Child of Eden

It's got a very subtle rhythm element.

Again, Rez did, so it sort of feels similar to that, where the scans are completed on the beat or the pulse, and moving the square cursor around, again, feels very reminiscent of the targeting in Rez or Child of Eden or something like that.

And I just found it really interesting how Fish Lab tries to take the aesthetics of such different experiences but makes them work in a game that's far more stats and number-driven on the back end.

Like, it makes a game that is ostensibly pretty boring about numbers somehow also be about the vibes.

So I asked Claude Code to scan those documents and build a little calculator where it's super easy it's just multiple choice you just tick which store where you're doing business what your business model is whether you're using webshop or native in-app purchase or something else and it'll give you an idea of how much commission you could expect apple or google or a webshop provider could take out of your revenue it's not the finished article so if you have used it and there is a bit of nuance or some other detail missing let me know give it a go see what you think i'm hoping it is useful to people confused by the many different commission rates that apple and google take just go to the site or just google mobilegamer.biz commission calculator and you'll find it Our man in Japan, Gendel Gento, a freelance writer, spoke to Tetsuya Mizuguchi recently about the arrival of Lumines Remastered on mobile.

Legendary game designer, the mind behind Rez, Space Channel 5, Child of Eden, Lumines, of course.

Beefy interview on the site, so I would recommend you read the whole thing.

But the highlights include him saying...