Archive for January, 2009

Confessions of a Twitter Spammer

Friday, January 30th, 2009

In the last week or so I’ve been delving deeper into Twitter. I’ve been on the site for several months, but it wasn’t until joining a list of iPhone developers on Twitter that the service hit any kind of critical mass for me. Now I’ve got my ear tuned to an interesting channel and suddenly [...]

Omens & Portents

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Appy Entertainment is the subject of an in-depth interview over at Variety’s Cut Scene blog this morning — check it out. This link, along with several others, is available on our press links page. Yesterday we had a full day retreat-in-the-office here at Appy’s Secret Worldwide Headquarters. On the agenda: review the alpha build of [...]

El Zombo Goes To Hollywood

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

(Note: First-time visitors to Appy Place click here for more game culture, startup stories, development tales, movie and book reviews, and more …) Big kudos to friend-of-Appy Dave Wilkins and creative partner Kevin Munroe on news that their Dark Horse comic series El Zombo is headed to the silver screen! Dave was a stand-out 3D [...]

Appy Entertainment Wins The Great Indie Bake-Off!

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

The only thing sweeter than Appy’s cake is the taste of victory! It is with equal measures of shame and delight that we learn Appy Entertainment has won the Great Indie Bake-Off! (behold the terrible outsourced cakey majesty of … Appy!) The details are at Antair Games. Loyal readers of Appy Place will know that [...]

Branded!

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Last week we looked at why Appy decided to roll their own PR and marketing. Today, we take a look at creation of the Appy brand. Or, at least, we look at our own amateur attempts to create the Appy brand. Remember that we are figuring this out as we go along, which means the [...]

NOT At The Movies: Inkheart

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

PAUL: Welcome back to NOT At The Movies, where we make totally unfair snap judgments about movies we haven’t seen based on crap we glean from the trailer, and stuff we just make up. We’ve finally recovered from not seeing Tom Cruise’s eyepatch movie, so today we run down the reasons we WON’T be seeing [...]

Appy Place Subscription Drive!

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

You’ve read our blog, and puzzled over what the hell we’re doing here at Appy Entertainment (and if you figure it out — let me know). You’ve seen our cake (and voted for it, right?), laughed at the freakish images in our photostream, and downloaded our wallpaper. All we’ve asked in return is a few [...]

PR Blitz!

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

With no apologies to The Sweet … And the man at the back said everyone attack And it turned into a PR blitz And the girl in the corner said boy, I wanna warn ya It’ll turn into a PR blitz PR blitz PR blitz PR blitz PR blitz [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4nVKn0l2mo] There are things you shouldn’t [...]

The Great Indie Bake-Off Is On!

Monday, January 19th, 2009

You saw our cake last week, and maybe even witnessed it’s gruesome end via our Flickr photostream … now is your chance to cast your vote for Appy’s cakey immortality. That’s right, our cake is set to join the great cakes of history, and the power resides under YOUR mouse finger! Click over to the [...]

They Call Him "Dr. No"

Friday, January 16th, 2009

We’ve always been one big Appy family here at the Worldwide Secret Headquarters of Appy Entertainment, and I’m proud to announce that our family has grown a little larger with the addition of Rick Olafsson as our Chief Financial Officer. We decided it was time for some adult supervision around here, and as Rick did [...]