JulianFarrior Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Daily iPad App: Ragdoll Blaster 3 goes in a new direction

by Mike Schramm (Feb 13th, 2012)

I first came across Backflip Studios' Julian Farrior back at GDC a few years ago. At the time, his company's biggest title was called Paper Toss, and he also had a game in the store called Ragdoll Blaster, a physics puzzler where you threw dummies out of a cannon. Back then, Farrior talked at ...

GDC 2011: Backflip Studios' Boss Battles, Army of Darkness Defense, and more

by Mike Schramm (Mar 6th, 2011)

Backflip Studios' Julian Farrior was here in attendance at GDC 2011 this week. His company has been doing quite well lately, and he tells me that they've recently hit 85 million downloads across all of their free apps, with over 23 million monthly active users. In plain terms, that means that ...

TUAW's Daily App: Strike Knight

by Mike Schramm (May 18th, 2010)

I saw Backflip Studios' Julian Farrior speak at GDC earlier this year, and while there, he showed a few upcoming App Store games of his in a quick slide. Strike Knight was one of those, and it's now out in the App Store in all of its glory. It's a simple shuffleboard bowler game -- you grab a puck ...