Matthew Hall was recently contacted by Gamezebo to contribute to an interesting and unusual article.
In case you all haven’t heard Robert Nay, an 8th Grader, managed to top the charts with his game Bubble Ball. Jim Squires from Gamezebo contacted a group of prominent developers asking for advice for his future!
“The particular piece of advice I gave is one I actually learnt from an employee of Valve.” says Matthew. “They bring in new testers regularly to test their games, while the developers watch behind glass. It can be quite cringeworthy seeing people stuck again and again, but clearly reveals flaws in their games – and the system works! Even though I’m just a one-man-band studio, this kind of end user testing has been very beneficial to the development of my own games.”
Click HERE to visit Gamezebo.com and read the full article. Good luck with your career Robert!
Little Things has been featured by Games Radar in their “Top 50 iPad games of 2010”! We’re very happy to be featured alongside such app store highlights as Fruit Ninja HD, The Incident, Osmos and many more! It’s great that our little family game is able to appeal to the “hardcore” gamers of the world. Thanks Games Radar!
Click HERE to visit Games Radar to see the full list.
KlickTock is celebrating tonight as we’ve just passed 1.5 million downloads of Doodle Find! It’s been a long road since Doodle Find 1.0’s release in May 2010. We’ve listened to our players and continued to improve the play experience for everyone. As well as the new objects and new languages added to the free version, Doodle Find Pro has been updated with two additional game modes. More to come in the future!
Thanks to everyone who helped us to achieve this amazing milestone. Please head over to our Facebook page to join in the celebrations!
TheAppleGoogle.com have posted an interview featuring Matthew Hall of KlickTock.
In the interview, Matthew discusses the success and origins of Little Things on iPad, and offers insight into the current state of the App Store.
“It was developed over a very long period of time. I had the idea about 5 years ago when Hidden Object games first started appearing in the marketplace. I wanted to try to recapture the fascination I had with seek and find books when I was a kid.”
Click HERE to visit TheAppleGoogle to read the full interview.
Very pleased to announce that Little Things is Apple’s iPad App of the Week! It’ll be featured on the App Store (in USA and Canada) throughout this week. As a result Little Things is racing up the chart!
Thanks to Apple for recognising our game!
Don’t forget about the opening sale at just US$2.99. You have just a few more days to pick up Little Things at this opening price before returning to it’s regular price of US$4.99.
Little Things for iPad is being released today, and is currently rolling out around the world. It’s available now in Australia, NZ and South East Asia and will be available in all other territories later today.
There’s a sale on for the first few days of release, so jump in quick and you can be playing Little Things for just US$2.99.
In addition, to celebrate the release, we’re offering discounts on Super Search 60 Pro and Doodle Find Pro.
I’m unsure as to how I missed this news, but Little Things was recently previewed on AppAdvice.com. They’re really excited about our upcoming title – as are we.
AppAdvice also has a really amazing iPhone/iPad app which makes viewing their news a snap!
Click HERE to visit AppAdvice.com and read the article.
All the family can enjoy Little Things, the innovative Hidden Object game for iPad®. Search colorful collages built from thousands of little things. Little Things features randomized lists so that you get a different game each time you play. Find over 7000 cleverly hidden objects, solve 99 jigsaw puzzles and collect 10 challenging badges.
* Fun for the whole family.
* Incredible artwork.
* Hours of gameplay.
* Thousands of little things to find.
Another quick approval from Apple sees the release of Super Search 60 for iPhone 4 and iPad just days after it was submitted.
Just like Doodle Find, Super Search 60 is now a universal app featuring high resolution graphics for iPhone 4’s retina display and iPad. Existing users of Super Search 60 and Super Search 60 Pro just have to update their application to reap the benefits. Users who update to iOS 4 will also be able to use the new multitasking features which allows them to take a call and resume the game once they’re finished.
Super Search 60 also implements Apple’s new “iAd” advertising network which will be going live from July 1st.
Here’s a collection of screenshots from the iPad version. Note the extra column of objects!
