I've been so busy finishing up my latest game that I haven't had time to write any posts. I love bullet points so why don't I use some bullet points: My new game is coming soon. Find out more here: facebook.com/WarGamesMovie I've been meeting with several of the awesome teams from the Indie Open House. They're all working on games that are super rad. Check out [...]
As I'm getting to the end of my project and wanting to continually push back deadlines so that I can add a "ton of totally sweet content" it's easy to get sucked into this monitor and forget about the real world. There's so much out there. I went to play tennis with a friend today. I don't even play tennis, but now I want to [...]
I'm using Flurry in my apps to track events. Here's a rundown of the iOS device usage statistics for one of my paid games for the last 6 months. From what I can find on Google the "Apple iOS4Device" is an iPhone 4. It seems like the iPhone 3GS would have a bigger share seeing as how it's basically a free phone now. BUT (as my friend Riley [...]
Jake from Grey Alien Games tweeted the question "Total GDC Cost was $1500. What was yours? (IGS Ticket, Flight, Accommodation, Food/Travel/Parties)." Mine was roughly $100, which is probably about the same as I would have spent if the Game Developer Conference didn't happen. Luckily, the conference is about a 25 minute walk from my apartment and my friend let me borrow a GDC pass so [...]
It's GDC this week and so far it's been pretty wild. We went to the Touch Arcade party last night, hit up the 8bitSF show, rocked out to Crashfaster and met some cool people from Gaijin, Magical Time Bean, Backflip, Double Fine, Capy, Tiger Style. I even talked to a girl named Siri who was an actual human female and not a robot in the cloud. I'm [...]
Droopy Blocks is now available for the iPad. It's the debut release from our friends over at Mechanical Butterfly Studios. You can tell a lot of time went into making this game even by just watching the intro video. The gameplay has a unique puzzling element to it where your goal for each level is to stretch a melted droopy block back into shape. It's [...]