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Top 3 Marketing Tips for Beating the App Store Blackbox on 2009-12-03
- marketing strategies work in helping build businesses by creating game “franchises” rather than just selling games. Of all the marketing strategies I’ve seen, it seems there are three core tenants that should be a part of any iPhone marketing campaign.
  
  Generate buzz before the game is released
  Create a cross-promotion network alliance
  Leverage your existing fan base
- Marketing Tip #1: Generate Buzz and Hype Before the Game is Released
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- - Apple is to blame to a great degree. The company directly intimidates developers by banning any communication about an app or game until it is live in the store. W
  - nd all this is especially important on the iPhone. The App Store is extremely binary in the sense that it’s all about making the “top lists.” We all know that Apple runs an algorithm to determine how “hot” an app is. And the best time to be considered “hot” is when a game is first released. So by building the initial buzz around a game appropriately, you can boost the flood of your initial downloads and drive algorithm calculations that vastly increase the chance of breaking into the “top” lists.
  - Minigore built a tremendous amount of buzz by releasing sexy screenshots and game play videos on various iPhone gaming forums weeks before the game’s actual release. This built up hype for the game so successfully, that the initial download volume shot Minigore up to the top games list for the month:
  - Consider also the success of Geared, the number one ranked game in August and September. Bryan Mitchell, the mastermind behind the game, didn’t just build hype for his game by posting on forums. Bryan piled on well-placed advertisements. He purchased ads on SomethingAwful.com and TouchArcade, whose audiences love puzzle and iPhone games. This paid campaign appeared to drive the success of Geared considerably.
  - Marketing Tip #2: Create a Cross-Promotional Network
  - This is typically done through a “More Games” link via a game’s main menu. See an example below:
  - At PlayHaven, we are building out a cross-promotional network of our own to save our partners’ time on business development. We categorize every game by its unique characteristics, analyze fans’ preferences, and “recommend” games that they may also like:
  - Marketing Tip #3: Leverage Your Fans
  - A recent survey from AdMob found that 46 percent of all iPhone users discover new applications based on word-of-mouth recommendations.
  - This is really where the concept of our PlayHaven Community Platform comes in. We want to empower iPhone developers to establish a relationship with their fans as a critical step towards turning their games into a lasting franchise. I’m not going to sell you on the benefits of our platform here. You can read about them on Pocket Gamer, Slide to Play, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and bub.blicio.us.
Studio Ghibli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2009-12-02
- Studio Ghibli, Inc. (株式会社スタジオジブリ, Kabushiki-kaisha Sutajio Jiburi^?) is a Japanese animation film studio, and previously was a subsidiary of Tokuma Shoten.
Save Money on Gas, Cell Phones, Cell Phone Plans and Credit Cards at BillShrink. on 2009-12-01
- Start saving money in under a minute
  
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  Live Feed: Someone in austin, TX just found the cheapest gas ($2.35) near their home
- BillShrink is an independent service providing unbiased and personalized recommendations to save you money.
Yeck Entertainment on 2009-11-30
- YECK specializes in the development of games for PC、 Portable platforms and console platforms.
  
  We possess broad expertise in full game area as following :
- - PC game
  
  - Console game
  
  - iPhone game
  
  - Providing game production solutions
  
  - Game design & production documents
  
  - Flash game
  
  - Localization & testing
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- - - 2D concept design
    
    - Illustration
    
    - Graphic Design
    
    - 3D next-gen artwork
    
    - Animation
    
    - Marketing materials
    
    - Different platform assets porting
    
    　(ex: PS3 models to NDSL ones)
KOffice.org » Krita on 2009-11-29
- Krita
  
  Krita is a creative application for raster images. Whether you want to create from scratch or work with existing images, Krita is for you. You can work with photo’s, scanned images or start for a blank slate. Krita supports most graphics tablets out of the box.
KOffice.org on 2009-11-29
- KOffice is an integrated office suite built on the KDE platform.
  
  It utilizes free and open standards like OpenDocument for its document formats, component communication and component embedding.
  
  KOffice is free software
- KOffice is an integrated office suite built on the KDE platform.
  
  It utilizes free and open standards like OpenDocument for its document formats, component communication and component embedding.
  
  KOffice is free software.
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- - About KOffice
    
    KOffice is an integrated office suite built on the KDE platform.
    
    It utilizes free and open standards like OpenDocument for its document formats, component communication and component embedding.
    
    KOffice is free software
手機遊戲設計師要兼備熱情與耐性 | 家庭 | 副刊 | 蘋果日報 | 20090222 | 昔日新聞 | 壹蘋果網絡 on 2009-11-27
- 起薪約2萬7000元左右，一個僅2到3人的設計團隊，約3到6個月能完成2個遊戲上市
- 曾經在日本知名遊戲公司NAMCO擔任設計師，現為Agｕn&Milk的執行長蔡光程表示，手機遊戲就是讓人殺時間用的，「若上廁所時順手拿來玩，誰會想研究複雜的遊戲規則？」所以一定要懂得跨出電腦遊戲的領域來設計。
Home page | Babelgum on 2009-11-26
Your Complete Family Safety Solution | Life360.com on 2009-11-24
- Choose from a set of services that protect your family, identity, and property. Do things like order your child an Emergency ID and secure your identity all in one place.
The Entertainment Software Association - News Releases on 2009-11-24
- STEM NATIONAL VIDEO GAME COMPETITION: ESA and ITI are also working with leading education stakeholders on the competition, including The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, Games for Change, and E-Line Ventures. ESA, ITI and their partners will challenge America's best and brightest, including children, to enter the competition with ideas that can be designed into web-executable, browser-based, STEM-related computer and video games in three age-based categories: 4 to 8 year olds, 8 to 12 year olds and 12 to 16 year olds. In addition to funding, ESA, ITI and their member companies will provide judges, mentorship, and technical expertise to the winning teams to maximize their utility, outreach and effectiveness.
  
  Prize winners will receive a total of $300,000 and their games will be used in school and community settings, with a particular emphasis on reaching historically underserved populations including girls and minority students.
  
  In early 2010, ESA, ITI and their partners will make a formal announcement of the competition's details including eligibility rules and entry procedures. Winners will be announced at the E3 Expo, the leading video game industry trade show event, which takes place June 15-17, 2010.