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Daily iPhone App: Sketch Nation Studio opens up game dev on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Apr 20th, 2012)

Sketch Nation Studio started out as Sketch Nation Shooter last year, a "game" on the App Store that actually let you make your own shooter game by using scanned-in pictures and a few scripted sets of rules. As creator Nitzan Wilnai told me at GDC earlier this year, he heard from a lot of users ...

Sketch Nation Studio allows to make your own game, and sell it

by Mike Schramm (Mar 6th, 2012)

I've met with Nitzan Wilnai at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) several times. His Engineous Games has grown over the years. The group recently released Sketch Nation Shooter to great success. It lets you build a shooter title by uploading or drawing your own art. As of this writing, it ...

Over 800 Sketch Nation Shooter games created so far on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Apr 23rd, 2010)

Ever since I first played Sketch Nation Shooter back at GDC, this is what I've been waiting for -- a chance to see what the masses are doing with this wacky little game creation tool on the iPhone. In the app, players can make up their own graphics and assign their own rules to enemies and items ...

GDC 2010: Hands-on with Sketch Nation Shooter

by Mike Schramm (Mar 15th, 2010)

When I was reminded of its name at GDC, I couldn't recall hearing much about Engineous Games. It's the development studio founded by Nitzan Wilnai, a former software developer at EA and Yahoo who's gone to work making iPhone games for himself. But I did recall Engenious' first title, Tatomic, which ...