Posts Tagged ‘nimblebit’

1. Will the nature of the AppStore Kill Zynga’s cloning strategy

   February 14, 2012

   Is Zynga about to learn that its aggressive, plagiarising tactics, honed on Facebook, won’t transfer to a platform where fans can give their feedback?

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   Posted in: Marketing, Opinion

   Tagged with: cloning, dream heights, nimblebit, tiny tower, tribes, zynga

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2. Zynga’s cloning protection racket

   January 25, 2012

   Zynga has just launched a game Dream Heights which is a direct clone of Tiny Tower from independent developers Nimblebit.

   Now it turns out that Nimblebit turned down an acquisition offer from Zynga.

   For me, that puts the cloning in a different light.

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   Posted in: Opinion

   Tagged with: nimblebit, threat, tiny tower, zynga

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3. My top games of 2011

   January 4, 2012

   Four games have kept me coming back to them in 2011. Three of them were free-to-play, two were on iOS, one on Facebook and one a client MMO on the web. Not one of them was on the PS3 or the Wii that I still keep under my television. There were lots of good console [...]

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   Posted in: Sandbox

   Tagged with: alistair aitcheson, darkwind, games, greedy bankers, nimblebit, psychic software, sam redfern, spry fox, tiny tower, triple town

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4. The digital transition–Who is a hero and who is a Zero

   November 10, 2011

   If you’re reading this as it is posted, I should be taking the stage at the London Games Conference to convince 200 gaming industry bigwigs of the companies that I think are going to be winners or losers as digital outstrips physical as the primary way we distribute and experience games.

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   Posted in: Opinion, Past Events

   Tagged with: amazon, gaikai, handheld, london games conference, mmo, nimblebit, playstation home, subscription, thq, zynga

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5. Is iOS game Tiny Tower on track to make $3 million in its first year?

   July 14, 2011

   On holiday in France, I’ve been playing Nimblebit Tiny Tower on my wife’s iPad. It’s a marvellous game (like a free-to-play version of Little Computer People, if you are old enough to remember that), and I’m busy analysing exactly why it is such a perfect example of how to build a successful, uncynical, enjoyable free-to-play game.

   Before I did that, I wanted to check that the game was as commercially successful as I thought it was. I emailed developer Ian Marsh to ask him. He very kindly shared with me this insightful public information.

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   Posted in: Analysis, Featured, Sales

   Tagged with: free-to-play, ian marsh, iOS, iphone, nimblebit, revenues, sales, statistics, tiny tower, whales

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