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Generating an app's icon in all necessary sizes for both Android and iOS can be really time consuming and boring. It would be ok to do this work manually if you'd only have to do it once for each app just before release. Unfortunately that's not the case since the final app icon is most likely something that evolves through iteration. Needless to say, there is time to save by finding an efficient way to automate the icon generation. There are many tools out there that can help out with this. I've tried a couple of them and they've all worked just fine. The problem is that I've found that they don't actually save me that much time in the end. For iOS, you need a completely square icon and iTunes/iOS will handle the rounding of the corners for you. For Android on the other hand, you have complete freedom when designing the shape of your icon. I prefer to have my Android icon look as similar to the iOS icon as possible, which means that I'll have to cre...

Ice Trap is getting closer to release. The game engine is almost complete and runs really smooth on all the devices I've tested on so far, including a crappy old Asus Android pad. The number of levels are increasing at a steady pace much thanks to the new level editor, and the graphics are also starting to feel really good and fitting for the overall atmosphere of the game. Some work still remain, such as adding music and sound effects, some social media features, and finalizing the levels design, finding just the perfect overall difficulty curve. Today I felt that it was time to spend some hours on polishing the exterior of the game, so I decided to create a brand new app icon, and also set up a simple landing page allowing people to register for email notifications about important news such as release dates. Ice Trap app icon If you visit the Ice Trap landing page , please let me know what you think about it. Especially if you notice any problems displaying it on you...