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22cans' lead game designer talks about Curiosity and moving forward to Godus

by Mike Schramm (Dec 13th, 2012)

Gary Leach is the lead game engineer at 22cans, which you probably know by now is game designer Peter Molyneux's experimental startup aiming to put together 22 different game experiences before actually releasing a full title. So far, 22cans has favored the iOS and Mac platforms with their ...

Galcon 2 gets a Kickstarter

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2012)

Phil Hassey is a very talented iOS developer who we've covered before. Probably his biggest game is Galcon, a sort of streamlined real-time strategy game that he's seen a lot of success with on iOS. He's actually made Galcon a few times before and released it on a number of other platforms ...

Sword of Fargoal 2 and the iControlPad 2 both head to Kickstarter

by Mike Schramm (Sep 17th, 2012)

Two big followup iPhone projects are looking to Kickstarter for funding. First up, the developers of Sword of Fargoal 2 have launched a US$50,000 campaign. The first game in that series was a relatively early hit on iPhone. The sequel has a much larger scope and is expected to hit several ...

Discovery Bay Games raises $15M for iOS "Appcessories"

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 21st, 2012)

Seattle-based Discovery Bay Games, a board game company turned iOS accessory maker, announced today it has raised $15 million in Series B funding, according to a report in TechCrunch. Big name investors include accessory maker Logitech and Trilogy Equity Partners, an investment firm led by ...

Jason Citron picks up funding with new gaming company Phoenix Guild

by Mike Schramm (Jul 10th, 2012)

Jason Citron was one of the iPhone's first big name developers. He and partner Danielle Cassley created a game called Aurora Feint way back in the early days of the App Store, and while that game didn't do as well as hoped, the duo and their backers eventually catapulted that title into its own ...

How to distribute Kickstarter apps: Ask Apple

by Mike Schramm (May 16th, 2012)

Republique is an upcoming iOS title that's made a lot of noise by getting funded on Kickstarter recently, to the tune of half a million dollars, but I've had one nagging question about it: How exactly are they going to distribute the app to all of their backers? The most obvious solution would ...

Deepworld launches Kickstarter project to help fund a Mac beta

by Mike Schramm (Apr 23rd, 2012)

When I first met the guys making Deepworld, a 2D sandbox-style building game similar to Minecraft, at GDC in March, I told them that the project would be bigger than they thought. They do have extensive experience developing software and servers, but running a game this big requires a ...

Peel iOS remote raises $16 million in funding

by Mike Schramm (May 3rd, 2011)

We've posted about the Peel universal IR remote before. It's an interesting setup using a third-party unit that looks almost like a pear, designed to fit right into your living room wirelessly. It connects to an iOS app and turns your iDevice into a universal remote for any other units you ...

Apperian picks up first enterprise iFund payout

by Mike Schramm (Mar 30th, 2011)

The iFund has been pretty influential ever since it was announced a couple of years ago -- it's a pool of money set up by Apple and a few other companies to support and grow companies that are contributing to the iOS ecosystem. It's been growing along with Apple's platform, and now the fund has ...

Dreams, teams and the Color app

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 24th, 2011)

The latest app making a big buzz seems to be one simply called Color. Why the hoopla about what is, at best, a location-based photo sharing app? Because they raised a whopping US$41 million dollars in funding before even launching. Before you say "bubble 2.0," let's take a look at what Color ...

Trade Nations dev picks up new funding, former Xbox exec Ed Fries

by Mike Schramm (Mar 23rd, 2011)

Here's another iPhone dev hitting the jackpot. Developer Z2Live is the company behind the hit iPhone social game Trade Nations, and it's picked up what's probably a nice chunk of change in a round of funding from VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Unfortunately, the actual total of funding hasn't ...

Rovio picks up $42 million in first funding round

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2011)

Rovio, the makers of Angry Birds, has nabbed a total of $42 million in a first round of venture capitalist funding. This isn't necessarily quite that big a payday for the company -- while that's obviously a lot of money, the company has reportedly already pulled in about $70 million from app ...

Digital Chocolate picks up $12 million in funding round, mostly from Intel

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2011)

Digital Chocolate is one of the biggest iPhone developers that no one talks about much, but maybe that'll change now that the company has picked up a whopping $12 million in venture capital. The company behind a huge amount of iOS titles of all kinds (with more than 100 million mobile downloads ...

iPod nano watch kits nab almost $1 million on Kickstarter

by Steven Sande (Dec 17th, 2010)

Does anyone out there want to go into business with me with a design for an iPod nano watch kit? MINIMAL is a design house that decided to fund the development of a line of iPod nano 6G watch kits through Kickstarter. If you're not familiar with that site, it's where you can send your pet project up ...

Evernote hits 5 million users

by Mike Schramm (Nov 11th, 2010)

Cloud memory service Evernote has reached 5 million users and continues to grow, according to an official statement on the company's blog. The service is gaining tens of thousands of new users per day and has recently seen its highest daily revenue from premium users, plus big jumps off of Apple ...