Happy New Year!
As 2009 comes to an end, we want to thank our community and friends for all their support. It has been quite an exciting year and we are working hard to make 2010 even more interesting.
Looking Back
No New Years post would be complete without a retrospective, so let's have a quick look at what happened in GameResort's first full year…
Downhill Bowling®
The iPhone version of our popular web game was our first commercial release. After some great reviews, sales really started picking up when we added a free 'lite' version. The game was also featured on the iTunes App Store, for which we are very grateful.
Highlights include reaching top spots in Germany and Japan, and making the ilounge.com 'Top 100 iPhone Games of 2009' list.
Biplane - Wings of Raccoon
Trying out a different genre, Biplane was our second stab at an iPhone game. While we were pretty happy with the initial game, we used players feedback to improve the device calibration and threw in a new level with bigger missiles for good measure.
Highlights include making the US top 100 list and seeing the game on display at Unity's GDC booth.
Flip Cup
While not a resounding commercial success, we definitely had fun working on this. It is as much a physics toy as a game, it is meant to distract for a few minutes at the time. We have also released a web version, which is especially fun to play using a pressure sensitive graphics tablet.
Castle Warriors
Learning from previous projects, this has been our most ambitious production to date. It is also the first time we spent a lot of effort creating a proper promo video, which really helped make it stand out in a sea of new games on release day. Highlights include #1 all apps in Russia and making the US top 100 despite the flood of apps (over 1300) hitting the store on the same day.
Website
Our website has gone live and has already been completely updated once… expect it to evolve further as we bring more games and functionality to your browser.
Looking Forward
Our next title is going to be a short production and it will be released as a free, ad supported game. It is a bit of a test project and your feedback will be much appreciated once it is released. More on this soon…
Let us wrap this up with a 'just one more thing' moment. Our big title for 2010 is going to be a sequel to Downhill Bowling®. It is going to be groovy.
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