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Pocket Planes gets a trailer, looks great

by Mike Schramm (May 23rd, 2012)

I first saw Pocket Planes, Nimblebit's next freemium title, running at GDC earlier this year. Being a huge fan of both Pocket Frogs and Tiny Tower, I can't wait to see it in action on my iPhone and iPad. Unfortunately, the game's not out yet (it's still "coming soon"), but Nimblebit has ...

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 ...

Free games and big updates this weekend on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Nov 18th, 2011)

Another day of the holiday season brings a whole lot of great downloads from the App Store. What we saw yesterday was mostly new releases, but here's a list of free games (and free updates) you might want to check out. A whole bunch of great games have gone free for the weekend, including ...

How to: Make your own Bitizen

by Mike Schramm (Jul 17th, 2011)

If you've been playing the app Tiny Tower as much as I have (and since it's free and great, you probably should be), you have likely imagined yourself as a Bitizen, one of the little residents of the floor-by-floor residential and commercial construction that is your own tiny tower. And thanks ...

Tiny Tower picks up a million downloads in four days

by Mike Schramm (Jun 28th, 2011)

Developer Ian Marsh of NimbleBit has been sharing some interesting facts and figures on Twitter about his new app Tiny Tower. Perhaps the most impressive overall is that the pixelated freemium tower simulation game has already gained a million players, despite only being on the App Store for ...

TUAW's Daily App: Tiny Tower

by Mike Schramm (Jun 23rd, 2011)

I actually played Tiny Tower for the first time back at GDC this year -- the guys at NimbleBit kindly showed me an early version of it while they were in the middle of designing the game. The title itself is now out and finished on the App Store, and after having played it for about a week ...

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 ...