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How Ravenous Games satisfies the hunger for simple titles on the iPhone

Independent developer Ravenous Games created one of our favorite games of the year so far with its 99-cent title League Of Evil. Simple and accessible, the 8-bit platformer hosts 50 stages of two-dimensional fun. As described by Appolicious Advisor Phil Hornshaw in his Games of the Week post upon r ... Full Article »

July 16, 2011 1:00pm

Fooducate founder on the ingredients of a successful iPhone app

As we know, some titles for iOS and Android devices are more appetizing than others. One of our favorites is Fooducate, which informs users about the nutritional benefits and hazards of everything we put in our mouths. As Appolicious Advisor Kyle Ripley describes Fooducate’s iPhone app in his rev ... Full Article »

July 16, 2011 8:00am

How Kona’s Crate publisher is creating an eco-system for independent game developers

When Appolicious reviewer Phil Hornshaw identifies a premise he hasn’t seen before in a physics puzzler, the game has something original to offer. This is the case with Kona’s Crate, which Hornshaw describes as “complex, challenging... and all about manipulating rockets using the touchscreen.â ... Full Article »

July 2, 2011 12:00pm

How and why Threadless stitched together an official iPhone app

While Threadless in many ways pioneered the notion of crowdsource-based e-commerce, the company waited until May of this year to develop and release its official iPhone app. Longtime members and others just catching on will like what they have to see. Threadless became a national phenomenon invitin ... Full Article »

July 2, 2011 8:00am

Appolicious Meet the Members: Eric Swayne (@eswayne)

Eric Swayne (@eswayne), from Denton, TX, is Director of Social Analytics at M/A/R/C Research. He loves social media, great coffee and original recipe Dr Pepper. Check out his lists of apps that do amazing things with the iPhone’s mic and apps guaranteed to keep a preschooler distracted, or his top ... Full Article »

June 25, 2011 4:00pm

How Cloud Browse makes Flash accessible on iOS devices

Among the biggest gripes consumers have about iOS devices is their inability to support Flash-based technologies. While you shouldn’t hold your breath and wait for Apple to reconsider, one MIT-based startup has a pretty compelling workaround. AlwaysOn Technologies last March came out with its Clo ... Full Article »

June 25, 2011 12:00pm

With a focus on families, Photogram debuts new iPhone app

As a new parent, I am always searching for the most convenient ways to share pictures with select groups of family and friends. The trick is to find a platform that is just as accessible to my 93-year-old grandmother as it is my teenage hipster nephew. Sending attachments via email is too cumbersom ... Full Article »

June 16, 2011 2:05am

Appolicious Meet the Members: Dave Metzener (@vesperdem)

Dave Metzener (@vesperdem), a software developer from Manchester, Missouri, has the Appolicious Top 10 Collector Badge with over 3400 apps in his app library. He’s been an Apple fan since 1979, when he typed away at his Apple ][. 1. Tell us about yourself - where you live, your job, things you li ... Full Article »

June 4, 2011 4:00pm

How Starbucks manages its mobile marketing blend

Just as Starbucks tries to make the customer experience consistent throughout its 6,800 U.S. company operated stores, the company has similarly uniform standards for its mobile applications. Thus it is no surprise that while Starbucks has the free myStarbucks and Starbucks Card Mobile apps for the ... Full Article »

June 4, 2011 12:00pm

Tank Hero developers on bringing their popular Android game to iOS devices

The wildly popular combat/puzzle Android game Tank Hero made it to the iTunes App Store this week. In this edition of Game Theory, we check in Mark Ng and Alkas Baybas of ClapFoot games, which developed the title. The Canadian game developers talk about the advantages of marketing an app on Android ... Full Article »

June 4, 2011 8:00am


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