Posts Tagged ‘tiny tower’

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

   5 Comments

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

   19 Comments

3. Zynga’s shameless cloning of my favourite game of 2011

   January 25, 2012

   Tiny Tower was one of my favourite games of 2011. Zynga must have noticed its success because they have just launched an exact clone. Check out the open letter from Nimblebit below.

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   Posted in: Opinion

   Tagged with: infringement, ip, tiny tower, zynga

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4. I’ve finished Tiny Tower!

   January 18, 2012

   After six months of pretty continuous playing, I am pleased to say that I’ve finished Tiny Tower.

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   Posted in: Sandbox

   Tagged with: tiny tower

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5. 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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6. 9 games make at least $20 million on the Appstore in 2011

   December 20, 2011

   How much money can you make on iOS? That’s a pretty key question if you are trying to work out if it is worth your effort to develop for the platform.
   At least 9 games made $20 million in revenue in 2011…

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   Posted in: 50 questions, Sales

   Tagged with: appstore, infinity blade, iOS, iphone, statistics, tiny tower, top grossing

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7. Whales, True Fans and the Ethics of Free-to-play games

   September 22, 2011

   The inexorable rise of free-to-play gaming has led to a vast array of criticism of the free-to-play model.
   A recent comment on Twitter from Jurie Horneman has helped me understand the fundamental challenges in free-to-play games, why so many people think it is unethical, and how to reconcile making money in free-to-play with making high-quality, entertaining games.

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   Posted in: Featured, Opinion

   Tagged with: free-to-play, freemium, tiny tower, true fans, whales

   13 Comments