A true legend has passed away: Ralph McQuarrie died on March 3, 2012. All of us at Appy Entertainment are saddened by this news. It doesn’t matter if we are artists, programmers, game designers, or even CFOs: Ralph McQuarrie’s work and vision touched all our lives at a time when our young imaginations were thirsting, [...]

Appy Entertainment will be making two conference appearances in March — hopefully you can come out and meet us! Appy’s Brand Director, Paul O’Connor, will be presenting a talk at GDC 2012 in San Francisco: Premium To Freemium — Pivoting Monetization Method For Best-Selling Apps: The tide is irresistible. The market is speaking with its [...]

Normally we wouldn’t need a lot of encouragement to go see James Bond, Indiana Jones, flying saucers, and cowboys all blended up together in a frothy popcorn-flavored summer movie cocktail … after all, we’re the guys that made Darkwatch! But this week’s pending release of Cowboys & Aliens has a special connection to Appy Entertainment. [...]

After a scandalously long hiatus we present a new Friday With Farzad, where we sneak a peek at the drawing board of Appy Entertainment’s Creative Visual Director, Farzad Varahramyan. Yeah, we know, we need to do these more often … it’s not that we’re short of Fridays, or of work to show you, it’s just [...]

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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 [...]

We previewed this bit of concept art over at our Facebook page (and if you aren’t a member yet, get over there and “like” us now) … but we figured it was worth repeating for those members of the Loyal Appy Army that are blog-only types: This Farzad piece is a sneak from our still [...]

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 [...]

Earlier this week, we made our pitch to the world (and to Dan Grigsby) about why FaceFighter is deserving of year-end awards recognition. Today, we talk up the cause of another game near and dear to our hearts — Zombie Pizza. Adhering to the hallowed tradition that we just made up yesterday, here are five [...]

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 [...]