If you're just starting out, you might find this post on the WinterWolves & Tycoon Games Blog helpful. Five pieces of good advice for new indie developers.
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Alawar Entertainment Releases Snark Busters: Welcome to the Club for the PC
All-new hidden object adventure sends players on an unusual quest
ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 29 – Do you have what it takes to find the Snark? Find out today in Snark Busters: Welcome to the Club, a new PC game from leading casual game publisher Alawar Entertainment. In this imaginative hidden object adventure, players help heroine Kira Robinson secure a spot in the elite Snark Busting Club by hunting down the elusive Snark, a creature few have seen—and no one has caught. The game can be downloaded from http://www.alawar.com for $9.95. A trial version offering one hour of free gameplay is available as well.
In this colorful game, traveling through mirrors and into inside-out and upside-down worlds is commonplace, and every object you discover has a hidden use. Diligent players will decipher the clues, solve the puzzles, and piece together the tools needed to track the stealthy Snark. The game's seven chapters feature dozens of puzzles, over a dozen mini-games, 30 animated locations, and a light, comical storyline that ends with an unexpected twist.
"Snark Busters is bright, colorful, humorous, and full of surprises," says Kirill Plotnikov, vice-president of publishing of Alawar Entertainment. "It's also packed with unique puzzle-solving challenges, as the actions of the player on one side of a mirror can affect how things appear on the other side. We believed the market was ready for something innovative and fun, and we've delivered it."
Key features of Snark Busters: Welcome to the Club include:
- Seven chapters
- 30 animated locations
- Dozens of puzzles
- Over a dozen mini-games
- A captivating, humorous story
Snark Busters Screenshots:
About Alawar Entertainment
Founded in 1999, Alawar Entertainment specializes in the development, publication and distribution of casual games. The company has published more than 200 casual PC titles, including some of the industry's leading downloadable releases, such as the Farm Frenzy®, Hyperballoid®, Magic Encyclopedia®, Craze® and Treasures of Montezuma® games. In addition to the PC, Alawar's titles are available on the iPhone, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, Mac and J2ME platform. Soon, the company will enter the social games and MMO markets and expand onto other leading-edge platforms.
Today, consumers in more than 60 countries can purchase Alawar's games through leading online portals, distribution networks and retail outlets. Moreover, the company is the leading distributor of casual games in Eastern Europe , where more than 2,000 Web sites and major portals use Alawar's turnkey affiliate program to acquire a game catalog and earn additional revenue.
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Boston, Massachusetts – Independent developer Evan Beland announced today the successful launch of Match aPhoto, a unique game for the iPad and iPhone that allows users to play and interact with their photos in a new way. The game is an update of the card game known traditionally known as Concentration, Memory or Pairs. Match aPhoto allows you to take photos on the fly and add them directly into the game. Match aPhoto is free on the Apple App store as part of an introductory offer that will run through July 28th.
During the first 48 hours of the introductory offer more than 1400 users downloaded Match aPhoto in 39 app stores worldwide. Most notably in the Netherlands where at the time of this release Match aPhoto is ranked #2 in the kids games category and is the #56 most downloaded iPhone application.
Match aPhoto is fully customizable to help you remember what you want to remember. You can play with your photos or photos of anything you add to your device’s library and even add pictures on the go with the iPhone camera.
Some of the many features include:
* Six difficulty levels to suit any age or intellect
* Import photos from your device library or camera
* Easy import tool makes game pieces from your photos
* 200 picture perfect images in five categories to start you out
* Add match descriptions to remember, places, names or anything you like
* Quick peek to help out when interrupted
* Fun animations and sounds
* Import photos from your device library or camera
* Easy import tool makes game pieces from your photos
* 200 picture perfect images in five categories to start you out
* Add match descriptions to remember, places, names or anything you like
* Quick peek to help out when interrupted
* Fun animations and sounds
“Finally a game that I am interested in playing with the kids! …. We compete to see who can do it the fastest. The pictures are ones that interest them and I finally have them playing something that benefits their minds. Great job guys!” – TinyStar101 (Canada)
“Really enjoyed this app myself, especially with the “use your own photos” mode. My daughter absolutely loves it. I’ve had a hard time getting my phone back since showing it to her” – santoran (USA)
Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.1 or later
* 44.8 MB
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.1 or later
* 44.8 MB
Pricing and Availability:
As part of an introductory offer, Match aPhoto 1.1 is free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. To receive a free trial promotion code for reviewing purposes please send your contact information to Evan Beland.
As part of an introductory offer, Match aPhoto 1.1 is free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. To receive a free trial promotion code for reviewing purposes please send your contact information to Evan Beland.
Mr. Beland is an independent iPhone and iPad developer and contractor based in Boston, MA. Copyright (C) 2010 E. J. Beland. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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The game's author says:
This project started as a basic port of my last PC/Mac game "Spring Up!" but turned out to be a unique game (modified gameplay, higher resolution, different levels, multiplayer mode). I took into account the reviews of the original game and improved what needed to be improved.
From the official website:
Spring Up Harmony takes the best of Breakout and Pachinko and spices it up with 2D physics. Launch balls on color-matching items to clear the 30 levels of the game and collect the ten rewards. Use motors, fans, mechanisms, hanging objects and gravity to your advantage to catch the falling objects. Challenge a friend in the multi-player mode, where both players are playing on the same screen.
Screenshots:
Game trailer
Official Website
Spring Up Harmony on XBLA
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