Aurora Feint signs up developers for its iPhone social apps platform
A gaggle of indie iPhone game developers have rallied around Aurora Feint’s social game platform, dubbed OpenFeint, and they’re excited about how it can be used to cross promote games to iPhone users.
In particular, the developers have embraced a new way to sell and discover games on the iPhone which is being introduced as a new feature on Monday.
The new feature is dubbed One Touch iPromote. Game players will now be able to join each… Continue Reading
Scoreloop launches social game platform for iPhone
So many people are creating games for the iPhone that there’s cottage industry emerging to help them create their applications more easily.
The latest is Scoreloop, a Munich, Germany-based startup that has created a platform for developers to build social features into iPhone games. Today, the company is launching a software development kit that developers can use to add new multiplayer features.
I can see the logic. The chances of any developer producing a tremendously popular game… Continue Reading
Aurora Feint to share iPhone social networking tools with game developers
Aurora Feint has managed to produce some of the most popular games on the iPhone. Today, it’s going to share some of what it’s learned with other companies at the iGames Summit in San Francisco.
The Burlingame, Calif.-based company — maker of the hit game Aurora Feint: The Beginning and Aurora Feint II: The Arena– will share tools that make it easy to add social networking features to iPhone games. The company estimates that it can… Continue Reading
Aurora Feint II: The Arena brings asynchronous online multi-player gaming to the iPhone
Since the launch of the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch in July, there have apparently only been two games that have racked up over 2,000 reviews while maintaining a 4-star or above average (out of 5 stars): Tap Tap Revenge and Aurora Feint: The Beginning, says Aurora Feint investor and chairman Peter Relan. What that means is that a lot of people have really enjoyed these games, and in Aurora Feint’s case,… Continue Reading