Snooker Knockout Tournament - Origins and What's Up next!

A little more than a year ago...we were mulling over what game should we attempt next. We personally like sports games and enjoy developing them (and of course playing them!) We had tasted mild success with our clay shooting/skeet shooting game (Shooting Sporting Clay - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilemagicgames.shootingsportingclay) with more than 100,000 downloads at that time (now its closer to 500,000) and were hoping to make a quality game that players would like.

Our Sporting Clay sequel 

Our aim was to try and build a community around a game that we had developed from scratch...so we zeroed in on Snooker and began work. It was fairly slow going and we went through a lot of iterations, bug testing, ideas on what should be put in, what should be omitted...a lot of trial and error before finally deciding that its now gone way beyond our scheduled development cycle and we just have to cut out a number of unpolished features (more than a year in development!) A couple of the features that had to be given the boot, were the swerve functionality, the break count and instant Multiplayer. We plan to add them all in regular updates alongwith bug fixes and special rewards for our players.

So, finally by the end of February 2016, we had it out on the itunes store titled Maximum Break (https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/maximum-break-snooker/id1073526259?mt=8) Since its release, the game has remained steady on the itunes store, and has slowly crawled up the ranks to #8 on the itunes store search for "snooker" and we are hoping it will carry on its ascent, fuelled by our small but loyal community of players.

We released the android version around the end of march and that has also seen a slow march up the charts with the game coming up in the Top 10 to Top 20 snooker games on the play store for which we have all our players to thank who are keeping the faith in us and are encouraging us to work hard to make it the best snooker game available.

We have a lot of new updates planned for our game - not the least being a new table, a break counter and a (hopefully) new instant match making system that we will be trialing out, all within the first week of May.

We have a very exciting and unique update coming up for the later part of may - a tournament that no other snooker game on the play store offers yet... and that will be our special surprise and twist and a thank you to EVERYONE who is giving us a chance to come good!

Lastly, in case you are wondering which are the top nations for our game? well here they are!

Photo courtesy - http://thailandtourism.co/en/

1. (by far!) Thailand
2. United Kingdom
3. Pakistan

A shout out to everyone out there - we salute you.

Signing out for this blog post - the next one will be a preview of the special stuff coming your way in May. Till then ... happy snooker to all!

A Snooker Tournament With A Maximum Break - Our Android and iOS Game

We have always been wanting to make the best snooker game on android and itunes. (yep lofty goals but hey you gotta dream big!) After a prolonged development from scratch, we finally decided to put out our Snooker game on the itunes store in February 2016 and titled it Maximum Break (as an ode to the amount of effort put in!) We had really put everything into it but were still not entirely happy with it...still, the constraints of time mean that we have to put something out and then ferret away at making it better...so we let it out to set sail!

Shortly afterwards, we began our port to android and had it done pretty quick but just a couple of days after release got a rude shock when the app was suspended for plagiarism by Google! (we were supposedly aping our own game on itunes!) After a successful appeal and subsequent reinstatement, we were finally on track on android by the end of March 2016. The snooker android app on Play Store had to be titled differently - Snooker Knockout Tournament - owing to the suspension - and perhaps it wasn't a bad thing after all since the name was probably more indicative of the game features!

This blog is all about the difficulties we have faced and how we are trying to make things better for our players all the time. Our goal is to be the best snooker game out there with unique, engaging modes, that we are slowly working on adding to the game. The good thing is that the app has stayed on course - still in the top 20 worldwide for the search keyword "snooker" using purely organic growth. It hasn't had as many downloads but the start seems reasonably encouraging. Will we be able to achieve what we have set out to do? I will list out everything that we try out, as we try out and hopefully by the end of it all, we will have a very happy community of gamers out there!

We would love to hear from all the awesome dedicated players out there as to what they would like to be added to the game, and you can be sure we will do our best to do so.

If our game has piqued your interest, do download the android version here - Snooker Knockout Tournament (Mobile Magic Games) 

and the itunes version here - Maximum Break (Black Cobra Studios) 


Yep its not yet perfect BUT its a labour of love and we intend to make it a superb game.