeps with an arsenal of weapons and super powers. Prepare yourself, as these monsters call nowhere home. Their population is vast and it’s headed right for Earth! Everyone you’ve ever known is now relying on you to fend off a devastating attack from space. Will you accept the mission?

☆ Destroy thousands of zombie alien monsters and defend the earth from a galaxy invasion with our cute and adorable super hero.
☆ Use the super special weapons and superpowers to fight and combat the demons from outer space. Hours of fun and action shooting in this non-stop side-scrolling defense game.
☆ For the ones who love retro 2d arcade games with innovative weapons systems, ‘Save The Earth’ combines strategy and physics into a mayhem scrolling game.
☆ Combat the bosses like your favorite superhero would, with cool and fun science fiction weapons such as super beams, lightning bolts, and worm holes or defeat the foe with real weapons such as homing missiles, rockets, fire and much more!
☆ From the creators of ☢Kill The Zombies☢ castle/tower defense game, with more than 450.000 downloads around!

– Destroy thousands of life-leeching aliens and defend the earth from a galaxy invasion with our super awesome super hero!

– Choose from over 30 items and combine up to 5 of your favorite items, weapons, or super powers to defeat the alien scum with awesome weapon combos!

– Hours of fun and action-packed replay value in this non-stop world defense game. To top it off, challenge your friends and other players from around the world with Swarm leaderboards!

– For the ones who love retro 2d arcade games with the innovative weapons system, Save The Earth combines strategy, physics, and an awesome theme into a thrilling side-scrolling shooter.

– Combat alien bosses like your favorite super hero would, with cool and fun science-fiction and real-fiction weapons such as fireballs, homing missiles, storm lighting, rockets, worm holes, teleportation, and much more!

– Fight your way through four different locations on Earth, including the city, the desert, the glaciers, and eventually work your way through the atmosphere and take the fight to space!

Hi guys!

We’ve developed a new app called Romantic And Sex Coupons, and it is available on google play for free!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gloobus.romanticandsexcoupons

It comes with four vouchers categories, romantic, sexual, naughty and others and you can find a great variety of fun and interesting coupons.

Download it now, and surprise your partner with those amazing coupons, we’re sure you will love them!

We’re all ears for addin new coupons so if you have any idea send us an email at hello @ gloobus.net and we will add it in further updates!

These days we’ve been dealing with performance in our game kill the zombies so it is able to run smoothly on older devices, so I wanted to share some tricks with you, some of this tools are Andengine/android related, but the main idea is aplicable to all languages and plataforms.

1. Coding

The first thing to know is that while coding you can apply some rules to all your methods and clases so they are more efficient, this will not affect the performance so much, but in games, even a couple of FPS are very important for the final usr experience.

A thing that improves the performance a lot are the static methods, static methods are those that don’t use any class specific variable, so they can be called without instantiating an object, so if you have a class that has a util function more than a class function, define it as static.

Second thing, use finals allways you can, a final variable is that one that will not be modified, I mean, you can call object methods and change object vars, but you can’t reassing that object to another, it means that the object you instantiate there will be allways that object. In this case, the compiler can optimitzate the code so much.

A very clear way to use the final word, is in function parameters, they don’t usually change in the function itself so you can do it almost in every function.

Use enchanced for loop synaxt, instead of using the classic

for(int i = 0; i< whatever;i++)

use the enchanced for

for(myObject object : myObjectArray)

This for is 3x faster than the normal one.

And finally, use double instead of floats, and instead of ints that will be divided. The compiler computes faster with doubles than floats (Depending on the processor) and for ints, they have to b converted first, then divide, and then converted back (Depending on processors too), so if you want performance, it is better to use doubles

2. Pooling

One of the biggest bottlenecks are the object creation, so you must avoid it inside the game! completely avoid it!! (there is on exception I’ll talk abou it later)

And how to avoid the creation of new objects? easy, recycling them, in andengine there is a GenericPool class especially done for it.

For example in our game, we have stars that have to be collected to buy items, the stars are allways the same, each zombie you kill give you some stars, as the zombies keep apearing, we don’t need to create 1 star for each zombie, we can just create 10 stars, and reuse them. The same for the zombies, weapons, particles.. everything that appears and disapears in the game can be pooled so we don’t have any NEW OBJECT in the update thread

This leads to another thing, preload everything before starting the game, so create all the objects you need and recycle them in the load part of the game, so while playing anything is created, you have it all in memory.

3. Profiling

Finally, the most important thing when you want to improve performance, is to know where the bottlenecks are. To know that you can use a tool, eclipse for examples gives you a good one Traceview with this tool you can see exactly how much cpu time uses each function/class or whatever, this way you can track what is consuming more in you game and go straight to it to improve it.

Another great tool is the Allocation tracker so you can see exactly if there are objects created in you update thread and you can fix them or just add them in a pool so you can recycle them.

I hope this post helps you, and of course, if you have any question, let us know about it, in the other hand, if you know more tips or tricks, tell us and we will do another post with them all

See u!