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January 27th, 2012
Google Insights: DragonVale vs CityVille
According to Google Insights, there are now more Google searches for DragonVale, Backflip Studios’ Top Grossing iOS app (blue line above), than there are for CityVille, Zynga’s most popular Facebook app (red line above). Backflip Studios is an indie game developer with 35 employees (including me). Zynga is a publicly traded company with over 2,500 employees.
January 26th, 2012
Coming Soon!
Coming soon to an iPhone and iPad near you from Backflip Studios.
December 20th, 2011
December 18th, 2011
December 10th, 2011
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Otis
We saw Jay-Z gambling late last night at the Bellagio. Big pimpin’.
December 8th, 2011
Paper Toss 2.0
We launched Paper Toss 2.0 for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch last night. The original Paper Toss is one of the most downloaded apps of all time with over 100 million installs worldwide. Not too shabby for a small, independent startup with no venture funding. The new app includes co-worker characters that you can torment, grenades, bananas, and other new tossables, moving targets & more. If you’ve got an Apple device and some time to kill, check out Paper Toss 2.0. It don’t cost nothin’.
November 14th, 2011
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space
November 9th, 2011
“The days of paying $25, or more, for a cartridge at a retail store may soon end,” says Flurry. Bad news for Nintendo & Sony, but great news for hot mobile games companies like the one I work for, Backflip Studios. Backflip is a small, 30-person, highly profitable company with over 150 million downloads, about 30 million active players per month, and we’re growing like crazy thanks to distribution through Apple and Android devices.
Save The Date Decoder Glasses
The Save The Date card for our wedding included a pair of red shades that you needed to put on to decode the invite like the one pictured above. It also included a request for invitees to email a picture of themselves wearing the glasses to a special email address that posted them on our wedding website. These are just a few of the photo responses we received. Interactive & fun! Thanks to Ming Thompson at Pounding Mill Press for working with us on the design.
