While the June 1st deadline we set for ourselves to complete our game grows ever nearer, we’ve had to take some time away from the game to get ChiTownFestivals up to speed for the 2013 season. It doesn’t take a ton of time.  But going through and finding the dates and times for the events more »

Learn Blackjack 2.0 has been in the iTunes store for a couple weeks now.  It’s doing great, though despite our in-app prompts for reviews, not a lot of people are giving us much feedback yet.  But if downloads and in-app purchases are any indication, it seems like the new version is exactly what people are more »

Well, it’s a little after our Jan. 1 goal – but we finally finished Learn Blackjack 2.0.  Lookin’ back on the old build – it’s crazy that so many people downloaded it.  The new version is so much better!  We updated all the graphics so it looks sharp.  We added a blackjack simulator so you more »

A few posts back, we mentioned how we’d started using AppAnnie and AppCod.es to help us better target our apps.  In case any of you are wondering how the experiment is going… it’s going very very well.  App downloads are up over 50% across the board.  But that said, there are some other factors at more »

Our newest app ever is up in the iTunes store.  Funny Status Updater – A Mad Libs Style Status Message Generator for Facebook is pretty much exactly what that very exact title would leave you to believe.  We’re pretty excited about it, and so is at least 47% of the country.  Find out more!

Fresh off our newfound interest in app keyword research (see the previous post), we’ve got several updates out now for our apps.  But beyond just upgrading our keyword list, we made improvements to the apps themselves which are listed below.  But aren’t you guys supposed to be building a game you ask?  Well, yes.  But, more »

For awhile now we’ve been trying to figure out a better way to do keyword research and track app rankings for our iphone apps.  Like most people, we used the Google Keyword Tool from Analytics a lot.  But obviously what people search for in Google and what people are searching for in the app store more »

Our Chicago Festival Finder app is not only live and in the app store, we’ve already updated it once to add even ways to search through the festivals – and we’ve got another update on it’s way! As you’ve probably gleaned, it’s the companion to our chitownfestivals.com website – where we hope to provide Chicagoans more »

Our client app, Wiccan Sabbats, is live in the iTunes store.  It’s an information app with a unique navigational system.  We’re pretty proud of it, and excited that it’s up in the store.  Find out all the details on our site here!  Pretty cool.

We just sent off the final version of our first client app!  Once it’s officially up in the iTunes store – we’ll share all the deets.  But we’re pretty proud of it – it’s a sleek, customized, universal app that’ll be coming your way soon. Now we’ll finally get our noses back to the grindstone more »