Marmalade & Mirthwerx Team Up for Catch the Monkey

Posted on January 17, 2012 by LordYabo

Today Mirthwerx is proud to announce we will be working with Marmalade to publish Catch the Monkey to Android, Playbook, and other platforms.

Catch the Monkey is the adorable monkey tickling action game.  Players distract increasing kinds of monkeys with hilarious tools all in an effort to save the Farmer’s potato fields.

Marmalade is the maker of the best cross platform development tools for games.  We chose Marmalade for the creation of Catch the Monkey based on the maturity of the SDK, working in Visual Studio C++, and testing tools.  We plan to build on our Marmalade expertise in future titles.

Catch the Monkey will be in the App Store in Jan 2012, with other platforms to follow shortly.

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Submitted to Apple

Posted on January 14, 2012 by LordYabo

Mischievous adorable monkeys are about to be unleashed on your iPhone/iPod/iPad!

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The Pac-Man Problem of Game Testing

Posted on December 14, 2011 by LordYabo

For those that don’t know, there is no actual ending to the game Pac Man (or many other classic arcade games).  The game simply freezes once you beat the 256th level.  Why is this?  Because the game developers never tested the game that far.

When I first heard this, I thought it is a funny and somewhat ridiculous story.  Now that we’re in the final stretch before releasing, each day involves testing the game through multiple times on multiple devices.  It takes a very long time and is fairly tedious.

So Pac-Man team: I forgive you!  I completely understand, now, why you didn’t test that far in your game.

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Mobile Gaming Habits Survey

Posted on October 8, 2011 by LordYabo

We’ve put together a short 18 question survey to better understand you and your play habits.  We’ll use this information in designing features and future titles, so take a few moments to tell us what you think by going to:  Mobile Games Survey!

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Game Design: Does the world really need mobile Diablo Clones?

Posted on September 23, 2011 by LordYabo

In recent evenings I’ve gone through the app store role playing category.  There are about 800 games to wade through and I’ve been trying the ones that interest me.  After playing several, I’m struck by a consistent thought: Seriously, do we need Diablo clones on a mobile device?!

Read the answer

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