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App Review: Temple Run by Imangi Studios, LLC

Another mobile game that’s been going around Ryerson University is Temple Run by Imangi Studios, LLC. The objective of this fast-paced, action game is to run from evil monkeys along a path, while trying to find the hidden treasure by collecting as many coins as you can. Your character defaults as a male adventurer; however you can earn or buy coins for power ups such as: a temporary boost of...

Apr 10th

App Review: Draw Something by OMGPOP

Since its inception in March, Draw Something by OMGPOP has taken the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, and pretty much every app user by storm. Over the week, my Facebook news feed has been bombarded with numerous status updates on people’s phone batteries dying and withdrawal symptoms from this game but it seems to be all worth it. Due to the app’s super addictive nature,...

Apr 2nd

What Makes the User Install Your App?

Using My Virtual Girlfriend Lite by WET Productions Inc. as an example, here’s some helpful advice when looking to optimize your App-Store page for users - less price. We used a total weight of 5 for each variable shown on the Infographic. Screen Shot had the heaviest impact at 4.8 on a users decision to install an app. Pictures play a big role in a users decision, a good way to view this is by...

Mar 28th

Jump Jump by Active8

During my TTC commute this morning, I started playing Jump Jump by Activ8 Game studios Co., Ltd. The instructions in the game were very clear; however they were very long and it felt like a drag to read. Essentially the objective of this game is to navigate your tiki man with diagonal arrows to collect all the fruit on your floating, cubed platform, all the while trying to avoid the random falling...

Mar 27th

App Review: Candy Train by PopCap Games

This week, I reviewed Candy Train by PopCap Games. Originally, I was going to review Peggle - one of my favorite PopCap games of all time, but I recently lost my phone and got a new one so perhaps next time! The goal of Candy Train is to accumulate as many points as you can by tapping the screen to guide your train. Every time you tap, you are able to change the direction of your train track to...

Mar 15th

App Review: Paper Glider Para Drop by Neon Play

This app is exactly as the name suggests - para drop. It’s simple to play the game: tap your screen to drop your little para-man out of his moving plane, and tap your screen again to open his parachute for a successful landing down onto the targeted trampoline below. Failure to open his parachute or hitting the target will result in the game displaying: “splat!” - a loss of 1 of...

Mar 7th

Unity3D SDK is Now Available

The long awaited Unity3D Plug-in for Tapgage has finally arrived and is available. We have partnered up with Prime31 to bring you a Unity3D plug-in for your Applications and Games. You can download the Plugin from Prime31’s website. You will also receive a $50 Advertising Credit for Integrating your Unity3D app / game with Tapgage. If you have any questions or feedback please feel free to...

Feb 28th

Tapgage releases new SDK and updates Dashboard

Tapgage has been working closely with it’s developers to help improve the monetization and distribution services it provides to it’s developers. We have been working closely with many developers and listening to their needs. Here are some of the updates that you will notice: The SDK has been tweaked with a new UI design and Logo. This can be easily change to match the UI of the apps...

Feb 20th

Interview with Oleksandr of AppMania

Oleksandr is a producer at Appmania as well as the creator of the Game Developers group on LinkedIn which boasts 41,000 plus users and counting. The “Game Developers Group” is an arena where gaming industry professionals can network, collaborate and share ideas. Where did your passion for gaming come from? Everything happened by chance. Ten years ago or so, as a young architect I was...

Feb 9th

Dec 24th

Press: Bizmey rebrands itself to Tapgage →

Dec 20th

AndroidTO October 26, 2011

Catch Bizmey at AndroidTO on October 26, 2011. Salman Habib (Co-Founder & Vice President of Business Development) will be a panelist for the topic “Building Business On Mobile”.

Oct 21st

Watch

Co-Founder Salman Habib (Vice President of Business Development) on Untether.tv with Rob Woodbridge

Oct 5th

Bizmey's Future

Bizmey started off over a year ago thinking it would make some distruptive changes in the monetization of Virtual Currency. However that did not happen due to certain circumstances such as Facebook Credits and Apple banning Incentivized Installs. That did not scare this young team away but allowed us to think it through and change our business plan. In the start up world you could call it a...

Jul 15th

New York Mobile Gaming Summit

Come check out CEO (Arfan Chaudhry) speak at Mobile Gaming Summit on July 4, 2011. The summit is being held by General Assembly (Incubator / Co working space) in New York. The Panel discussion he will be speaking about will be about “Monetization: The 2011 Landscape” Register here: http://nyc.mogasummit.com/register/

Jul 1st