Archive for May, 2011

FaceFighter Gold Featured On Android Market!

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

Hot on the heels of our weekend sale comes news that FaceFighter Gold for Android is featured on Android Market! This is welcome news as it will help expose our game to legions of new players on Android. It also keeps our streak alive of scoring feature placement for Appy’s original IP. After several times [...]

FaceFighter Android Weekend Sale

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

In partnership with our friends at SmartApps Deal of the Day, FaceFighter Gold for Android is on sale all weekend long for .99! FaceFighter is the fast-paced and fun first-person fighting game where your friends are your foes! Any photo becomes a furious fighting opponent in seconds — take ‘em on with crazy kung fu [...]

iKids

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Continuing our round of recent speaking engagements, Appy Entertainment will be presenting a talk and appearing on a panel at iKids in Santa Monica, CA, on June 2nd.     Chris Ulm will be part of the “Great Model Debate: Brand vs. Original” panel, looking at the pros and cons of creating original properties versus [...]

Introducing Casey’s Contraptions!

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

It’s an embarrassment of riches here at Appy Place, as we today have not one but TWO terrific new games to recommend. Casey’s Contraptions is the eagerly-anticipated new game from local developer and friend-of-Appy, Snappy Touch. In Casey’s Contraptions, you solve physics-based puzzles by positioning cartoony household objects on the play field, then set them [...]

Be A Football Hero With iQuarterback 2!

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

New on the App Store this week is iQuarterback 2, an entirely new iPad game from fuzzycube software, recently reborn under Jeff Ruediger and Pete Parisi. We’ve played  early builds of Pete and Jeff’s game here at our Secret Worldwide Headquarters, and we’re all geeked up for the game’s official release! Use your rifle-armed quarterback [...]

Survival Theory

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Appy Entertainment CEO Chris Ulm is quoted over at Scott Steinberg’s Game Theory blog today. In an article entitled, Video Game Business Strategy: New Secrets To Survival, Ulm says, “For Appy, it’s all about building a running dialogue with fans, which creates a robust direct marketing channel that may someday be capable of self-sustaining any [...]

Appy IGDA FTW!

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Our charm offensive continues with a talk before the San Diego chapter of the IGDA this Thursday. We will be blithering on about app marketing in front of an audience that thinks we are presenting something of value. Ha! The talk is free and there will be genuine networking, as well as a guy from [...]

Meet Appy At The Canadian Games Conference!

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Appy Entertainment will be attending the Canadian Games C0nference in Vancouver, BC, on May 19th & 20th. Emmanuel Valdez and Chris Ulm will be in attendance, and they’ll also be giving a talk –  The Incredible Shrinking Project: Transitioning From AAA Console Game Development To The iPhone. If you’re going to be at the show, [...]