Archive for October, 2010

Appy Halloween (Again!)

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

We don’t have any fancy art like we did last year — we’re too busy finishing up Trucks & Skulls to be making greeting cards right now — but as Halloween is our birthday here at Appy Entertainment, we did want to pause and wish everyone a happy holiday and a prosperous year. This spooky [...]

Leaps Ahead — Catching Up With Ian Marsh

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Score one for the good guys — local iPhone developer and friend-of-Appy Ian Marsh has added another line to his impressive resume with the release of Pocket Frogs, a breezy, free-to-play delight which lets players breed, trade, and collect colorful virtual frogs. As half of the two-man operation that is Nimblebit (along with his brother, [...]

Riding The Rocket — Again!

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Back in March we experimented with promoting FaceFighter for free via FreeAppADay, and yesterday we did it again. How’s that working out for us? If we rode the rocket in March, yesterday we think we got to the Moon. Our intent with this promotion was to goose FaceFighter downloads, and cross-promote the deluxe version of [...]

FaceFighter Is A FAAD

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

FaceFighter is the featured app over at FreeAppADay today. Normally .99, FaceFighter will be available for the unbeatable price of FREE through the weekend. Why are we giving away our most successful app of all time for free? Well, we’ve enjoyed some success with these kinds of promotions in the past. Second, we’d like to [...]

Sneak Preview: Trucks & Skulls!

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Appy Entertainment is excited to offer a sneak preview of our next game for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch … Trucks & Skulls! This is the physics puzzler you’ve been waiting for! Smash NITRO-BURNING MONSTER TRUCKS into piles of GIANT SKULLS! Join the INSANE STUNT CIRCUS on the TOUR OF DOOM, demolishing steel fortresses on [...]

Apple Feature For All-In-1 ZombieBox

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

It’s a red-letter day for Appy Entertainment! This morning we received news of our ME 2010 Awards nomination, and now we see that Apple has identified our All-In-1 ZombieBox as “New & Noteworthy” in the iTunes store. It’s like Christmas in October (if your stocking was stuffed full of brains and blood!). Unlike the Paid [...]

Shortlisted!

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Appy Entertainment learned this morning that we have made the final ballot for ME Awards 2010, in the category of “Best App Developer.” Now in their fifth year, the ME Awards evening rewards companies doing outstanding things in the mobile content space. Also nominated in our category are Grapple, Golden Gekko, Handmark, UsTwo, and Yuza. [...]

Thinking Inside The Box

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

We have an interview over at PocketGamer.biz today offering insight on our brand-new All-In-1 ZombieBox. Mouse on over to discover more about long versus thin tails, why contact addresses shouldn’t be treated like state secrets, how inclusion in the All-In-1 ZombieBox unexpectedly boosted sales of the stand-alone versions of some apps, and more! Bookmark on [...]

Noteworthy Beginnings

Monday, October 4th, 2010

In case you missed it … we launched a new app on Friday. The All-In-1 ZombieBox packs ten full-featured zombie apps into one .99 USD app. Our first weekend marked a solid start. With zero advance publicity, the app vaulted to the mid-50 ranks in the paid “Adventure Game” category in big markets around the [...]

Announcing The All-In-1 ZombieBox

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Appy Entertainment is pleased to announce the first release in our Appy Spotlight line of 3rd-party published apps. The All-In-1 ZombieBox Gives You Ten Fully-Featured Zombie Apps For .99 … Get Ten Full Zombies Apps For The Price Of One! Halloween comes early with this horde of ten zombie apps for one low price! Every [...]