Archives for: March 2010
15/03/10
Johny-K vs Backflip Round 1
If you didn`t hear, listen! It`s worth to know more about it!
Johnny-K, developer of Ragdoll Canon, has finally sent the request to AppleStore about rip-off of his game - Ragdoll Blaster.
What all is about - Backflip used Johnny-K`s work for commercial use - Johnny-K developed game, art&style, level-design, character-design - and together - art-style with ragdoll-gameplay - is Johnny-K`s visit card nowadays.
How much - 2m$ are at stake. Apple Store* has already sold over 2m$ of copies, using Johhny-K work. (*Backflip got 70%).
Since we are talking about direct sales - users pay to content provider directly, and about real complex work - Johnny-K has a good chance to shout-down their game at least, or shut-down their business at best in the case if they will not agree to pay to him (but I guess they will 'fight' first - 6-figures numbers worth it), especially I bet they were aware of that this would happened.
Progrees for now: Backflip hired a Lawyer to 'deal' with Johnny-K. But looks like they went too cheap - the layer has no any knowledge of IT specifics =) I assume Johnny will continue pressure Apple to go further, till it or Backflip will do what they should do.
10/03/10
Announcing Mochi Social & the Mochi GAME Developer Fund
Link: http://mochiland.com/articles/announcing-mochi-social-the-mochi-game-developer-fund
Introducing Mochi Social
We’ve launched the private beta of Mochi Social, a platform which gives you all the tools you need to build easily distributable social games. Familiar actions such as inviting friends, sending gifts, or posting to a stream are quick and easy, and automatically work across social networks. Features of Mochi Social include:
* Social features integrated directly into the game, such as friend invites, gifts and messaging
* In game notifications to message all your fans, no matter where they are
* A single API to access Facebook, MySpace and Twitter networks at once, with more networks to be integrated in the future. Reach an even wider audience by allowing your players to interact with their friends across multiple networks
* Social graph and fully customizable data access and storage. Access gamer profile to get stats about them and your game, save or retrieve levels or other game information, and access gamer social graphs
Read more here: http://www.mochimedia.com/social
The Mochi GAME Developer Fund
We’ve announced a $10 million Mochi GAME Developer Fund dedicated to helping promising Flash and social game developers support their games through sponsorship, licensing and publishing deals. The fund will assist small Flash game development studios and independent game developers worldwide in building world-class games and businesses.
For details and application visit: http://www.mochimedia.com/fund
We are very excited to finally unveil both of these announcements as the product of many months of hard work from entire Mochi Media team. As always, we’re looking forward to your thoughts and comments. Please let us know what you think!Cash stats - Febrary 2010
Hey Guys,
I suppose now everyone at Flash Summit? Except me... =) I have work to do without it - Casual Connect had provided me with enough work. Just yesterday I finally sorted out all tasks from CC.
Red Storm for iPhone is almost ready - here is last month build:
2 games sold at FGL - next week will be released. But for now - the shortest month stats:
Total by Games: 835$, Total by Portal: 841$, Total by Micro: 204$.
Casual Connect Europe 2010 Wrapup
Yet another balmy Casual Connect Europe has come to the end. We were told by many that 2010 was the most productive European show ever, and with 30% growth we can see why: new opportunities are all around us!
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