Riptide team meeting December 13: Mike Montgomery
Every two weeks we have a company meeting to update the team on all things Riptide Games. At the end of each meeting we select one member to present something they’ve found interesting or worthwhile to share with the group.
This week’s presentation was from Mike Montgomery, our Chief Creative Officer. These are the links that he shared with the team, along with a short explanation:
Seeing as the holidays are almost upon us, I wanted to take a look back at 2011, and also a look forward to 2012.
Before we get to that, I wanted to share a few comments and links with you.
First off, I can’t stress enough the importance of an app icon.
“When browsing the App Store, all you really have to guide you is the name of the app and the icon. Based on those two pieces of information you have to decide if the app seems interesting enough to read more about and possibly download. And so many developers still don’t get this.”
Quote by: Unknown…
Icon Design Best practices:
These are some great resources for any mobile game designer and are well worth the read:
http://www.pixelresort.com/
http://blog.marketnet.com/
Mobile Freemium Games: Women Thrifty, Men Binge:
I came across an interesting article this week, discussing the growing iOS and Android app economy. Did you know that freemium games are leading all app revenue models and now account for more than 65% of app revenue?
Check it out:
http://blog.flurry.com/?Tag=
iPhone Eye Candy:
It’s not often that I come across an iOS app that makes me stop everything and search for the designer who created the artwork. That was definitely the case with these 2 games.
Mad Rush: http://itunes.apple.com/app/
Jelly Defence: http://itunes.apple.com/app/
New Releases:
What do I think users will be playing this holiday season? These are my top picks:
Kinectimals:
The popular Microsoft Xbox Kinect game comes to iOS. I predict this will be very popular with the kiddies this year.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/
Console/PC:
All I want for Christmas is Skylanders….ok, I couldn’t wait and picked it up the other day.
Rebuild:
Rebuilding a city after the zombie apocalypse and manage resources while defending against undead attacks = Awesome!
http://itunes.apple.com/app/
Coming Soon on iOS:
This just looks hilarious and is right up my alley.
iPhone App Review, 2011 Rewind:
As a mobile game company it is important as we look the future, to also take a look back. This is a list of the iTunes 2011 Rewind of the top 10 apps of 2011. These developers are definitely doing something right. I would love to see what’s under their trees this year.
Top 10 Paid iPhone Apps (2011)
- Angry Birds
- Fruit Ninja
- Angry Birds Seasons
- Cut the Rope
- Tiny Wings
- Angry Birds Rio
- Words With Friends
- Camera+
- Doodle Jump
- Plants Vs. Zombies
Top 10 Free iPhone Apps (2011)
- Pandora Radio
- Words With Friends Free
- Angry Birds Free
- Skype
- Netflix
- Angry Birds Rio Free
- Groupon
- Fruit Ninja Lite
Top 10 Grossing iPhone Apps (2011)
- Tap Zoo
- Angry Birds
- Zombie Farm
- Tap Pet Hotel
- Poker by Zynga
- Smurfs’ Village
- Texas Poker
- Haypi kingdom
- Infinity Blade
- Motion X GPS Drive