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Pocket Frogs getting a big update this week

by Mike Schramm (Oct 29th, 2012)

NimbleBit has had two big freemium hits now with both Pocket Planes and (before that) Tiny Tower, but my favorite of the company's titles is still Pocket Frogs, where brothers and developers David and Ian Marsh first cut their teeth on the generous freemium gameplay they're now known for. And ...

NimbleBit talks about the release of Pocket Planes, and what's next

by Mike Schramm (Jun 14th, 2012)

Brothers Ian and David Marsh's NimbleBit is finally releasing its latest freemium title today (following on the company's success with Pocket Frogs and then the hugely popular Tiny Tower) called Pocket Planes. The app borrows Tiny Tower's little pixelated denizens and moves them over into a ...

NimbleBit builds a tiny empire of quality freemium apps

by Mike Schramm (Mar 8th, 2012)

NimbleBit's David Marsh kindly met with me at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week. While he's not interested in discussing the Zynga/Tiny Tower fiasco (a game he first showed me at GDC last year), the public's interest in that story is understandable. Zynga is a social company that uses ...

NimbleBit comments on popularity of Tiny Tower, working on new IP

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2011)

Inside Mobile Apps has an interview with the winners of Apple's choice for best iPhone game of the year, David and Ian Marsh of NimbleBit. I was a huge fan of their freemium title Pocket Frogs, but it's their latest release, Tiny Tower, that has earned a lot of solid accolades (not to mention a ...

GDC 2011: NimbleBit on Pocket Frogs and Tiny Tower

by Mike Schramm (Mar 8th, 2011)

I've been a fan of twin brothers Ian and David Marsh and their iOS games company NimbleBit for quite a while now, so I was glad to finally meet them in person at GDC last week. The brothers Marsh sat down to chat with me about how the company came about, what they thought of the response to ...

Pocket Frogs hits 3 million downloads, 350k daily active users

by Mike Schramm (Dec 1st, 2010)

NimbleBit developer Ian Marsh tweeted a link to a promotional infographic about popular app Pocket Frogs yesterday, and the title has apparently reached a whopping three million downloads in just ten weeks on the App Store. Daily active users have peaked at 350,000, which is a pretty sizable number ...

NimbleBit: Over half a million playing Pocket Frogs, "3-4%" buying in-app purchases

by Mike Schramm (Sep 20th, 2010)

I've been playing NimbleBit's freemium Pocket Frogs game since it was released last week, and apparently I'm not the only one -- Ian Marsh tells TUAW that the game has been downloaded by half a million people so far. The company is also seeing 200K daily active users, and while Marsh couldn't share ...

TUAW preview: NimbleBit's Pocket Frogs

by Mike Schramm (Sep 14th, 2010)

Since I got my new iPhone 4 a few weeks back, I've been playing more games than ever on Apple's little handheld. I just recently got back into Ngmoco's We Rule. It's probably the pinnacle of the "freemium" genre on the iPhone so far. It's free to play, very social, and very much based on timed ...