Here’s a poster my friend Brian put together with my encouragement last year. There’s some subtle and somewhat biting ideas behind this about post-apocalyptic neo-communism, or something. But I can’t remember what they were.. must be the whiskey. We had a laugh making it anyway.
In case you don’t know, the Evan Reds are a left wing faction in Darkwind. They are possibly tofu-eating, 4×4 driving pseudo-liberals. I’m not sure, it’s hard to tell in a darkly-humorous distopian future.
I have noticed a big increase in 3rd party game APIs for Android and iOS lately. It seems that the competition is really starting to hot up as they all scramble for market-share. Since they’re all pretty much hinging on social features, I can see why the battle is on.
Over the past month, I have been contacted by: Swarm, Hooked Media (Wasabi), HeyZap, and TapJoy – all offering variations on the theme of ‘social discovery’, leaderboards, etc. The stakes for them are bigger than they are for us 