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One game a week

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Challenge accepted! After removing some things from our personal agendas, we took on the challenge of developing one game every single week starting from the previous one.

The games are going to be very simple, especially the first ones until we get used to the tools, processes and idea development.

Everything from the concept, interactive to the graphics is going to look poor, unfinished and boring, but we also committed to revisit previous week's games from time to time to improve them and make more fun. We are going to use analytics and download stats to drive our decisions so that we need where to focus on.

First game, a simple memory game for kids called Dinos (dinosaurs themed). Code is available on Github (https://github.com/Ponup/dinos) as everything else we do.

Dinos- screenshot

By the way, the game was written in JavaScript/HTML using the Cordova bundler.
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