Archive for July, 2009

23 Jul, 2009

Many Paths

Posted by: jamesj3k In: Random| Sales & Marketing

Well- Casual Connect is over.  What did I learn? As Mike Peronto of Wild Tangent tried to explain with this disturbing Power Point Slide, there are many business models in the game industry.  Exiting this conference, I have realized that the game industry is no different than any other industry.  There are proven models that [...]

10 Jul, 2009

Casual Connect Seattle

Posted by: jamesj3k In: Random

This will be our first year at Casual Connect in Seattle.  I’m looking forward to it a lot. Unfortunately, Tim can’t make it so I’m going alone.  It’s going to be hard to decide which sessions to attend.  I don’t know anyone who is going, but I plan to chat up the Unity 3d crowd [...]

09 Jul, 2009

Paying for Expedited Reviews

Posted by: jamesj3k In: Sales & Marketing

Do you enjoy reading reviews for apps that need to pay money to get reviewed, by reviewers who are getting paid to write them? In an attempt to make everyone happy, honest review sites are chipping away at their credibility by charging for expedited reviews.
As you would expect, part of our marketing strategy for Ms. [...]

08 Jul, 2009

Ms. Chuck 1.1 Fixes Levels, Improves Stability

Posted by: jamesj3k In: News

The latest version of Ms. Chuck is available now in the App Store.  Version 1.1 Includes the following updates:
-Fixed occasional crashing
-Fixed a few unbeatable levels
-Fixed pause issues
In our haste to beat the 3.0 rush (which didn’t work anyway) we let a couple levels slip into the 1.0 release that were not beatable- and for that [...]


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