We have another article over at PocketGamer,biz, hopefully the first in a new series. Click on over to see f0ur ways we try to create happy, enthusiastic, and daily gamers! (Hint: As you are reading our blog, you’ve already discovered one of the four ways!) Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with [...]

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Well over a year ago, we wrote in this blog how we would prefer working in a haunted house to living in a mausoleum. It looks like we got our wish. Here’s a photo of the Appy Ghost. As if life wasn’t interesting enough around here … Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via [...]

Yesterday we noted that an Apple feature for FaceFighter Gold was a fine way to end the week, but today we might have topped even that lofty honor. We clean our Secret Worldwide Headquarters once a month whether it needs it or not. We break out the cleaning supplies and go top to bottom in [...]

Appy Entertainment is seven guys in a rented office over a pub. five of the seven guys, actually in the pub Appy Entertainment is the publisher of ten games for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Appy Entertainment is a self-funded startup. Appy Entertainment is … what, really? Are we an “indy?” Or are we, “The [...]

The guys had a long week, but we hit our deadline and submitted our first iPad app — FaceFighter Face2Face – on Friday. It is still anyone’s guess if Apple with approve the app … we did the best we could without having target hardware in-house, so there are any number of things we might [...]

Long-time readers of Appy Place will remember the delight with which we received an unsolicited sculpture of our beloved Appy mascot from local sculptor Leo Romero. Today, after too long a time, we finally welcomed Leo and his lovely bride Barbara to Appy Entertainment’s Secret Worldwide Headquarters. We enjoyed lunch together down in the pub [...]

Why do we do what we do? Awhile back (nearly a year ago, actually), I wrote bit called “Militant Optimism” — all about how crazy you had to be in order to start a company from scratch, particularly in the Great Recession. Since I blathered about this, 70,000 apps have been added to the app [...]

Appy Entertainment’s Secret Worldwide Headquarters was visited by three generations of the Sargent clan today. And here we see the crew all together … Sarge the Senior, Sarge the Younger, and Sarge: The Next Generation. Sarge himself will return to work in an official capacity next week, but it was good to see the old [...]

We had a couple birthdays at Appy Entertainment’s Secret Worldwide Headquarters last week, with Paul O’Connor blasting well past middle-age on the 29th of September, and Sarge notching another misspent year on October 1st. Given that the birthdays of these two larger-than-life characters fell just a day apart, we of course designated the day in [...]