Do you read the privacy policy for an app or website your child uses? I do. I don’t enjoy reading privacy policies written in cryptic legalese but I force myself to do it. The least I want to know is how collected information will be monetized. Is it going to be used to sell me […]
Is iOS ecosystem healthy?
Neil Cybart’s article on declining iPad sales is astute and worth reading. Neil in this post observes that iPad is mostly used as a device to consume contents. To grow sales again, Apple need to transform iPad in to a content creation device. By selling a device that is truly designed from the ground-up with […]
Hallows Thieves are year old this Hallow...
Time waits for no one, this Halloween our evil witch and her loyal ghosts turned year old. Seems like just yesterday when we released our iPad only Halloween game for kids, HallowsThieves. Just today I accidentally discovered that our little game was mentioned on iPad Kids website last month, thank you Jess for including our app in your […]
Halloween is around the corner
Did you start putting up Halloween decorations yet? In our neighborhood some families already did. As per as we are concerned not really. Having said that here Manas’s video from few months back when we released HallowsThieves kids game on Walpurgis Night. Do consider buying this fun game for some Halloween fun this year.
HallowsThieves – new build for Walpurgis
As I said in my previous post, we decided to update our HallowsThieves kids game for Walpurgis Night. Walpurgis Night or Walpurgisnacht as in German shares many of the traditions of Hallloween hence the updates at this time of the year. So what’s new then? Well we rebuilt the game for iOS 6. + and […]
iPad mini and HallowsThieves
Seems like yesterday when I posted our thoughts around dealing with various iPad screen resolutions in “iOS app ecosystem and shiny new Apple gadget launch” post. Month has gone, Halloween is almost here, we sold few copies of HallowsThieves, and now last week or so we were wondering again how our game will look like on iPad mini. Fortunately […]
HallowsThieves – the evil laugh story
Other than graphics in the HallowsThieves kids iPad only Halloween game we knew that we needed good background music as well as sound for the witch, cat and the ghosts. We decided to record all the sounds on our own rather than using computer generated sound. I am so glad that we decided to do so. […]
HallowsThieves – flyer we created
flyer-hallowsthievesWe are trying to get the word out and part of that is to tell our friends and neighbors about the HallowsThieves via flyer. This is what we are sending out to our friends and neighbors…hope you will like it too. flyer-hallowsthieves
HallowsThieves – creating new levels of
We were very happy with the game till Rick suggested we can make game more exciting by making some parameters configurable. Question was can we still meet our deadline of September 2012 release. Rick thought we had a good shot at it and it was worth doing so that’s what we did. Following parameters are […]
iOS app ecosystem and shiny new Apple ga...
Almost a year back when we started working on the HallowsThieves iPad-only kids Halloween game, other than software tools we knew that we needed to invest in target device, iPad for testing. The question was: other than iPad 2, do we need to budget and plan for the rumored upcoming iPad 3. Considering we wanted […]