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 [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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). [...]

A million is undeniably a milestone and so today we note that sometime in the past two weeks, FaceFighter passed one million total downloads, in all of its formats. If we’d been watching closely we’d have trumpeted our success in a press release on the hour of that millionth download … but … well … [...]

It’s been awhile since we done a Militant Optimism award here at Appy Place, and with the release of his latest game — Eyegore’s Eye Blast — now seems a great time to publish our appreciation of Gavin Bowman of Retro Dreamer! The Ulm outlines the creed of Militant Optimism in this blog post, but [...]

A couple nights ago we were happy to report that FaceFighter has been identified as “What’s Hot” by Apple on the U.S. and Canadian App Stores. We crossed our fingers this recognition would help propel FaceFighter up the U.S. sales charts. How did we do? Well, here’s what hourly sales rankings in the U.S. App [...]

It’s been awhile since we did an update, and we had a terrific sales day yesterday, so now seems a good time to bring the Appy Army up to speed on the latest doings here at the Secret Worldwide Headquarters of Appy Entertainment! FACEFIGHTER We’ve gotten a tremendous lift since being selected as a Staff [...]

We Twittered about this stuff last night, but rather than cast such a crunchy update to the vague winds of that ephemeral service, it occured to us that it made more sense to speak of our future plans here before the loyal Appy Army. We’ve been in Stan Lee Overdrive pimping up Appy Newz these [...]

We love Sarge. I want to make that clear. Past blog entries have already shined a light on his more eccentric behaviors. Many of his unique peculiarities may be down to the fact that Sarge has suffered eleven concussions. Those are just the ones he can remember. Concussions are no laughing matter — if your [...]