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 [...]

Face Time

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Our Appy Place blog — and the members of the Loyal Appy Army that support us here — will always be nearest and dearest to our hearts, but we are also trying to establish a bridgehead at a little social networking site you may have heard of, called Facebook. With half-a-billion pairs of eyeballs over [...]

FaceFighter Lite Goes Up A Weight Class!

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Two days and two product announcements here at Appy Place. Today we’re pleased to announce that a major free update for FaceFighter Lite (the free version of everyone’s favorite iPhone fighting game) is now available for download. Following on the heels of email, Facebook, and Twitter integration for FaceFighter Lite some time ago, we have [...]

Moving Day (RSS & Email Subscribers Please Note)

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

We’ve moved this Appy Place blog to a new address: http://www.appygamesblog.com. We’ve done this to improve our search rankings, and to enable some new features for the blog that we will roll out in the months to come. Thanks to the super-secret high-tech ninja team that has been toiling behind the scenes on this change [...]

What They're Playing

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

When you’re an iPhone developer you make a ritual of checking Apple’s iTunes App Store listings when they refresh each Monday night. Even if you don’t have anything new in the market, it’s worth seeing what Apple has chosen to feature each week. It’s also kind of cool to see one of our favorite apps [...]

“What’s Fun About It?”

Monday, March 15th, 2010

(Today at Appy Place, director & editor Michael Mayhew provides this guest column about the making of our video for Appy’s latest game, Tune Runner. For more advice on making great app promotion videos on a startup budget, be sure to read Michael’s previous article.) the director with his very tiny camera So. Greetings from [...]

Riding The Rocket

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

The dust has settled since our mad week at the top of the charts giving our iPhone game FaceFighter away for free, so we thought we’d do a little analysis to see exactly how things panned out. This post will be a bit longer and crunchier than is usual here at Appy Place, so for [...]

For Your Consideration: FaceFighter

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Last week we made a broad pitch for why you should nominate Appy Entertainment’s apps for the 2009 Best App Ever award. We thank all of our readers who voted on our behalf (and if you haven’t you can still do so by hitting those “Nominate” buttons on the right side of our main page). [...]

I Divorced My iPod And Married My iPhone! Okay, Not Really.

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

(Editor’s note: Today at Appy Place we welcome friend-of-Appy and longtime fellow traveler Tom Mason as guest blogger. When Tom isn’t slumming it at our place, you can find him writing about comics and other stuff over at Gear Live, and we heartily recommending reading Tom for his insight and cruel sense of fun. Outside [...]

What We're Playing: Halloween!

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Time for an update to our irregular “What We’re Playing” series, with a focus on Appy Entertainment’s favorite season — Halloween! There is no end to the fine Halloween apps on offer in the App Store, and we don’t even pretend to offer a comprehensive or unbiased view of what you should be playing this [...]